Spread Out Containment Research
My big issue with containment research in Anomaly is that there’s no real sense of progression. You can research Entity Containment as soon as you unlock dark studies, and then you’re set for the rest of the game as far as Anomaly research goes (technically, you get another small boost with Bioferrit Shaping, but you’ll certainly have that naturally done by the time you have the spare bioferrite to fully floor your cells).
This mod aims to spread the containment facilities around a bit more. It includes the following changes:
- The Entity Containment research now requires Smithing instead of Electricity. This means that the default start will likely need to resort to holding spots for a bit longer (and that tribals no longer need to go industrial to figure out how chains work). Most of its follow-up techs still require Electricity.
- Electric inhibitors have been moved to the Electroharvester research (now renamed Anomaly Bioelectrics).
- Shard inhibitors have been moved to a new advanced tech with Entity Containment as a prerequisite.
This is a simple XML patching mod and should be compatible with any mod that does not directly mess with the prerequisites of the affected techs or buildings.
