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Better Aqueduct and Medical Lab

Hopefully for the last time, I've updated the values on both buildings to be more balanced. This change also makes this mod compatible with my Workable Mountains mod.

Is this BNW?

@kevinjk Having played with this mod since my last comment, I can report:

The aqaduct buff is too much with the tradition finisher, with civs opting for tradition consistantly getting beastly capitals much sooner than they should (combo with the food trade route). Compare the Temple of Artemis which only gives +10% and is still saught after.

I think the problem with the aqaduct is that it's only meant for large cities, and the attempt to make it 'useful' only further buffs big cities (who didn't need it). There are always going to be buildings certain strategies avoid, and for wide empires the aqaduct is one of them. I think a +1 or +2 food buff is more controllable for tall.

The med lab buff is also poorly targeted, since it requires a hospital, which only tall builds. +3 science in a tall city (or +3f, really) is useless at this point in the game. I would suggest giving the +15% food bonus to the med lab instead. The science bonus should probably be +0.25 per citizen or +20%.

I'm a fan of this.
The med lab especially was too bad to build in most standard games to my way of thinking.

this is so epic. it deserves waaaay more comments.

Yeah, that's a known issue with all mods and it has to do with how the game gets data from the Workshop. Basically, the issue is that your game is convinced it did download this already even though it didn't. If you go to Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\cache and delete the file "Civ5ModsDatabase.db" it will cause the game to reevaluate which mods it has and has not downloaded the next time you enter the mods menu, and it should start downloading everything that's missing. This will also uncheck all current mods, but won't have any negative effects.

I am having issues with this mod. I went to click on the update part ingame and now it won't show up at all in my game, even when i unsuscribe and resubscribe.

The Medical Lab is an extremely late-game building with a high cost and only a tiny benefit, but I agree that I went a bit too far in improving it. The Scientist slot was removed and the food and science values dropped to 3 for this update.

While I agree medical labs could do a little bit more, +4 sci and +4 food is a bit much for any building. That much is crossing into wonder territory. Perhaps just the scientist slot or just the +food or just the + sci, then it would be some what more inline with the balancing of the game.

Dude, no.

Aquaducts and research labs are already plenty good.