[WOTC] Rustys Recruits Redux

This mod is a combination of Krj12’s Enhanced Recruitment Lists , SaintKnaves Recruits Conserve Character Pool and Kdm2k6’s LWotC Recruits Stat Display .

The code is about 80% Kdm2k6’s and made with his permission.
However I was unable to contact SaintKnave or Krj12.

The reason I’ve made this is that the three parent mods all use a ModClassOverride, MCO, on the same class UIRecruitSoldiers so cannot work together but they all had interesting features and I couldn’t pick which one to use. So I merged them.

So in this mod we get the base of the ‘LWotC Stat Display’ recruit screen, with the extra bit of information of ‘Enhanced List’ and the functionality of ‘Conserve Units’.

• Krj12’s Enhanced Recruitment Lists :
  Displays the soldier class as specified in the character pool, which can be useful for some mods like Use My Class . This can be turned off in the config if you wish. I couldn’t get the list sorting working with Recruits Conserve Pool.
• SaintKnaves Recruits Conserve Character Pool :
  Uses a config ini change to stop adding soldiers to the Recruit Soldiers list every month and instead adds a new recruit whenever you hire someone. This helps to preserve your carefully constructed character pool soldiers to actually be findable and usable during your campaign.
  No more will your favorite end up languishing in the recruitment pool, never to see the shiny side of a Sectoid. This can be turned off in the config if you wish.
• Kdm2k6’s LWotC Recruits Stat Display :
  The bulk of the mod. An amazing focus colour changing, stat displaying, mugshot taking beast of a mod. Extremely useful with mods like Point Based Not Created Equal . Has config options for which stats to display and which ones to hide.

So as well as configs for the features of the above, I also included all the ‘recruitment’ configs I could find from XComGameData.ini. This includes the Starting Barracks Recruits (set at 7, to let your pool soldiers be rewards), Number of Recruits each supply drop (set at 0, recruits appear when you hire one) and Cost of Recruits (set at 20, 25, 25, 42 per difficulty).

There are also options for how long recruits take to show up (left at the default of 0hrs) and if the recruit pool should use the pool, randoms or mixed soldiers. I set this to ‘pool’ so the recruits will always prioritise Pool Soldiers if they haven’t been assigned already.

This new Recruit Screen technically needs my Standardised Resource Bar (or a similar mod that supports the new screen) to display the number of supplies you have in the resource bar. I already had all the setup in that mod and didn’t feel like merging more stuff into this.
You can just as easily get by without this so not a hard-requirement.

I can’t actually recall where the status icons come from, it was either Detailed Soldier Lists or the original LW Toolbox , they’ve been sat on my PC for so long I lost my source notes. Sorry.

Should be fine for a mid-campaign strategy save install. The display should update instantly, but your mileage will vary with some features depending on the state of your game prior.

Nothing is ‘perfect’ …

1. Obviously this mod suffers the same problem of the original 3 and uses a MCO of UIRecruitSoldiers, it will therefore NOT work with any mod that does the same, including LWotC and the 3 parent mods, lol!. Should be fine for RPGO and Covert Infiltration (with some minor config edits for balance).
2. SWR NCE randomises its stats based on a UISL for the UIAvengerHUD, so you need to back out of the recruits screen and come back in to refresh the Stats Display after hiring
3. Charmed’s NCE I didn’t personally test this mod but it might be okay, not sure how it does it’s thing by config only?
4. Shiremcts PBNCE should work fine (and is what I tested with)
5. Unlimited Recruits Has major conflicting configs and theme.
6. Mugshots/Headshots may take a while to load. The system catches up eventually, but in one case I was waiting a good 2 minutes, this may be a reflection of my potato PC 🙂

Obvious credits to the three original mods, links above, without which this really would never have been possible.
My thanks also to the XCom2 Modders Discords for amazing support over the last year.

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