Hello there! I am thoroughly enjoying this mod, and I was particularly excited when I chanced upon one of those Experimental BPs for an Onslaught, no less, so I followed the trail and discovered how to use them. It became my end-game goal and mission to get the facility up and running and I frequently left my colonies, established new ones, and explored everywhere I can in order to fulfill said mission.
Imagine my excitement when I finally had the necessary facilities up and running and I was about to print out one of those Experimental BPs, of course I read the Industry Descriptions first and knew there was a chance for them to be defective but the idea of -experimental- really stood out for me.
In any case, the end product was... lackluster, I even put in a gamma-core to minimize the chances of defects, but I still got a Minor Printing Defects hullmod baked into my Onslaught. So I thought, maybe I need to print out more, so I thought about deconstructing the one I just printed out but it didn't want me to because it had said defects. So, alright, I just deconstructed my 2 prized pristine Onslaughts I managed to poach from the Hegemony (I still haven't gotten access to the actual BP) , and also placed a beta-core (was it? unsure about this one) in the Deconstructor to reduce chances of the Experimental BPs having defects. And then I printed a new set, and to my surprise all of them also had Minor Printing Defects baked into them. This time, I was curious, is this as good as it gets, so I finally peaked into the inner workings of the mod and discovered it is, I was... disappointed.
You see I was sort of expecting and giddy about the idea of the experimental nature of the setup and with all the effort it took to set everything up. I wasn't really expecting a super strong hullmod baked in, but I was expecting something... experimental, kind of like hullmods that could be quirky or weird but -can- be positive, like say a System Overrides mod but random-y, mixed buffs is what I'm getting at I guess, things that both bestow blessings but boons onto the ship. But as it stands all of the possible baked in hullmods are debuffs (albeit the Minor one legitimately being Minor) and that doesn't feel to good for the effort put into it. Even more so when I could have just built the Engineering Facility to reverse engineer the 2 Onslaughts I had to maybe get the actual BP for it and construct actual pristine ones.
What I'm seeing is that most people feel the same way about it, during the late-game, you aren't short on cash and that's effectively what printing does for you, makes making ships cheaper, but when the whole system to get them to begin with is expensive (and dangerous), you already probably have the means to support even more expensive endeavors. So what I feel like a good lategame credit sink would be is if an alpha-core for the Construction Industry did increase chances of having defects, but also provided a chance of some <mixed blessing random stroke of luck this one got printed out quirky kind of buffs>. It would incentivize people to build a pristine copy in their own colonies, take those ships to possibly be printed into some of those mixed bag baked in hullmods, and keep doing so until they get the mixed bag they want.
This would further tie together the features in this mod already, the Reverse Engineering Facility to get BPs for say an Onslaught, construct said Onslaughts and send them to the Deconstructor, the Deconstructor creates Experimental BPs which, using the Courier Port will be delivered to the Experimental Fabricator, Fabricator prints the ships and outputs Degraded BPs that are then Courier Port-ed to a Library, Library fixes them up and then are Courier Port-ed back to Deconstructor, ready again for you to send some ships over to it to potentially get some of the mixed bag hullmods you want, the ones that you don't want you can probably scrap.
If you disregard all of this that's fine with me, I do enjoy it just not what I expected. I do have one final request, which is the capitalization on the printing defects hullmods, right now it's kinds off-putting for me to see "Minor printing defects" instead of "Minor Printing Defects" more so for the capitalization than the actual effects it has on my not so perfect copy Onslaughts.
Thank you for reading and I hope you're doing well and safe during all the crazy going on! Have a good one!
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Topic: [0.97a] Industrial.Evolution 3.3.e - Campaign content expansion (Read 1255943 times)