[WIP] FRBs, Foraven's Stellaris rebalance mod

[RedTemplar]

Glad you like. I did increase stations health from vanilla but i'm reluctant to buff them more. I want small fleets to still be able to do damage, jacking station health too much means anything but doomstacks are viable and i want to avoid that. I shrunk how far from each others stations can be and improved their firepower and range, that should be enough. Anyway, my tweak to guns firepower should make building larger ships and stations more viable and nessessary.

I think your balance is pretty good - the extra buff (I have most stations at 3x vanilla HP, and gave the end game crisis stations big damage and armor buffs) are more out of my personal desire than anything else. I think your mods to the game have been awesome so far.

 

[Foraven]

Things are going well, i'm almost done with the next version. New modules in-game, made a few tweaks here and there and pretty much everything i wanted in is. I added the localisation files in but most will be in english for now (until i get some help or babelfish them). Anyway, the word is SOON.

 

[Foraven]

New version is out. I'm attempting a new balance concept so big ships are more desirable despite the high investment. Not sure how it will turn out so feedback are more than welcome.

 

[Panpiper]

Should I presume that unless stated otherwise, it is save game compatible?

 

[Foraven]

Should I presume that unless stated otherwise, it is save game compatible?

It should work without issues. But i think i sent that version too soon, not everything works as intended. I will send a fix in a few minutes to roll back part of the changes.

 

[Foraven]

Uploaded the fixed version. My economy of scale changes was ill conceived and didn't work as intended, had to remove it. The rest is there though so enjoy!

 

[Panpiper]

Uploaded the fixed version. My economy of scale changes was ill conceived and didn't work as intended, had to remove it. The rest is there though so enjoy!

Durn. I like the idea of economy of scale. Fast to build and faster fleets make for perfectly sensible balance to me for smaller ships.

 

[Foraven]

Durn. I like the idea of economy of scale. Fast to build and faster fleets make for perfectly sensible balance to me for smaller ships.

I roled back because the result was messed up, but i will try again. Big ships still have a buff to base hps though.

 

[Mordachai]

Just wanted to shout-out to you Foraven. Good to see other sots mod alumni.

 

[Foraven]

Just wanted to shout-out to you Foraven. Good to see other sots mod alumni.

So long ago... I liked the original but found the sequel to be terrible, even years after release . Anyway, good to see you too.

 

[Mordachai]

you mean Sots ][?

Spoiler: opinion

("the abomination spawn of lies to the community & gross mismanagement at Kerberos")

Yes, that was and is miserable. Don't play it. Still mod Sots prime. Modding Stellaris now as well. Looking forward to seeing your choices as well.

 

[Foraven]

Mod has been updated to 1.6.2, but i have already another fix in the work (stations auras). If anyone has bugs to report it's the right time to do so.

 

[Panpiper]

Mod has been updated to 1.6.2, but i have already another fix in the work (stations auras). If anyone has bugs to report it's the right time to do so.

I run a lot of mods, so I am not sure this bug is yours. There is a station module available in my game called "Tachyon Lance Defense Module". I do not recall researching it, but I have surveyed a ringworld, so I might have gotten something there. However as I was naturally curious as to what it was, at one point I clicked on it. It was instantly installed onto my station, no cost, no build time, and no take backs. It cannot be built over. Sadly this was a station I had been grooming to be one of my primary big ship yards with all module slots used (I am just using FRB for stations, no extra slots), so I pretty much had to start a new station from scratch as this one was now basically broken. I am anal that way.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

I run a lot of mods, so I am not sure this bug is yours. There is a station module available in my game called "Tachyon Lance Defense Module". I do not recall researching it, but I have surveyed a ringworld, so I might have gotten something there. However as I was naturally curious as to what it was, at one point I clicked on it. It was instantly installed onto my station, no cost, no build time, and no take backs. It cannot be built over. Sadly this was a station I had been grooming to be one of my primary big ship yards with all module slots used (I am just using FRB for stations, no extra slots), so I pretty much had to start a new station from scratch as this one was now basically broken. I am anal that way.

FWIW, I noticed the same thing, and I only use your mod plus No Clustered Starts and Select Starting Ruler's Traits.

 

[Foraven]

New version up. Fix a few things like the Tachyon Lance Defense Module showing up on station and a few other mistakes. New ship behaviors should all work and be used by AI.

 

[SwordOfJustice]

Now that larger weapons and hulls are worthwhile in this mod, I've decided to try it out. It looks great! By the way, do you mind me incorporating some of it into my own mod?

 

[Foraven]

Now that larger weapons and hulls are worthwhile in this mod, I've decided to try it out. It looks great! By the way, do you mind me incorporating some of it into my own mod?

I don't really mind, and it's not like i really own any of it .

 

[Foraven]

Argn, don't know why it took me so long to notice; Strikecraft giving extra evasion to their carrier. I'm sure it used to work back in 1.0.3 but i never truly tested it since. Sad but seem fighters are quite useless, they just charge enemy ships like missiles and die pretty much the same way. Not sure i can really fix that, seem like a major vanilla bug.

 

[Foraven]

New version up. Fixed the strike craft bug giving carriers extra evasion. Also buffed strike crafts and gave them new projectile graphics.

Can't do much about Strikecrafts apparent uselessness. They die quickly to PD fire and upping their HPs don't make them last much longer due to how many PDs fire at them. Evasion don't seem to work on them, but that would be the best solution for them.

 

[Mordachai]

Ninja's combat rebalance mod makes the fighters stay near your CV as a defensive screen...