[Starsector Mods][0.9.1a] Galaxy Tigers faction (v1.4.4) – Not The End Yet

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The Galaxy Tigers

Update 1.4.4 : Technically save compatible

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V1.4.0 update balanced once more the Tigris star system. While it doesn’t break saves, the balancing will not be applied on your current save. You can either begin a new save, or go to each of Tigris’ planets and run the following commands using Console Commands (you can simply copy and paste them).
– On each planet that have a waystation : removeindustry waystation
– On Gassus : removecondition low_gravity;addcondition high_gravity;removeindustry highcommand;removeindustry starfortress_mid;addindustry patrolhq;addindustry battlestation_mid
– On Tergess : removecondition ore_moderate;addcondition ore_sparse
– On Assekia : removeindustry fuelprod
– On Enkluss : removeindustry orbitalworks;removeindustry starfortress_high;addindustry orbitalworks;addindustry battlestation_high
– On Kelmine : removeindustry starfortress_mid;addindustry orbitalstation_mid

Features :

  • Adds the Galaxy Tigers faction
  • Some ships of various sizes, mostly automated vessels
  • A few fighter wings
  • A few weapons
  • Some drone escort/support hullmods
  • A custom commodity
  • Compatibility with :
    • Nexerelin
    • Commissioned Crews

Quick lore about the GT :
The Galaxy Tigers are originaly a group of Tri-Tachyon employees that decided to quit the megacorp long ago before the Collapse. The reason of such a decision doesn’t seem to be remembered by anyone nowadays. The group established themselves into the Tigris star system, on a planet named Tergess. They eventually gained in reputation as a central passage point for fleets traveling from the core systems to the outer world and vice versa and thus began to grow, colonizing other planets in the system.
At some point, a loose drone mothership got in the system. Fleets approached the vessel and got an hostile reaction as a result. The battle against the automated ships lasted for days, but the faction eventually managed to get them down. GT engineers studied the drones and quickly found uses for them. As a result, the faction began producing some modified versions of them as well as their own designs combining parts from other drones.
The AI wars created tensions between the Hegemony and the GT, not to mention the Luddic Church. On the other hand, they kept good relations with their mother megacorp while creating others with the Persean League. Due to the tensions, and mostly attacks on their outer-system colonies, most of the population got evacuated back to the Tigris system which also got more secured during the process.
Nowadays, the hostilities are still here, bit the Tigris system is fortified and guarded by human and drones. Will you choose to be their ally, or their worst enemy?

And now time to show some stuff from the mod :

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The ships
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Frigates

The Cerbherd
A multi purpose frigate used to scan planets and capable to mine asteroids with its integrated Borer drones, it is also used for small convoys needing some shielded cargo holds. As if it wasn't enough, this little vessel have acceptable battle capacities being pretty agile and even more if using its maneuvering jets.

The Rana
A midline frigate only used by the Galaxy Tigers. Bringing along a medium mount and integrated Brattice (GT) drones, the Rana shouldn't be taken lightly, especially if you don't have many ships in your fleet.

The Tareb
Affectionately nicknamed "Smallslaught" (or "Smolslaught" for pirates) due to its high similarity with the Onslaught, the Tareb is some sort of a frigate-sized Onslaught, except it boards XPCs instead of TPCs.

The Tareb (P)
Simply a stolen Tareb with crude modifications and red stripes for a more piratey look, its XPCs have been overclocked to deliver devastating quick bursts, but each burst produce so much heat that the XPCs need some time to cool down.

The Truck
A two-in-one freighter that can also convey fuel. Used a lot by the GT, it is a great deal if you need freighters and tankers, but you are limited by your fleet size or by the amount of money you have.
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Destroyers

The Bandit (GT)
Inspired from a pirate design of the same name, this vessel got its uses into the faction. A utility one as a mining ship and an other one as a more tanky support ship.
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Cruisers

The Puma
Named after a feline species that used to live on Old Earth, the system of this ship (letting it switch from carrier to artillery platform) is a way to remember that a puma can leap on its prey from high places, as well as being the feline that can jump the highest.

The Aurora (GT)
A reworked Aurora hull to fit a heavier cruiser profile. Slower but yet deadly.

