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Faithful Tradition Rework

This mod is a reimagining of the Tradition Policy Tree, keeping the original theme and feel.

- No more free buildings: No free monuments (or amphitheaters!) or free aqueducts.

- Instead, +50% Production when building Monuments, Aqueducts and Granaries, and +3 Production in the Capital.

Free buildings are better than they sound. It's free gold too! There is no maintenance cost for free buildings. In the case of the Aqueduct, you don't even have to research Engineering - which means you can cling to the top of the tech tree and make a beeline for Education without sacrificing long term growth.

Immediately having a monument in a newly settled city is also a huge deal, and the opportunity cost of not picking Liberty should be slower expands. This means new cities don't expand their borders until you hard build that monument.

The production boost to Monuments and Aqueducts gives you some of the lost hammers back, and extending it to Granaries contributes to what Tradition is supposed to be all about - a tall strategy over a wide strategy. The +3 Production this early in the game can make a Capital in a somewhat crappy spot shine.