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Modding / [0.96] Small tweaks to Recovery Shuttles / Rugged Construction / Solar Shielding
« on: May 29, 2021, 07:43:51 AM »
3 separate minimods to tweak some of vanilla hullmods, and make them more useful / more worth the OP cost.
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Recovery Shuttles:
Recovery shuttles still reduce the casualties suffered by fighter pilots by 75%, same as in vanilla.
Now, it also reduces the rate at which the replacement rate decreases due to fighter losses by 7%, so about half the bonus of Expanded Deck Crew hullmod.
(Always thought that recovery shuttles feel practically useless, with how cheap the crew is. Now there's some use in combat as well as on campaign layer)
Solar Shielding:
Reduces damage from solar coronae etc by 90% (was 75%), reduces damage taken from energy weapons by 10% (same as vanilla).
Also removes "Logistics" tag from Solar Shielding.
(For some reason if you first install 2 logistics hullmods, installing solar shielding on top of them won't work, but if you install shielding and then other logistic hullmods - it works fine.)
Rugged Construction:
In addition to vanilla bonuses, now also reduces crew casualties by 50%.
(In-game description makes it sound like recovering rugged construction ships after the battle is normal occurrence, so it sounds weird that such ships wouldn't have any built in safety features, and just vent its crew after every other battle.)
Tell me if balance feels off or something doesn't work!
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(Actual icons in game aren't cahnged)
Recovery Shuttles:
Recovery shuttles still reduce the casualties suffered by fighter pilots by 75%, same as in vanilla.
Now, it also reduces the rate at which the replacement rate decreases due to fighter losses by 7%, so about half the bonus of Expanded Deck Crew hullmod.
(Always thought that recovery shuttles feel practically useless, with how cheap the crew is. Now there's some use in combat as well as on campaign layer)
Solar Shielding:
Reduces damage from solar coronae etc by 90% (was 75%), reduces damage taken from energy weapons by 10% (same as vanilla).
Also removes "Logistics" tag from Solar Shielding.
(For some reason if you first install 2 logistics hullmods, installing solar shielding on top of them won't work, but if you install shielding and then other logistic hullmods - it works fine.)
Rugged Construction:
In addition to vanilla bonuses, now also reduces crew casualties by 50%.
(In-game description makes it sound like recovering rugged construction ships after the battle is normal occurrence, so it sounds weird that such ships wouldn't have any built in safety features, and just vent its crew after every other battle.)
Tell me if balance feels off or something doesn't work!
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