The Kandorig
Multi purpose ship combining carrier, salvage rig and mining utilities. Not much weapon slots, but look at it! It’s orange! On a more serious note though, the right and left parts are separate modules than can also be armed the way you want, and with a good loadout this ship can become a real threat.
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Capitals

The Conquest (GT)
A Conquest design fitting the faction’s preferences. Tankier and modifications on weapon slots.

The Atlas Fortress
Inspired from an Atlas Mk. II design, the side weapon mounts got removed to make access to the newly added fighter bays easier.

The Onslaught (A)
An emergency Onslaught design used by the Hegemony when lacking time to assemble actual Onslaught backs. Using an Atlas’ back as its engine, the vessel is nonetheless functionnal, but kind of weakened due to its missing missile slots.
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The drones
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Frigate-sized drones

The Sentry (GT)
Getting improved agility and an additional turret slot, this Sentry flies around with grace while being able to launch a missile swarm.

The Picket (GT)
Getting improved agility and interesting modifications on its hardpoints, the Picket (GT) is a very decent scouting craft and has many other uses.

The Warden (GT)
Getting improved agility, the Warden (GT) is a reliable small and cheap support craft.

The Defender (GT)
Getting improved agility and modifications on its frontal mounts, this Defender is very versatile and can serve as a scouting craft or even an escort one.

The Shank
An original GT design, the Shank is their heaviest frigate-sized drone. A truthworthy allrounder with a decent frontal firepower, but also mounts to cover its flanks.

The Hawkeye
An original GT design, the Hawkeye, despite being unequiped for fighting, is a cheap but effective utility drone to survey planets and scan anything that can be scavenged.
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Destroyer-sized drones

The Bastillon (GT)
Getting improved agility and the “Spider Nest” ship system, the Bastillon (GT) can do what a Defender (GT) does, but with more turrets.

The Berserker (GT)
Getting improved agility and modifications on some turret slots, this Berserker is an effective escort drone with a dangerous frontal fire power.

The Keeper (GT)
Getting improved agility, an integrated Dual Flak Cannon and the “Spider Nest” ship system, the Keeper (GT) have been proven of being a threat with its integrated Spider Drone wings.

The Taurus
An original GT design, the Taurus packs quite a punch. This heavy drone can have multiple roles and is a convenient choice if you need a vessel for quick fights.

The Trebuchet
An original GT design, the Trebuchet offers a dangerous frontal firepower for its size. Fairly dangerous, this drone is the right choice if you need some heavy support.
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Cruiser-sized drones

The Fortress (GT)
Getting improved agility and modifications on a few weapon mounts, the Fortress (GT) is an effective heavy escort and cargo craft. Mounting beam weapons on it can also have satisfying results.

The Rampart (GT)
Getting improved agility and an integrated Ion Beam, the Fortress (GT) is a very decent escort drone and can even be used on the frontline with the right loadout.

The Barn
An original GT design, the Barn can convey virtually anything, being able to house a lot of fuel, cargo and even passengers. This drone is a jack of all trades for fleets missing space but needing a tanker, a freighter and a civilian/military transporter.

The Shield Maiden
An original GT design, the Shield Maiden is a polyvalent drone capable of assuming a support role as well as a frontline one, depending of its loadout. Its Damper Field ship system makes this drone a dangerous tank able to take many hits before falling on its knees.
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Capital-sized drones

The Sanctum
An original GT design, the Sanctum might not be made to go to the frontline. It is however a fearsome carrier boarding 6 bays and 2 separate shield modules to avoid overloading, should it face unexpected threats.

The Reinforcer
An original GT design, the Reinforcer conveys 2 smaller drones that can be deployed whenever it is needed. Having a fair cargo capacity, this drone also comes with a military sized amount of weapon mounts to correctly defend itself in battle.

The Ethrom
An original GT design, the Ethrom is the frontline equivalent of the Sanctum. Holding 2 modules serving as its hangars for the fighters, this drones’ overall armament makes it a considerable opponent.
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The fighters

Brattice (GT) Drone Squad
Design inspired from a derelict fighter wing, the Brattice Drone Squad is a cheap wing that will bring a lot of help tearing enemy armor apart, slowly and steadily.

