MOO Advanced
This mod is designed to open up additional ship design options, and impact the games data on a minimal basis ie balance changes from patches will not be over written by this.
-What mod does
1. Changes Troop Transport Ship to be designable.
2. Changes Scout Ship to be designable.
3. Changes Colony Ship to be designable.
4. Changes Advanced Colony Ship to be designable.
5. Removes Space requirement from Battle Pods and increase bonus to 50%
6. No longer limited to a single doomstar.
7. Clears combat screen of rocks and clouds….I found them extremely annoying and would block the view.
8. Adds a galaxy age option "Gaia Rich". This age will create many yellow suns with gaia planets.
9. You now have 17 perk points for creating custom races. (The other perk mods impact too many in-game variables.
10. Other adjustsed stats(a few of the ships that are made designable I changed their [hullclass] value this impacts the cost of special componets and engines. So a colony ship might be a bit more expensive then it used to be.) The space available on colony ships was lowered because the games default of 500+ is way too much.)
Recent Fixes:
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Revamped the equipment designs for scouts and colony ships. AI’s should now equip basic weapons with out being stuck making really expensive ships.
Notes:
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Game normally doesn’t seem to charge marines on a planet for troop transports.
When you learn to make any of these ships it opens up an additional blueprint option. You can delete these and use them for another kind of hull, but you would lose access to the ship. So say you delete the scout design and make another frigate. You wouldn’t beable to build the scout because you deleted the design. The game only lets you click on about to 9-10 ship designs… if you end up with more they go off screen. Doesnt seem to be a problem but you may have to have some temporary designs for light weight ships.
If you do not see the galaxy age option "Gaia Rich" available unsubscribe and resubscribe to get it to update the mod. I changed some of the file names and apparently this may cause steam not to update the mod properly?
I have tried to keep the mod to be as minimal of an impact to the game as possible. So that it does not impead balance changes coming from the base game. I am still learning some minor parts of the files that I can further reduce. Once I am further along I will probably post the source for people to review if there is interest.
Should be good in all translations. Should work with just about any other mods. Should work for all races.
Did not create design variants for the ships as they level up. Not sure how that will impact these for the ai’s
Feel free to post comments or send me issues and requests.
