Have they ever considered moving this (Starsector as a whole) to steam, so that the steam workshop can take care of all the mod dependencies? Would surely be rad.
No thank you. Steam Workshop makes it very difficult to gain some visibility for newcomers, is extremely limited in term of what you can do to make a nice presentation, and has a very unappealing EULA.
You grant Valve and its affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive, right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, transcode, translate, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and publicly perform, your User Generated Content, and derivative works of your User Generated Content, in connection with the operation and promotion of the Steam site. This license is granted to Valve for the entire duration of the intellectual property rights and may be terminated if Valve is in breach of the license and has not cured such breach within fourteen (14) days from receiving notice from you sent to the attention of the Valve Legal Department at the applicable Valve address noted on this Privacy Policy page. The termination of said license does not affect the rights of any sub-licensees pursuant to any sub-license granted by Valve prior to termination of the license. Valve is the sole owner of the derivative works created by Valve from your Content, and is therefore entitled to grant licenses on these derivative works. If you use Valve cloud storage, you grant us a license to store your information as part of that service. We may place limits on the amount of storage you may use.Basically you give up all rights on what you upload there. If they want they can charge for it, modify it, create other stuff from it etc etc without your consent. And of course, once it's uploaded you have no right to remove it. For example, should you make a TC on a steam game, then want to make it a stand alone game, they could claim ownership on it.
So yeah... Not really "rad" from my point of view.
"Integrated" is probably the wrong term to use anyway, should be changed.
Though I'm not sure what works. "Curated" doesn't really convey the idea of the added features, "supported" implies other faction mods break with it... "Fully supported"? ...Kinda clunky though.
"Symbiotic factions"? "Cooperative factions"? "Stand-alone Integrated faction"? "Extensions"? "DLC factions"? "Non-Packaged Integrated factions"?