Spider Drone Swarm
Equiped of 2 Ion Cannons, the Spider Drone Swarm is a deadly foe for lone targets, disabling their turrets to make them unable to fire back.

Arrowtip Heavy Bombers
Boarding 2 Toucan Torpedoes and 2 Light Machine Guns, those Heavy Bombers will leave a big hole in enemies’ armor if they can’t stop the missiles.

Watchtower Escort Squadron
The GT equivalent of the Talon interceptors, a Watchtower is equiped with 2 Asteroid PD Systems. While they can’t operate far from their carrier, they are still very cheap to mount and is a good choice if you don’t have other cheap interceptors at your disposal.

Bristol H5S5 Armada
Efficient pressure wing, those numerous crafts will be a huge help bringing shields down with their Micro Bolter and put pressure with their missiles. They also have a special system retracting their wings when engaging a target or when being at a certain distance from their mothership that also makes them faster and more agile.

Buster B10 Armada
Another efficient pressure wing, the Buster B10 Armada is composed of 3 crafts that are armed of a Light Machine Gun and a Patience Minelayer, allowing the fighters to drop lines of static EMP mines (even though the mines don’t stay very long on the battlefield) and fight off other fighters.

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Credits
Connortron7 for letting me use some

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Audio credits
Music :
FateModified (Click here to access their NewGrounds page) for :
– Friendly GT encounter & market theme (Original music : Optimizm)
– Neutral GT encounter & market theme (Original music : Midnight Drive)

Bonnot (Click here to access their NewGrounds page) for :
– Hostile GT battle theme (Original music : Tonight We Riot)
– Hostile GT market theme (Original music : Stand Up Fight Back)

DeltaRhoGamma (Click here to access their NewGrounds page) for :
– Hostile GT encounter theme (Original music : Hokusai)

If you have feature ideas, find bugs, balance suggestions, grammar corrections, feedbacks or whatever that can be of interest, let me know here, in DM or ping me on the Discord server! (KnightOfTigers#6543)

You don't like how the Bristol H5S5 and the Buster B10 look? You can get a small alternative skin pack here!
You will then need to extract the zip into the Galaxy Tigers folder and this should do it!

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Changelog
[V 1.4.4 : 06/05/2020]
– Fixed a crash that would occur when the Combat Chatter mod was picking a ship deployed by the Reinforcer

[V 1.4.3 : 06/03/2020]
– Made the mod much lighter in terms of download size
– Fixed a crash that would occur if you docked to a GT market when hostile to them

[V 1.4.2 : 05/31/2020]
– Added a new track for GT
– Fixed a CTD that would happen if seeing a fleet with a specific hullmod still in the works

[V 1.4.1 : 05/28/2020]
– Taurus’ DP cost really buffed from 15 to 12 this time

[V 1.4.0 : 05/27/2020]
– Fixed the Toucan Torpedo Rack. It now has a correct credit cost, OP cost, ammo and a description
– Slight changes in the Bristol H5S5 and Buster B10 wing description
– Added a new mission to introduce a bit more lore about the GT
– Fixed the default variants of the Mining Bandit and the Bandit (GT) that had bomb bays
– Codex entries of the Heron (GT) and the Wrecked Baguette hidden
– Changed the description of the Onslaught (A)
– Puma’s DP cost buffed from 32 to 29
– Taurus’ DP cost buffed from 15 to 12
– Shield Maiden’s DP cost from 31 to 26, shield’s flux/damage buffed from 1 to 0.9
– Barn’s DP cost nerfed from 10 to 12
– Arrowtip’s OP cost nerfed from 15 to 16
– Raised the burn level of the Atlas Fortress and the Reinforcer from 6 to 7
– New built-in hullmods given to GT’s automated ships, depending of if they are carriers or not :
/! Many thanks to Nia Tahl and Nicke535 for the base code, taken from the Drone Carrier hullmod of Sylphon RnD!
   * For the carriers, Automated Carrier :
      -> Can’t mount manned fighters
      -> Every mounted fighter needs 20% less time to refit
      -> They also get a 10% max speed, acceleration and deceleration boost
      -> Finally, a 25% turning rate and turning acceleration boost
   * For non carriers, Automated Machinery (globally the same as above, just less impressive boosts) ;
      -> Can’t mount manned fighters
      -> Mounted fighters needs 10% less time to refit
      -> 8% max speed, acceleration and deceleration boost
      -> 15% turning rate and turnin acceleration boost
– Tigris star system tweaks :
   * Removed all the waystations
   * Gassus’ low gravity is now high gravity
   * Gassus’ high command is now a patrol HQ
   * Gassus’ star fortress is now a battlestation
   * Tergess’ common ore deposits changed to sparse ore deposits
   * Assekia’s fuel production removed
   * Enkluss’ nanoforge in the orbital works removed
   * Enkluss’ star fortress is now a battlestation
   * Kelmine’s star fortress is now an orbital station

