Flintlock
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That's right. There's an element of randomness in what the AI chooses to build and it works by adding a random number of points to the AI's valuations of its options. IIRC, the random number is chosen between -5 and +5. Perfume is added at the very end of the valuation logic so it's not affected by the randomness or any other factors in the AI logic.
This is surprisingly tricky because each city's total maintenance cost is cached inside the city object, instead of being recalculated every time it's needed like most things. So when an improvement is built, its maintenance cost is added to the total, and when it's lost, the cost is removed. Nothing special is done when it's obsoleted of course. The game must recalculate the cost from scratch sometimes because it's affected by wonders granting free improvements being gained, lost, or obsoleted. I found a method that does that, although I don't know exactly when it's run. Oddly, that method does not charge maintenance for obsolete buildings, so I don't know what's going on there, maybe a bug. Anyway, this sort of thing is doable but would have to be done carefully.
This is surely possible, again the hardest part would be reading in the exclusion lists from the text file and organizing them.
I haven't looked at the AI logic regarding rushing, but I don't expect it would be difficult to influence its decisions.
No worriesFlintlock, I am very sorry for wasting your time with such a stupid mistake I have done.I couldn´t find the CCM testfile among my many dozens of config files, where I set the two worded resources in quotation marks (and some more such two worded resources in it), but after having done a new test file with a special focus, that even all two worded resources are set in quotation marks, all was working well (as you posted).
May be it could a good idea to add to the examples in the c3x_config file an example with a two worded building producing a two worded resource, like:
"Hydro Plant": local no-tech-req "Electric Power".
. I'll make a note for myself about adding such an example, that's obviously easy to do and might help. What would help more, and is a lot more involved, would be to remove the requirement to use quotation marks at all. In that list of building generated resources the quotes are redundant since the end of the resource name can already be found by searching for the , or ] characters. Unfortunately they're not redundant everywhere. In the building prereqs for units list, I used spaces to separate the unit names so there the quotes are necessary for multiword names. I could change that to use commas or something to separate but that would break config files from earlier mod versions. I'm not sure that it's worth it.Like Alekseyev_ suggested, it might help to think of quotation marks as standard and only leave them off in special circumstances. Fun fact, that was actually what I had in mind when I originally programmed the mod's INI reader. Originally all strings were going to require quotation marks but then I decided to add the option to read single words as strings without quotes. That's why you don't need quotes around things like the names of the config options, but you can optionally include them. For example, instead of retreat_rules = standard you can write "retreat_rules" = "standard" and it will work the same.
Therefore at present I think, that I can change the format of the CCM Civilopedia back to normal C3C standards. On the other side, the 
