Modability Suggestions

[Mitchz95]

A flag that can disallow megastructure or frontier outpost construction around a specific star would be useful.

 

[Valgar]

In order to improve of army modding. There is a problem with the impossibility of fine-tuning morale damage.

1. In "00_defines.txt" add variables such as "BASE_MORALE_DAMAGE_MIN" and "BASE_MORALE_DAMAGE_MAX".
2. Untie the morale damage from multiplication by parameter "morale" in "00_armies.txt".
3. "MORALE_DAMAGE_MULT" generally cleaned as harmful.

 

[NilusBavarius]

What I would really like to see is a modifier for construction ship build speed, ...

Have you already tried via the normal Syntax:

  shipsize_constructor_construction_speed_mult = 0.5
  shipsize_constructor_build_cost_mult = -0.2

???

 

[Boristus]

Have you already tried via the normal Syntax:

  shipsize_constructor_construction_speed_mult = 0.5
  shipsize_constructor_build_cost_mult = -0.2

???

That increases the speed at which the construction ships are built, not the speed they build at.
I'll play around with the syntax, though. I'll probably need separate modifiers for mining stations and research stations.

 

[NilusBavarius]

That increases the speed at which the construction ships are built, not the speed they build at.
I'll play around with the syntax, though. I'll probably need separate modifiers for mining stations and research stations.

Defines:

  CONSTRUCTION_SHIP_WORK_SPEED_MULT = 1 # Construction ship construction speed multiplier

maybe you can use this as modifier oO°?

 

[Doctor Arheo]

An 'appear in overview' setting for Megastructures might be an interesting tool to have available. For the general game as well as modding.

 

[Boristus]

Defines:

  CONSTRUCTION_SHIP_WORK_SPEED_MULT = 1 # Construction ship construction speed multiplier

maybe you can use this as modifier oO°?

I already found them (shipsize_mining_station_construction_speed_multi and shipsize_research_station_construction_speed_multi), but the defines one is useful too; I missed it when I was looking for the station construction speed entry.

 

[NilusBavarius]

I already found them (shipsize_mining_station_construction_speed_multi and shipsize_research_station_construction_speed_multi), but the defines one is useful too; I missed it when I was looking for the station construction speed entry.

The quoted ones would work for the "specific" Stations only, the other for "all"... if it even works - haven't tested it. Please create a Topic/Post "here" (to avoid blowing up the "Quick Questions" and "Modability Suggestions" Post), so we can gather more specific Information and follow the workflow - Interesting!

 

[Talvos]

Could how construction ships work be reworked to be more modable - more specifically with regards to civilian stations? I would want the ability to build stations given certain criteria. For vanilla, mining stations would be enabled around objects with a mining resource. Perhaps you could designate custom station X to be built around planets with a certain flag?

In addition, could station missions be reworked to not just be observation stations? Right now only observation stations have the ability to be given missions. I'd ideally like to be able to let construction ships build custom civilian stations, and those stations be allowed to be given missions.

 

[jarnomiedema]

I would like to see more support be given to the various types of rooms we can include in Stellaris.

As one of the creators of the 'Diverse Rooms' mod, I'm a little dissappointed by the fact that we can only limit ourselves to AI personality, civics and ethics to assign rooms..

The file 'rooms_textures.txt' in gfx\portraits\asset_selectors mentions the following,

#will run with a limited country scope. species and government is set but the country does not actually exist

after which we get lines like these:

        "personality_hegemonic_imperialists_room"     = { has_ai_personality = hegemonic_imperialists }
        "personality_federation_builders_room"         = { OR = { has_ai_personality = federation_builders has_ai_personality = fanatic_befrienders } }
        "personality_democratic_crusaders_room"     = { has_ai_personality = democratic_crusaders }
        "personality_evangelizing_zealots_room"     = { has_ai_personality = evangelising_zealots }
        "personality_migrating_flock_room"             = { has_ai_personality = migrating_flock }

I would really like to see this changed, to allow us to assign rooms to classes of species, planet type or government types or a combination of all types. There are several insectoid hive environments for instance, but they would absolutely not fit hiveminds from other types of species..