[V 1.3.7 : 05/21/2020]
– Fixed a strange behavior with Tiger’s MIRVs that would use their system over enemy hulks

[V 1.3.6 : 05/20/2020]
– Finally, the Galaxy Tigers design type has GT’s color
– Toucan Torpedo (Single), Asteroid PD System and Patience Minelayer now have descriptions in the codex
– The Toucan Torpedo (Single) can now be mounted on ships
– The Asteroid PD System can now be mounted on ships
– New weapon : Toucan Torpedo Rack. Holds 2 Toucan Torpedoes
– Arrowtip wing balance :
   * Asteroid PD Systems switched for Light Machine Guns
   * The Toucan Torpedoes now fly for 5 seconds instead of 4

[V 1.3.5 : 05/19/2020]
– Removed the Heron (GT) from the GT base blueprint pack
– Fixed the hostile GT dialogues
– Fixed a bug that would occur when a Reinforcer would use its ship system under very specific conditions
– New fighter : the Buster B10. Leaves lines of EMP mines behind it, sometimes directly hitting hulls if mines are dropped while the fighter flies over one.
– Arrowtip wing balance :
   * Harpoons and Sabot missiles switched for 2 Toucan Torpedoes (slow but high energy payload)
   * OP cost buffed from 20 to 15
   * Hull integrity nerfed from 550 to 300

[V 1.3.4 : 05/14/2020]
– Added the hullmods incompatibility to the Drone Support hullmods
– Replaced the Herons (GT) by Pumas in the Nex starting fleets

[V 1.3.3 : 05/13/2020]
– The two ships deployed by the Reinforcer will now escort it by default
– Fixed a bug coming from the Drone Support hullmods bugfix of version 1.3.2
– Former Drone Support hullmods names changed :
   * Defender Escort is now known as – Drone Support : Defender Escort
   * Sentry Support is now known as – Drone Support : Pressure Sentry
   * Warden Support is now known as – Drone Support : Polyvalent Warden
– Small overhaul of the Drone Support hullmods :
   * Replacement rate of the generated wings varies depending of hull size (with 100% efficiency)
      -> 10 seconds for capital ships
      -> 20 seconds for cruisers
      -> 40 seconds for destroyers
   * If the ship is a frigate, it will be able to spawn 1 drone only.
   * Sentry and Warden wings mobility buffed
   * Weapons of the Warden wing from the Drone Support : Polyvalent Warden hullmod changed :
      -> Heavy Mauler switched for an Arbalest Autocannon
      -> Micro Bolter switched for a Light Assault Gun
   * Hullmod costs reviewed to take in account the new replacement rates
– New drone hullmods :
   * Drone Support : Sentry Escort
      -> Armed with anti-fighter missiles, a Vulcan Cannon and an Annihilator Rocket Pod
   * Drone Support : Strike Defender
      -> Armed with 2 IR Pulse Lasers and 2 Railguns
   * Drone Support : Brawling Picket
      -> Armed with a Light Mortar, a Light Dual Autocannon and a Wallbrick Gun
   * Drone Support : Picket Escort
      -> Armed with PD weapons

