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nightangel

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Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« on: November 04, 2019, 02:29:14 PM »

After SsethTzeentach recently introduced me to star sector

This is just the type of great game I like I cant believe I didn’t know about it and had never heard of it before

I’m looking for mods That you would recommend or just improve the quality of life of the game

The activiate Time speed increase on command mod that Seth used in his video for is an example of something I’m looking for

Mods can also be a mega mod collection that adds a lot of goodies to the game

I'll look at total conversion mods later on but feel free to mention them but highlight that they are total conversion

Thanks for your suggestions and input
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2019, 03:00:56 PM »

I would recommend against Grand Sector (it just adds more tedium and salvage) and suggest getting autosave mod, because not everyone has a habit of saving. Additionally, whenever you add a faction mod, I recommend disabling Nex, since it can kill or severely disadvantage factions, before you get all you want from them.

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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2019, 05:46:55 PM »

Faction mods:

Blackrock drive yards
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=4018.0

Blue
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=14041.0

Dassault-Mikoyan Engineering (2 factions)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=11322.0

Diable Avionics
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10046.0

Foundation of Borken (gives "unique storage service offered by the Foundation", which you can use and access as long as you are in decent standing with them. Very helpful. As helpful as their "mental healers" which enable you to change your officer temperment at will).
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=13213.0 (there is a newer version somewhere on 4chan apparently)

Interstellar Imperium
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=8007.0

Junk Pirates (3 factions I believe)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=161.0

Kadur Remnant
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=6649.0

Shadowyards
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=3491.0

Vesperon Combine (This one allows for mass Blue print hunting)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=14915.0

I picked these faction mods as they are all pretty unique, and have unique colors for campaign, ships and weapons etc.

Utility mods:

Audio plus (more music please)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10985.0

Combat chatter (pretty useful to know which ships are falling apart mid combat/missile capacity etc) Listed prior, woops. But yes. Still good.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10399.0

Console commands (In CASE the mods break, or you find yourself in a situation you need to "endcombat" because a mod is borked (I know at least 1 ship does this in the mods I list).
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=4106.0

Content expansions

Arsenal Expansion (I believe this gives my favorite midline capital ship, the victory Nope. That is ship/weapons pack)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=11536.0

Disassemble/reassemble (more ships/weapons)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=12360.0

ED shipyards (I like it a fair amount. Gives unique dynamics to new ship content)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=16479.0

Starship legends (lets your ships get unique traits (good or bad, or just good if you modify text file) after combat (up to legendary))
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=15321.0

Ship/weapons pack (pretty good (edit: has victory. edit2: Has the IBB bounty list)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=11018.0

Tahlan's shipworks (adds weapons, ships, a "hidden" faction (great houses) and a pirate faction (legion infernalis))
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=14935.0

Varya's ships (adds ships/weapons, specifically for varya sector (but not required for it)
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=16059.0


Megamod


Varya's sector (changes a lot, read what it does. Most unique feature is some factions and its own unique bounty board story (listed as IBB in other mods))
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=16058.0


Misc mods

Portrait mods:
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=17066.0
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=13716.0
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10836.0

Allows use of gates:
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=12791.0

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Rest of the mods I use have been listed I believe.

DONT FORGET TO GET THE LIBRARY MODS!

Graph lib
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10982.0
Lazy lib
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=5444.0
Magic lib
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=13718.0


Oh, and yes. Make sure you EXPAND YOUR RAM USAGE FOR THE GAME! OR ELSE YOU WILL RUN INTO PROBLEMS IF YOU USE MORE THAN 2-3 FACTION MODS, 4-5 Ship/pack mods or any of the mega mods listed.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=8726.0

And the main mod index, cuz why not:
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=177.0
« Last Edit: November 04, 2019, 06:59:06 PM by I_is_nublet »
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2019, 06:12:44 PM »

The only problem with having a tonne of faction mods/content expansion mods is that right now there is no listed mod that sorts weapons in any way when refitting your ships (which is a shame).
So keep that in mind.
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2019, 06:26:38 PM »

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Agreed with most of this list. I tend not to use Junk Pirates though, as I believe they look too different to the rest of the ships.

Also, the International Bounty Board (IBB) is actually part of Ship/Weapon Pack, not Vayra's Sector, which actually adds a different bounty system entirely.

