X4 Commonwealth No More
You are downloading an in-development version of the mod. There are a bunch of issues and bugs and lots of errors in the debug log (please don’t look there). Due to the increased galaxy size, running this mod has much higher system requirements than the vanilla game. You may be stuck on a black screen upon starting/loading a game. If that is the case, wait a minute and the game should fade in. Gameplay may be a little choppy in the first couple of minutes after starting a new game as the game tries to process things regarding the vanilla universe which are obviously broken now(e.g. attempting to place data vaults)
X4: Commonwealth no More(X4:CnM for short) is an in-development total conversion mod for X4: Foundations set in a universe resembling more the X3 universe than the vanilla X4 universe. The lore of the CnM-universe is consistent with the lore of the stamdard universe up until the point of the gate shutdown. In the CnM-universe, the gate shutdown did not absolutely shut down every gate in existence, but only divided the universe into many small isolated clusters. Eventually many of the gates reconnected in a similar fashion to what they were prior to the shutdown, but decades of complete independence made many factions not re-join the faction there were part of prior to the gate shutdown. Of course all of that sudden change with many new factions doesn’t just come without conflict. While in some places some strong pirate factions emerged who are now having border-skirmishes with the local police, in other places some factions are having an all-out war, all of that with the ever-looming presence of the Xenon. The Commonwealth of Planets which used to keep the peace in the universe is a distant memory at best.
Progress on this Mod will be slow as I do have a job.
- A new, large universe heavily inspired by the X3 universe (184 sectors) with lots of trade opportunities as well as conflict
- Encounters removed
- Progress rebalance (currently only means highly increased ship prices to avoid getting many ships too quickly and then wondering where all the content in this game is)
- Many new factions
- Due to the way the universe is set up, there are actually safe areas of space and less safe areas unlike the vanilla game where you can get Xenon spawned on you anywhere
- Pirate Factions which have an actual industry and control territory (only some major ones)
- Combat Rebalance which generally makes combat last much longer
- Some new small weapons
- Major rebalance of ships and economy as well as further combat rebalancing
- New Weapons
- Mission Rebalance
- Borons and Terrans are using Argon ships and equipment
- Faction representatives are not set up. Every game start gives you module hacking tech though, so you just have to hack for the modules
- Outlaws may disguise themselves as a faction from the vanilla game.
- The first few minutes of the game may have especially poor performance
- Terran Sectors have no work done to them whatsoever
- The Split Male model does not work properly. Therefore all Split are female for now
- Terrans and Borons have no Habitats, causing their factories to operate at a lower efficiency
- Initial setup spawns some Argon production modules for Teladi instead of their own Teladianium-based ones
- License names are place holders
- Omicron Lyrae’s Menelaus’ Oasis and Thynn’s Excavation sector name is not spoken
- Used actual strings in the XML files for now instead of using Text IDs and having respective t-files to make things more readable for me
- Only English language supported for now
- Boron NPCs are clipping through the floor (you only see their head popping out)
- A bunch of placeholder texts
- Boron NPCs have no voice using English language – this is actually a bug in X4 itself and requires fixing by EGOSOFT
If you would like to have more info about the mod or the universe’s background, stay updated, give feedback or want to help out, check out the forum thread[forum.egosoft.com]