[V 1.3.2 : 05/05/2020]
– Finished the sprite rework of the Ethrom
– Some ships have now new blinkers. It’s useless, but it’s pretty
– Fixed the default variant of the Kandorig by giving it actual Annihilators and not the ones for fighters
– Fixed the Tiger’s MIRV missiles that would sometimes teleport in a ship if it is too big
– If a Tiger’s MIRV missile fails to split after teleporting, it will vanish out of existence while leaving EMP arcs if it goes too far away of its target
– Added a description to the Truck
– Fixed a bug that would occur when trying to mount one of the Drone Support hullmod. If your ship has empty bays, you will now be required to fill them first before mounting the hullmod
– Tweaked the credit values of almost every ships
– Tweaked the credit values of every fighters
– Tweaked the credit values of every weapons
– Made the Wrecked Baguette and the Heron (GT) unavailable. You can still console them into yout fleet in campaign mode
– Nerfed the Arrowtip’s Harpoons by giving them less range
– Buffed the Shrapnolt Gun’s spread from 45 degrees to 35
– Buffed the Sanctum’s spinning shields from 7500 flux to 9000 and from 0.8 efficiency to 0.6
– Atlas Fortress buffs :
   * More overall speed and agility
   * Civilian-Grade hullmod removal
– Nerfed the Mining Bandit’s built-in Mining Blaster arc to let it shoot only straight forward
– New ship : The Puma-class artillery carrier. Has a system to switch from carrier to artillery mode

[V 1.3.1 : 04/18/2020]
– The performance issue that occurred when using V1.3.0 of GT should be fixed
– The Wallbrick Gun and Cannon should be used more correctly by the autofit
– Added a faction leader for GT
– Slight sprite rework on the Ethrom (not completely done)

[V 1.3.0 : 04/15/2020]
– Added a settings file to let players disable abandoned GT stations generation on new saves
– Added a showcase mission to let you test GT ships without having to get them in campaign mode
– Hopefully fixed a very rare bug that would make player produced Kandorigs having no modules and thus causing a crash
– Added custom themes for the faction as well as a combat theme playing when you’re hostile to them
– Changed and added starting fleets for Nexerelin
– Less abandoned GT stations should spawn on new saves
– Tweaked the probabilities of diplomatic events between GT and other factions for Nexerelin
– Added support for the special task forces of Nexerelin
– Tweaked down the number of ships in abandoned GT stations
– Tweaked down the number of ships a typical GT fleet would have, so the invasion fleets in Nex shouldn’t be as OP as before
– Changed the name of the Atlas (H) and its Battlefreighter classfication to Onslaught (A) Emergency Battleship, otherwise it remains the same ship as before
– Changed the name of the Smolslaught to Tareb. It remains the same as before and the description refers to the old name
– Reduced even more the Wrecked Baguette spawn rate for it to be a rare spawn (normally)
– Raised the OP cost of the automated escort hullmods. New values are :
   -> 6/12/18/24 for the Defender Escort
   -> 7/14/21/28 for the Warden Escort
   -> 9/18/27/36 for the Sentry Escort
– Nerfed the Defender Escort deploying range from 1500 to 800
– Buffed Atlas Fortress DP from 35 to 30
– Buffed the Defender (GT) DP from 3 to 2
– Nerfed the Bastillon (GT) DP from 8 to 10 and buffed its hull from 4000 to 4250
– Nerfed the Cerbherd DP from 5 to 7
– Buffed a special ship to give it more range
– Nerfed the Spider Nest drone system. It will now only spawn 5 PD drones instead of 12 and has a reserve of 5 other drones
– Nerfed the Spider Drone Swarm (fighter wing) by giving it high delay Ion Cannons instead of standard ones, OP cost buffed from 15 to 12
– Increased the fuel consumption of the Kandorig of 1 unit per light year
– Toned down the smoke trails of the Bristols
– Removed the hammer from the Ethrom since it was particularly useless, changed the ship system to burn drive and made the right module tankier
– Nerfed planet conditions of planets in the Tigris star system to reduce the overall market share GT has
– Added a new structure to Tergess : the Drone Platform (spawns drone patrols for GT)
– New weapons : The Tiger’s MIRV family. Missile launchers of various sizes launching special missiles that can “teleport” once
– New weapon : The Deactite Waver. Sends 3 EMP arcs forward in multiple directions dealing EMP damage having 50% chance to arc to other weapons and engines.
– New weapon : The Wallbrick Gun. Fires 3 projectiles powerful enough to knock back any hull they hit.
– New weapon : The Wallbrick Cannon. Similar to the Wallbrick Gun, just fires 4 projectiles instead of 3 that have stronger knockback potential
– Weapon modification : The Lighter Needler is now known as the Micro Bolter and has a new sprite. Otherwise it remains the same as before.
– New fighter wing : The Watchtower Escort Squadron. GT’s equivalent of the Talon wing
– New ship : The Reinforcer-class Drone Conveyer. Houses 2 drones that it can deploy by using its system.
– New ship : The Truck-class Freighter Tank. A simple Buffalo hybrid with the right side being a tank.
– Returning ships : Anvil Industries’ drones! Some of them were manned drones but that got changed. Here’s the list of the ones rising from the dead (some got their names changed) :
   -> Arrowtip drone fighter
   -> Hawkeye utility drone
   -> Shank combat drone
   -> Taurus combat drone
   -> Trebuchet combat drone
   -> Shield Maiden drone cruiser
   -> Barn freighter drone
   -> Sanctum heavy drone carrier

