[Starsector Mods][0.95.1a] Volkov Industrial Conglomerate 1.4.3

Changes:
– -Changed VIC ships name prefix from “VIC” to “ASCV” (Aerospace Corps Vessel)

Bugfixes:
– – Fixed crash related to B-Series “Fortress” Protocol hullmod
– -Fixed crash related to Vila Bolt Converger

– Fixed the bug when Omni-lunge system sends the ships into Oblivion
– Removed debug text from Omni-lunge system

Now compatible with 0.95.1a

Ship systems:
– Omni-lunge:
– – Now works more like directional plasma burn with turn rate boost
– – Distance per lunge reduced by ~40-50%
– – Max charges increased from 3 to 5
– – Time to regenerate 1 charge reduced from 10s to 5s

– Assault Reconfiguration (previously known as Adaptive Assault)
– – Removed scaling with hybridization
– – Now increases damage of ballistic and energy weapons by 50% in all cases
– – Now also increases shield damage taken by 25%

Ships/Fighters:
#ships
– All:
– – A small visual update of sprites courtesy of Nes
– – Added smoke engine trails

#fighters
– All:
– – Added engine trails to all fighters
– – Fighters in Engage mode are now forced to continuously accelerate and move at maximum speed without strafing or decelerating, resulting in a more cinematic and plane-like way of movement

– Uvall Interceptor:
– – Rarog swapped for Proxy Mine Launcher
– – Hull increased from 350 to 450
– – Armor increased from 75 to 100

#frigates
– VIC-X14 Nybbas:
– – Now uses Vanilla Phase cloak
– – Phae Upkeep reduced from 500 to 240
– – Base speed increased from 90 to 110
– – Removed Aerodynamic Design and Phase Field hullmods
– – Added Adaptive Phase Coils and Phase Anchor hullmods

– VIC-A01 Xaphan
– – Dissipation increased from 210 to 240

#destroyers
– VIC-B49 Samael
– – Armor increased from 400 to 550
– – Hull increased from 3500 to 4500
– – Turn acceleration increased from 8.5 to 12
– – Max flux increased from 6000 to 7400

– VIC-A33 Moloch
– – Armor increased from 350 to 450

#cruisers

– VIC-B62 Thamuz
– – Armor increased from 700 to 850
– – Hull increased from 7500 to 8500
– – Max turn speed increased from 12.5 to 15
– – Turn acceleration increased from 4.15 to 7
– – Max flux increased from 9000 to 11000

– VIC-A58 Valafar
– – Armor increased from 600 to 800
– – Dissipation increases from 600 to 650

#caps
– VIC-A71 Apollyon
– – Armor increased from 1000 to 1200
– – Fleet points reduced from 35 to 30

– VIC-U61 Oriax
– – Armor increased from 800 to 1000

Weapons:
– Heavy Laidlaw Accelerator:
– – OP cost decreased from 35 to 30
– – Changed damage type from Energy to Fragmentation
– – Damage per shot increased from 500 to 2000
– – Refire delay increased from 1.25 to 4.25
– – Flux per shot increased from 650 to 1000
– – On-hit explosion’s area increased
– – On hit explosion’s damage increased from 400 to 500
– – Projectile visuals updated (again)

– Laidlaw Accelerator:
– – Changed damage type from Energy to Fragmentation
– – Damage per shot increased from 500 to 2000
– – Refire delay increased from 1.5 to 4.5
– – Flux per shot increased from 750 to 1200
– – On-hit explosion’s area increased
– – On hit explosion’s damage increased from 400 to 500
– – Projectile visuals updated (again)

– Laidlaw Mass Driver:
– – Changed damage type from Energy to Fragmentation
– – Damage per shot increased from 250 to 1000
– – Refire delay increased from 1.5 to 4.5
– – Flux per shot increased from 375 to 600
– – On-hit explosion’s area increased
– – On hit explosion’s damage increased from 200 to 250
– – Projectile visuals updated (again)

– Zlydzen Wave Destabilizer:
– – Changed debuff effect:
– – Ramp up time increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds
– – Wear off time increased from 2 seconds to 4 seconds
– – Shield efficiency reduction increased from 10% to 25%
– – Shield upkeep increase reduced from 50% to 25%
– – Phase cloak cooldown increase removed
– – Phase cloak activation cost increase removed
– – Flux dissipation reduction removed
– – Reduction for armor efficiency increased from 10% to 25%

– Vila Bolt Converger:
– – Sustained DPS increased from 210 to 255
– – Fixed crash if ship dies while charging

– Balachko Cryoheat Generator:
– – Damage reduction on hull hits reduced from 50% to 35%

