Combat Regeneration

[Ray3501]

2.0 changed how the ship health system work. In addition to changing it into something similar to the EVE Online one (sans the four damage types obviously), it also put in self-repair delay timers. Ships appear to regenerate ten days after they stop taking damage, which is in line with non-starbase stations; starbases themselves take thirty days.

The changes break this mod, which activates shield regen by setting the can_rechage_shield flag to yes. Fortunately, the timers are not exactly hardcoded, for they can be changed in defines. Specifically, these two definitions:

• STATION_SELF_REPAIR_TIMER_DAYS
  
• STARBASE_SELF_REPAIR_TIMER_DAYS

Through some testing, I have discovered that ships use the first definition when determining when to start repairing. Setting the definition to 0 causes the ships to start regenerating even during combat. Since the effects are difficult to notice, I tested this with an edict that causes ships to repair at a rate of 35% per day (on top of whatever repair bonus currently going on), and testing with mere corvettes show that they cannot break the edict-enhanced tank.

And with that, I'll just say that this mod sets both of the definitions to 0, so ships, stations, and starbases will immediately regenerate once hit.

Further testing, however, shows that starbases will eventually be onlined when it regenerates its shield and armor. This is not a problem for standard empires, but it breaks marauders. This seems to happen even if I set STARBASE_ENABLED_HEALTH_PERCENTAGE to 0.5 or 1. I have to change the starbase timer to 1 to fix this bug.

That, however, still makes full starbase self-repairs more likely, as if defending fleets can draw all the fire away from the starbase, it will then immediately self-repair. This has the potential to affect the battle outcome.

And with that, this mod gets rid of the station repair timer to allow for ships and stations to self-repair immediately after getting damaged, and reduces the starbase repair timer to make it possible to offline a starbase while making it harder to do so due to the incredible short (1 day) repair timer that can be exploited by defending fleets.

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1437765183
Non-Workshop: Right click on the attachment, save it, then drag the file to common/defines in the Stellaris folder. Or whatever mod you are using.

 

[Pavo]

Thanks!

 

[Ray3501]

I did some further testing. Turns out that starbases will eventually be onlined when it regenerates its shield and armor. This is not a problem for standard empires, but it breaks marauders by making them attack over and over. This seems to happen even if I set STARBASE_ENABLED_HEALTH_PERCENTAGE to 0.5 or 1. I have to change the starbase timer to 1 to fix this bug.

That, however, still makes full starbase self-repairs more likely, as if defending fleets can draw all the fire away from the starbase, it will then immediately self-repair. This has the potential to affect the battle outcome.

The updated mod is now uploaded to both here and the workshop.