A mod that makes expanding harder, has some misc balancing and improves the artstyle all around. Includes an optional custom splash screen.
Features:
- Each faction starts around a sun of the same color as the faction theme.
- Refined UI color schemes. Includes all factions, neutral theme and techtree.
- Homeworlds have full thematic schemes to match everything else.
- Basic ship's range reduced from 12 to 6.
- Every "Life Support" component now grants more or less half the original range.
- Map sizes doesn't buff ship's range anymore.
- Factions starts with a scout ship only.
- Colony ships can be built after researching "Interstellar Transport Specialization".
- Home planet initial population changed to 7.
- Factions starts with 500 gold.
- "Prolific" ability gives 2 extra population to the new colonized planet instead of double the population inside a colony ship.
- Reduced gold cost to rush planetary improvements to 8 times the manufacture cost.
- Ship's basic maintenance cost is double the original value. (Internal components still have the same cost.
Upcoming features:
- Thematic planets in homeworld's solar systems.
- Fine tune ship's colors.
- Further refinement of UI schemes.
- Increased production decay if far away from shipyard.
Curiosity: If you don't take faction bonuses into consideration, the scout ship you start with will have 10 units range, if you travel along the borders of the range limit around your home star system it will left no space unexplored between the max range area and the homeworld. Most habitable planets should be a little outside this radius. At the point you discover how to colonize planets, the maximum range should be 14, that's exactly the area the scout has checked out (10 movement range + 4 sensor range.)
Advise: You may need to build starbases in order to travel at some maps or under certain situations.
Warning: In order to make custom factions start with the scout ship only, it's necessary to create them from the start (copy-paste don't work.)
Notes: This mod is suspended until there are fewer vanilla updates. Installation guide inside; not necessary to overwrite any original file of the game.
Download: Suspended.
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