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Birchworld-Like Frameworld Scaling

Frameworlds are such a cool concept and come online very quickly, but as a regular player of this origin, I notice that when I play other types, claiming or building a birch world grants a degree of growth scaling that completely shatters what's possible on a Frame world. This is done on a Birch world with self-scaling production/upkeep of jobs by the number of districts (technically insula, but those are fancy districts so whatever) that provide those jobs, retroactively making all jobs stronger as the birch gets bigger.

The Frameworld does not do this normally, and once all possible modifiers are stacked, the growth is at best linear with pops filling new districts that never grow stronger again or, worse yet, grow weaker overall by high density scaling and exploding empire size, leading to logarithmic, slowly plateauing growth.

Essentially, what this mod does is give the district-count-to-job-strength interplay that a Birch world benefits from to the Frameworld, albeit at a smaller gain-per-pop involved. These self-stacking bonuses only take effect once the Frameworld has applied the district-overhaul decisions granted by ascension perks or gigastructures-specific technology unlocks, such as the integrated Penrose sphere, the Gaia enviromental systems overhaul, or the planetary computing integration.

Frame worlds tend to reach their district-augmented status before a Birch World is available, so matching the scaling would be extremely unfair. Additionally, ONLY the districts which would be augmented by the Birch insulae have been impacted, such as base materials, industrial materials, research and unity. Things that are not modified by the insulae like strategic resource or supertensile production have not been increased.

This has been tested so far only with machine empires, but there is code to cope with all empire types regarding the differing upkeeps materials of Machines, Hives, and individuals, but please comment if something is raising upkeeps by multiple or improper resources.

To mitigate that pesky High Density Scaling generally without eliminating it, try out my +10 HDS Incrementor mod.

For a more powerful version of that which can eliminate the HDS altogether after a while, try out the +5% Exponential HDS Incrementor mod.