Any reason not to suggest Nexerelin? Too much to add for a enw player perhaps?

Other than that, I use most of these mods myself, among others. (Except for Borken. Need to look into that one and maybe get the new 4chan version)
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2019, 06:55:49 PM »

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Agreed with most of this list. I tend not to use Junk Pirates though, as I believe they look too different to the rest of the ships.

Also, the International Bounty Board (IBB) is actually part of Ship/Weapon Pack, not Vayra's Sector, which actually adds a different bounty system entirely.

Any reason not to suggest Nexerelin? Too much to add for a enw player perhaps?

Other than that, I use most of these mods myself, among others. (Except for Borken. Need to look into that one and maybe get the new 4chan version)
Ah, thank you for that correction, I'll change that now. The other mods I use are listed by crimson sky gaurdian (like nex).

Borken has some seriously unique weapon mechanics (TENTACLE SHIPS!), on top of the storage service. It's pretty good.
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2019, 09:48:38 PM »

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Agreed with most of this list. I tend not to use Junk Pirates though, as I believe they look too different to the rest of the ships.

Also, the International Bounty Board (IBB) is actually part of Ship/Weapon Pack, not Vayra's Sector, which actually adds a different bounty system entirely.

Any reason not to suggest Nexerelin? Too much to add for a enw player perhaps?

Other than that, I use most of these mods myself, among others. (Except for Borken. Need to look into that one and maybe get the new 4chan version)
Ah, thank you for that correction, I'll change that now. The other mods I use are listed by crimson sky gaurdian (like nex).

Borken has some seriously unique weapon mechanics (TENTACLE SHIPS!), on top of the storage service. It's pretty good.

Fair enough. Borken looks pretty interesting, but I just started a new save and have like 5 hours in it so far. I don't really want to start a new game, this is like the third time in a week :( I just keep adding new mods that need a fresh save.
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2019, 10:05:56 PM »

Snipped

Agreed with most of this list. I tend not to use Junk Pirates though, as I believe they look too different to the rest of the ships.

Also, the International Bounty Board (IBB) is actually part of Ship/Weapon Pack, not Vayra's Sector, which actually adds a different bounty system entirely.

Any reason not to suggest Nexerelin? Too much to add for a enw player perhaps?

Other than that, I use most of these mods myself, among others. (Except for Borken. Need to look into that one and maybe get the new 4chan version)
Ah, thank you for that correction, I'll change that now. The other mods I use are listed by crimson sky gaurdian (like nex).

Borken has some seriously unique weapon mechanics (TENTACLE SHIPS!), on top of the storage service. It's pretty good.

Fair enough. Borken looks pretty interesting, but I just started a new save and have like 5 hours in it so far. I don't really want to start a new game, this is like the third time in a week :( I just keep adding new mods that need a fresh save.
Gotcha, Yea I'm at the point where I'm not keen on adding more mods, but I might add 1-2 more depending on what they do.
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2019, 12:13:17 AM »

I'm going to be a shameless twat and say Steelclads. Heavy on the boom-boom and content.
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2019, 06:21:40 AM »

I'm going to be a shameless twat and say Steelclads. Heavy on the boom-boom and content.
It definitely is content heavy. I never tried it, but I think it looks great and I'm glad you picked it back up and reworked it :)
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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2019, 03:13:40 PM »

Luddic Enhancement should be up there as well - a mod that adds some ship skins to Luddic Church and Luddic Path, and helps strengthen their position in the sector in Corvus Nexerellin games.

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=15084.0

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Re: Looking for recommend/ mega mods/ quality of life mods
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2019, 04:46:31 PM »

Luddic Enhancement should be up there as well - a mod that adds some ship skins to Luddic Church and Luddic Path, and helps strengthen their position in the sector in Corvus Nexerellin games.

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=15084.0

While I do admittedly use it. I am not sure how much it really does in my game atm. Luddic church has around 8-10 settlements atm, And I know several of the pack mods I list give them ships/weapons etc.
But IMO the hegemony just needs to be nerfed to about 10-12 settlements from (I think) the 15-20 they start with. They start with a lot more than any other. Independents and pirates start with a lot too, but they don't go conquering planets en masse lol.
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