I'm wondering how would this work with AI

[Sarin]

It's just an idea for a weird setup...basically, a "soft" OCC for everyone-no settlers beyond the starting one, but annexing cities would work. That would also mean reworking the Liberty tree.

And what bother me a bit is, would it be too easy for human? AI generally makes up for its incompetence by spamming...

Also, who'd make the mod I don't have much time to learn that...yet.

 

[ThorHammerz]

(Not tested):

You can always try to set the cost of a settler to -1, which would prevent anyone from building or buying any, and would not affect existing capabilities to annex cities.

 

[Sarin]

Hm. I'll give that a try later when my game in progress ends (marathon, it takes kinda long...I like just playing a few turns, alttab, come back later, and keep one game this way for weeks).

Still, that leaves the problem of Liberty...how to replace the free settler with something that would make liberty still worthwhile...

Update. Tested, works...now what to do with liberty...