Modded-Mayors VS TAB-memory-access

Modded Mayors GitHub file download location with some instructions/readme

This is just the Mayors mechanic. Which we can already mod to do far more interesting things than default.

There's no need to trust a wiki when you can extract the data tables or see the unmodified source ones here.

What did they make that is actually new, and not just the features that players exposed over 3 years ago?

TABSAT was started while the anti-mods TAB devs were still active, and its approach is to manipulate the save files as & when they are generated by the game, to make it harder for the devs to stop such works. More recently, there have been FOSS efforts to read and manipulate game state while playing, to add a few new keybindings and features without involving save files, or global data file changes as ModdedMayors does.

The only other map theme with non-default values is the Desert one. Unmodified game data exported here.

If you want to alter the rules/data the game uses, you can using this collection of info. No one much seems to care to maintain any sensible rebalanced version, rather they have used the official editor to produce one-off maps with rules (and lore), and then a series of such maps to resemble a campaign.

Modded Mayors. I didn't create the balance, just got it working again, and make available the info and tools needed for others to create their own rebalances.

FWIW, TABSAT allows you to tweak several starting conditions, and swap map themes post-generation. And ModdedMayors currently hosts the latest password needed to extract and repack the rules data file for the game.

You could try modding the data tables, I have not generated the latest Modded Mayors file but did make public the password needed to do so, and this lets you see the other Entity and Command (Techs) tables that the game uses. I don't know what's hardcoded & assumed about them, but you could try removing such entries and seeing if Survival still functions.

TABSAT was started while the anti-mods TAB devs were still active, and its approach is to manipulate the save files as & when they are generated by the game, to make it harder for the devs to stop such works. More recently, there have been FOSS efforts to read and manipulate game state while playing, to add a few new keybindings and features without involving save files, or global data file changes as ModdedMayors does.