Plus, the more options, the better! Right now, it seems like the AI will never pick any of the new rooms we've created, no matter what. They will always assign themselves the approriate rooms for their AI personality as set by Paradox. It seems like they refuse to pick a room at random if the AI personality is added to other rooms as an option..

 

[CrazedSeal]

I'm not sure if you're able to do this already, but I would like the ability for buildings to be unable to be demolished/replaced unless a certain condition is met.

building_plague_memorial = {
    is_listed = no
    icon = "building_religious_monument"

    planet_modifier = {
        pop_happiness = 0.1
    }
    
    
    allow_demolish = {
        has_technology = "tech_history_alteration"
    }
    
    cost = {
    }
    required_resources = {
    }
    produced_resources = {
    }
    upgrades = {
    }
    
    ai_replace = no
    event_building = yes
}

Essentially the player/AI/controller of the building would be unable demolish it unless a certain condition is met, the example i used above is that unless the player has the technology History Alteration (which I just made up) then they would be unable to replace/demolish it.

Why you may ask?

I have an idea to simulate corporate holdings within an empire, as the player would be unable to touch buildings that were corporate "owned."

Just a thought, however if it's too much work to get it to work don't bother, I'll find a different way to do it

 

[NilusBavarius]

Well, beside some very good Points which where already mentioned before, there is definately a need for this modifier in the defines.txt:

NShip = {
 MILITARY_POWER_STRIKE_CRAFT_MULT    = 0.50 # overall military power of Strike Crafts is lowered due to being vulnerable to PD
}

 

[petruxa]

I wonder why we still do not have a modifier for Robot Build Cost? Would be useful.

 

[grackul]

It will be nice if we could easier choose which buildings sets we want for specific planet classes, because now I have to replace whole 00_buildngs.txt and habitat_buildings.txt to be able to build habitat buildings on my new custom planet class.

 

[petruxa]

It will be nice if we could easier choose which buildings sets we want for specific planet classes, because now I have to replace whole 00_buildngs.txt and habitat_buildings.txt to be able to build habitat buildings on my new custom planet class.

I agree. This is really uncomfortable that we always have to overwrite the whole file (bulding or technology, for example) in order to modify a single entry there. This invokes a lot of compatibility issues with other mods. Meanwhile it's already been fixed for Policies, so I believe it's possible to other stuff as well.

 

[littleraskol]

It will be nice if we could easier choose which buildings sets we want for specific planet classes, because now I have to replace whole 00_buildngs.txt and habitat_buildings.txt to be able to build habitat buildings on my new custom planet class.

Is it possible to create custom copies of the buildings you want that do the same thing?

 

[littleraskol]

I'd like to request more control at the scripting level over civics so that we can script the replacement of specific civics. We can kinda do this with change_government, but it's a bit of a blunt instrument.

 

[grackul]

Is it possible to create custom copies of the buildings you want that do the same thing?

It's possible but you will end up with buildings duplicates, I tried it

 

[Yandersen]

I have a suggestion regarding utility slots system rework to open the possibility of adding larger ship sizes without the need of additional sections with tons of slots. Right now we have 1L slot device functionally equal to 2M or 4S devices. I suggest to rebalance utility items so that 1L=8M=64S. I already implemented this system in my mod here: Ships Reworked. However, this makes SR incompatible with any other ship adding mod, since everybody base on the vanilla slot system. As the result, any large ships other mods add end up with multiple sections and millions of slots. Rebalancing the vanilla slot system into SR slot system will give hard time to modders since they will have to reconfigure all ship sections and components, I understand, therefore I suggest to do this in beta-patch first to give the community time to adjust their mods to the new system.

Alternatively it can be achieved by the addition of new slot sizes above Large, of course. It may be even better solution since weapons need larger tiers anyway. But this problem must be solved one way or another before Dreadnought and Titan ship sizes introduced (as early Adams patch notes suggested).

 

[Mitchz95]

Is it possible to create custom copies of the buildings you want that do the same thing?

Kind of. If a building is redefined in a file that loads after the core file, the second definition will--in most contexts--be the only definition of that building. You will, however, see multiple instances of the same building show up in upgrade options. It is therefore best to avoid doing this except for buildings that are not part of an upgrade chain.