[V 1.2.1 : 02/01/2020]
– Slight rework on generation of abandoned habitats, mining stations and research station to avoid accidental overshadowing of other mods and vanilla generated stuff
– Rana’s DP buffed from 9 to 8
– Little tweak on the Rana’s variants

[V 1.2.0 : 01/28/2020]
– Tweak for Tergess’ industries : gets a new one being an AI Repurposing Facility trading the Refining. You can either start a new game to see it or if you have Console Commands, go to Tergess and enter the following commands :
   removeindustry refining
   addindustry galaxytigers_ai_repurpose_facility
– Fixed a bug for the Ethrom that would happen when trying to add a wing to one of its modules
– Reduced the Wrecked Baguette spawn rate, it was spawning too massively
– New weapon : Shrapnolt Gun, mainly a large ballistic point defense shotgun
– New weapon : Meteor Strike Cannon, a large ballistic suppression “machinegun” dealing energy damage
– New ships : The First Generation GT drones. They’re like the actual ones, but slightly different. Will you find one?
– New ship : The Rana, Midline GT exclusive ship. I’m pretty sure it can become fairly powerful in goods hands.
A bit of nerf for the Wrecked Baguette :
– Turn rate of the Wrecked Baguette nerfed from 25 to 15
– Flux capacity downed from 15000 to 13000
– Flux vents slapped from 600 to 570
Slap of nerf in the Smolslaught’s face (including the pirate one) :
– Normal XPC now fire every 0.8 second instead of 0.5
– Armor reduced to 325
– Hull integrity reduced to 3000
– Every medium mounts changed to small mounts (excepted the medium ballistic)
– DP buffed from 12 to 9

[V 1.1.2 : 01/11/2020]
Hotfix to take care of the overspawning of certain ships and spawn weighings
– New ship : The Ethrom, some kind of mother droneship (it looks kinda horrible but I’ll work on the sprite someday)

[V 1.1.1 : 01/06/2020]
Hotfix version fixing some stuff related to Nexerelin :
– A crash occuring when trying to generate random core worlds
– The Tigris and Croissann systems being generated with random core worlds enabled
– Some tweaks for industries generated in GT markets still with random core worlds enabled

[V 1.1.0 : 12/23/2019]
– Fixed a bug with the Defender Drone Escort hullmod that would occur when trying to mount it when all of your wings are empty or when the game tried to generate a ship using it before placing the wings
– Added the Kandorig, a carrier rig and survey ship
– Added the Smolslaught. It’s self explanatory
– Added the Cerbherd
– Adjusted the Spider Drone wing to 2 fighters per wing and added 50 more hullpoints to them
– Balanced the Bristol wing weapons to a lighter needler shooting 5 projectiles every 3 seconds and a annihilator shooting 3 rockets
– Raised the Brattice (GT) wing cost from 2 to 3 OP
– Reskinned the Bristol wing and added a ship system retracting its wings and making it more agile when engaging in combat or when they are 150 su away from their mothership
– Speaking of reskins, reworked every other GT skins that looked insanely ugly (excepted for the Conquest (GT), it’s in an acceptable state but I’ll eventually redo it), they should look a bit better now
– Added the lighter needler weapon : Shoots bursts of 5 projectiles every 3 seconds. Costs 5 OP to mount.
– 2 new hullmods : Sentry Drone Support and Warden Drone Support
– Made the drone support hullmods incompatible with each other and converted hangar
– Removed the cryosanctum from Tergess in the Tigris star system
– Made some aesthetic changes to the Tigris star system and added an inactive gate in it. You’ll need to begin a new save to see those
– Reworked many variants to give them better weapon groups and such
– Adjusted some stuff with Nexerelin and added traits to the faction
– Added compatibility with the following mods :
   – Commissioned crews
   – Version checker
– Added faction relationships with the following mods :
   – Anvil Industries
   – Blackrock Drive Yards
   – ApproLight
   – Dassault-Mikoyan Engineering
   – Diable Avionics

