Settler scaling cost

[Aquila SPQR]

I see the more cities you have or the more settlers you built - the higher the settler's production cost is. I understand why it was implemented, but I've just discovered the joy of playing completely alone on the map, just me and barbarians. That leaves a lot of empty land for colonizing and the scaling settler costs are becoming quite high, with the latest one going to take 280 turns to build. So... yeah.

How can I disable it or at least lower it significantly? I've looked across dozen of mod files, but found only maintenance cost modifier which isn't what I'm looking for I think.

Also is the scaling cost transferred to colonists and pioneers? Or do they start with default cost and then start scaling independently from settlers again?

 

[hokath]

There are a few custom options around Settlers, but not one that changes this.
I looked a bit further but couldn't obviously see where the cost per settler is defined. Closest I saw was the Units column CostScalerNumRepeats, but I didn't see it actually set anywhere -- will have to check the database to be sure.

 

[civitasjohn]

Try playing Spain and use Conquistadors to found cities

 

[CppMaster]

Another opinion would be to use IGE to give your self settlers. You can sleep them for few turns to simulate production.

 

[BaldSamson]

You can control their faith costs which don't scale by the number produced, just make them faith purchasable.

 

[phantom22]

You can also deduct 1 population for further accurate simulation with the IGE.