Unfortunately this mod now has a game breaking bug deprioritising certain specialist jobs.

the managers and executives no longer provide research production.. whould be cool to see an update for 2.5 :)

Got to say, I do love the flavor text you added for the start, with the tongue-in-cheek references to Apple, Amazon, and Google.

Don't know if you're still updating this, but it looks like that Executives and Managers no longer add a small trickle of science. At least, I think that's the case. I've disabled the mods that would most obviously cause a potential conflict with the jobs. If you could take a look at the mod, it would be greatly appreciated. I really liked this civic.

Does this still work with 2.3.3 with out breaking the game?

Oh whoops. I didn't see in the patch notes that pop jobs got updated. I'll just replace the vanilla file. I hate that I couldn't figure out another way to do it because I hate to use vanilla files.

This was a very fun little mod, and I think it was quite flavorful as well, without being too overpowered. However, I think it must overwrite the jobs files, as through process of elimination, I narrowed it down to this mod that seems to be reverting metallurgist output to 2 alloys per 6 minerals rather than 3 alloys per 6 minerals (per the update), which is clearly unintended behavior.

Sure @megamen212! Uploading now.

Hello, I made an elementary localization into the Russian language, I would be grateful if you add to the mod, here is a link to localization https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nSS9oUiKsgPYc1kEewaZSpwYPOAoI5zr

Updated to include a random_name list for non-player empires - should prevent a potential crash (though no one reported one from it), according to the wiki.
Updated to generate a game-start middle paragraph unique to this government type.

@madpluck With regards to the Trade policy, I would make it like 25% of the Tradevalue for base, and 10% of the Tradevalue to Sci of each. My thought was to think of it as basically funneling all money into research grants on the homeworld.

Same thought to the research pact, if moddable make the research bonus to the player zero and it's only a percentage Tradevalue pact, basically EU4 style Knowledge sharing.

As to the AP perk, it might actually be a very interesting balance in itself, since you as a Tech Corp are now giving research bonuses to every Empire you have a Research Pact with. All of a sudden AI has a lot more power than normal.

My goal for this mod was to create something equivalent to Technocracy for MegaCorps.

Technocracy is pretty powerful IMHO, and all it does is add 1 Unity to Researchers, and replace 1 Admin with 1 Science Director, trading 3 unity and 3 amenity production for 5 of each Science (which is a very large gain), until you get to higher levels of the capital, when it grains 2 SD.

Already with Planetary Capital, this mod's bonus currently provides a +6 to each Science (+9 to Society actually), with zero trade-offs/losses. It would be tough to justify additional bonuses without the civic being totally OP, but if I can figure out how to make some of these suggestions happen (much harder for me personally), I will make a second version that is OP!

I really like the idea of an additional Trade Policy, but it seems like it would be REALLY strong since you're essentially taking a shortcut turning energy into research without first turning energy > minerals > consumer goods > research points.

It'd be interesting to see a special policy for Trade to increase Science production, similar to the current Unity or Consumer Good version. Could tie it to the Civic.

Another idea is to perhaps also change the returns on the Commercial pact and the Research pact to allow either to have some benefits of the other.

Last idea I have is to modify the Megacorp Ascension Perk to make Research pacts influence free like the Commercial pacts, or to make that a Second tier Megacorp Perk. This being said a suite of Megacorp Ascension perks for better pacts, Increased Trust Cap (To help with Diplo Vassal), Or CBs based on Branch office locations (Thinking like the CK2 Republic TP>City>County CBs)

I agree with the idea of branch offices generating research for something like this. I feel that something like this should feel more different from a normal megacorp than just "bonus research from some pops"

Sold!

Well that's why I'm hoping for some feedback so I can tweak the numbers!

I like the idea but wouldn't it be a bit OP?

Thanks for the feedback! I will put that in my notes, though I'd like to get some playtesting done for balance before adding even more research. This is sort of equivalent to Technocracy for now, and that seems like it would be another big boost! But it's a very well-themed idea :D

Nice concept I like it, you should also make it so Branch Offices give us more research as well IMO.