[V 1.0.0]
– Initial release

Looking good so far. I'll scoop this up for my new run despite the Bristol wing not making any sense. (Maybe have a non-atmosphere dependent ship reskin available as a side download in future updates?)

Looking good so far. I'll scoop this up for my new run despite the Bristol wing not making any sense. (Maybe have a non-atmosphere dependent ship reskin available as a side download in future updates?)

I'm currently working on a pure aesthetic ship system for the bristol that will retract its wings when engaging in combat. I may also do a bit of work on its skin to make it feel more like a spaceship ^^

That one sprite is from Steambirds, good choice.

I'll be adding this today.

Update 1.1.0 ;D
Hotfix 1.1.1! Changelog :
Fixes some stuff related to Nexerelin :
- A crash occuring when trying to generate random core worlds
- The Tigris and Croissann systems being generated with random core worlds enabled
- Some tweaks for industries generated in GT markets still with random core worlds enabled

It should be save compatible if you were using version 1.1.0 ;D
If you were stille playing with the first release version, I would recommend you to begin a new save to profit of the new content that v1.1.0 brings :)

Quick hotfix 1.1.2! Changelog :
Takes care of the overspawning of certain ships and spawn weighings
- New ship : The Ethrom, some kind of mother droneship

Save compatible if you were using version 1.1+;D
Have fun playing with this mod :D

The mess hall crew is quite insistent that they need to be part of salvage team after that ship is neutralized.

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Version 1.2.0! More drones and balancing!

Yes, it's save compatible (almost, but it don't cause any crash or bug I'm aware of)

If you encounter any bug, or if you have anything to say, feel free to contact me!

Changelog :
- Tweak for Tergess' industries : gets a new one being an AI Repurposing Facility trading the Refining. You can either start a new game to see it or if you have Console Commands, go to Tergess and enter the following commands :
   removeindustry refining
   addindustry galaxytigers_ai_repurpose_facility
- Fixed a bug for the Ethrom that would happen when trying to add a wing to one of its modules
- Reduced the Wrecked Baguette spawn rate, it was spawning too massively
- New weapon : Shrapnolt Gun, mainly a large ballistic point defense shotgun
- New weapon : Meteor Strike Cannon, a large ballistic suppression "machinegun" dealing energy damage
- New ships : The First Generation GT drones. They're like the actual ones, but slightly different. Will you find one?
- New ship : The Rana, Midline GT exclusive ship. I'm pretty sure it can become fairly powerful in goods hands.
A bit of nerf for the Wrecked Baguette :
- Turn rate of the Wrecked Baguette nerfed from 25 to 15
- Flux capacity downed from 15000 to 13000
- Flux vents slapped from 600 to 570
Slap of nerf in the Smolslaught's face (including the pirate one) :
- Normal XPC now fire every 0.8 second instead of 0.5
- Armor reduced to 325
- Hull integrity reduced to 3000
- Every medium mounts changed to small mounts (excepted the medium ballistic)
- DP buffed from 12 to 9

I've been playing around with sector generation lately and I think your mod is preventing the generation of some of the special themed systems like those for ruins, research stations, etc. Having taken a look at your source code, I don't think it's intentional, but in your efforts to add hidden goodies to several systems, you're also creating 20 constellations that cannot be used by the vanilla sector creation logic for its own special systems. Making matters worse, those 20 constellations also take up space that the vanilla logic would normally use to create its own constellations. Given that the game only tries to generate 100 constellations max (and usually only has physical space to generate around 50 to 60 total), that means the vanilla logic is losing access to anywhere from one-fifth to one-third of the systems as candidates for special systems.

Fortunately, the fix is fairly simple and is actually already being used by a few other mods already. It takes advantage of the fact that vanilla's list of theme generators is both public and static. As an added bonus, it significantly reduces the amount of code required to add your special systems. Basically, you should be able to replace all of your constellation logic in GTGen.java with just one line of code like this:

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    @Override
    public void generate(SectorAPI sector) {
        SharedData.getData().getPersonBountyEventData().addParticipatingFaction("galaxytigers");

        initFactionRelationships(sector);

        SectorThemeGenerator.generators.add(1, new GalaxyTigersThemeGenerator());

        if (sector.getStarSystem("Corvus") != null) {
            new Tigris().generate(sector);
            //new Testo().generate(sector);
            new Croissann().generate(sector);
        }
    }

You’ll probably also need to add the following import statement as well:

import com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.procgen.themes.SectorThemeGenerator;

On a related note, one thing those other mods (Dassault-Mikoyan Engineering, Sanguinary Anarchist Defenders, etc.) have in common is that they also provide settings so the user can control roughly how many special systems get generated. This is especially useful for people who use mods like Adjusted Sector to increase the sector size. Anyway, that's a feature you may want to consider implementing yourself at some point in the future...

Thank you Morathar for letting me know this issue and the code snippet ;D
I'll fix this within a week maximum ;)
Any plan on adding IBB ship(s)?
+1 on that IBB bounties, if that's not too much to ask.

I have some minor concerns;
you were overly generous with the amount of markets the sytem have, all of them exclusively to the Galaxy Tigers, making the steamroll even entire alliances the Hegemony forms, also for being Tri-tachyon expatriates they didn't get really inventive with their name huh? don't get me wrong, Galaxy Tigers is catchy, but it sounds like a football team, why not make Galaxy Tigers Industries, Galactic Tigris Systems, The Tergess Systems, Tigris United Colonial Systems, Tigris Republic.. It feels odd having it show like that, but hey, your call, I'm just being a bit nitpicky and I must say, your mod is one of the best looking factions available

Thank you for sharing it with us.

IBBs are a closed and curated system, you want to look into HVBs instead.
Editing this post to avoid double post :
Update 1.2.1, here's the changelog :
- Slight rework on generation of abandoned habitats, mining stations and research station to avoid accidental overshadowing of other mods and vanilla generated stuff
- Rana's DP buffed from 9 to 8
- Little tweak on the Rana's variants

+1 on that IBB bounties, if that's not too much to ask.

I have some minor concerns;
you were overly generous with the amount of markets the sytem have, all of them exclusively to the Galaxy Tigers, making the steamroll even entire alliances the Hegemony forms, also for being Tri-tachyon expatriates they didn't get really inventive with their name huh? don't get me wrong, Galaxy Tigers is catchy, but it sounds like a football team, why not make Galaxy Tigers Industries, Galactic Tigris Systems, The Tergess Systems, Tigris United Colonial Systems, Tigris Republic.. It feels odd having it show like that, but hey, your call, I'm just being a bit nitpicky and I must say, your mod is one of the best looking factions available

Thank you for sharing it with us.

I wasn't planning into adding IBB bounties for now, and as MesoTroniK said the IBBs aren't that "open" so I can't really fiddle around freely with that. i'll think about HVB though, this might be a good idea to have at least 2 or 3 bounties with unique ships and such.
For the name I may do something for this and may go for your first suggestion (Galaxy Tigers Industries sounds really great) since I want Galaxy Tigers to remain in the whole name, but again I'll think about it too.
Also for the number of markets the system has, don't forget that they only have 1 system while some other factions tend to have markets in at least 2 systems. GT have claimed the Tigris system being their own so to speak. The best I can eventually do is nerf some market conditions some Tigris' planets have.

Anyways, thanks a lot for your feedback and I'm glad that this mod pleases you ;D

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