– Psotnik Interference Autocannon
– Psotnik Interference Machinegun
– – Added smoke trails to projectiles

Hullmods:
– “Fervor” Protocol:
– – Now increases damage dealt only if you close enough to target
– – Damage increase fall off starts at 500SU at gets to 0% at 700SU (range is from edges of collision circles so it’s a bit bigger on practice)
– – Penalty from installing on non VIC ships removed
– – Range penalty removed

– PD Arc Emitter:
– – Now deals energy damage
– – Now doesn’t flameout missiles
– – Description now states that Arc Emitter scales with stats for energy weapons

– Convoy drive:
– – Range increase changed from 10% increase to increase by factor of x1.25

– Laidlaw Tech:
– – Description changed a bit

– “Hellstorm” Weapon System(Xaphan build-in):
– – Now also increase ammo recharge rate of ballistic and missile weapons by 100%
– – A new icon, yay

– A-Series “Shturm” Protocol:
– – Removed capacity reduction
– – Removed dissipation increase
– – No longer changes effect of capacitors
– – Now increases shield upkeep by 100%
– – Now increases dissipation by 100% if shield is disabled
– – Range threshold changed from 500/600/800/1000 to 500/700/900/1100
– – Now Increases speed by 20/15/10/10
– – Now reduces peak performance time by 50%

– Inertia Redirection Systems (previously “Integrated Assault Systems)
– – Increases acceleration and deceleration when changing direction of movement
– – A new icon, yay

– B-Series “Fortress” Protocol (rework):
– – Can only be installed on wing shaped ships(need better name for that)
– – Reduces damage taken by shields by 30%
– – Reduces damage and flux cost for energy and ballistic weapons by 25%
– – Changes system to reduce shield damage taken by 50% and reduce damage of ballistic and  by 25%

Campaign:
– Replaced Lowtech stations for VIC with Midline ones (including in Nexerelin)
– Pristine nanoforge on Phlegethon swapped for corrupted nanoforge
– Added special condition to Phlegethon to compensate for lost ship quality
– Transfiguration Solutions 15% hazard penalty replaced with 25% accessibility penalty, also removed biolab installation mention from the description
– VIC Revitalization Center base income/upkeep reduced from 28000/50000 at size 6 to 12000/24000 at size 6
– Nexerelin starts now have Buffalo(VIC) instead of Buffalo(A)
– Station in secret system now has Buffalo(VIC) instead of Xaphan
– Removed respec option for the player in Revitalization Center (still can respec officers)
– Pelenu Laukas moved a bit to not overlap with Penelope
– Fixed the descriptions of Kalada market in Ittir system, now should actually be shown properly

Other:
– Lots of other small fixes and stuff that we might have forgotten, whoops
– A couple of spoiler portraits for future stuff
– A new hot meme artwork by Luzaitis (bless them)

Campaign:
   
– Fixed VIC markets not having positive growth rate     
– Fixed officer respec making officers not being affected by skills, which resulted in lesser officer levels after the respec     
– Fixed Extreme Viral Contamination not reducing size of markets over time   
– Updated Extreme Viral Contamination icon

Misc:

– Removed archive with memes     
– Added link to imgur post with VIC memes (can be found in the graphics folder)

Ships:

Nybbas

– Now counts as phase ship for Phase Corps skill

– Baryonic Displacement

– – Fixed description

Pruflas

– New System

– – Minelayer

– – Launches several proxy fused frag mines

Cresil

– Emergency Defense

– – Fixed sever FPS drop with some fighters

Oriax

– Hull reduced from 12000 to 9000

– Flux capacity reduced from 17000 to 15000

– Turn rate reduced from 15 to 10

 Kobal, Samael, Thamuz

– Adaptive Assault

– – Fixed description

Weapons:

Capacitons Discharger

– Damage increased from 150 to 300

– fkux cost increased from 225 to 480

– EMP increased from 80 to 160

– Max ammo reduced from 30 to 16

– Chargeup and chargedown increased from 0.075 to 0.15

Tugarin Stellar Catapult

– Refire increased from 3.75 to 4 seconds

– Flux to fire increased from 1680 to 1860

Rubezahl Thermal Lance

– Tier increased from 0 to 3

– Damage Reduced from 2400 to 2250

– Burst duration increased from 0.5 to 0.75 seconds

Zlydzen Wave Destabilizer

– Fixed rare crash

Gagana Smartdart Launcher

– Flux cost increased from 220 to 250

Abyssus Array

– Fixed rare NPE

Psotnik Interference Machinegun

– Fixed hardpoint offsets

Vodyanoy Plasma Minigun

– Fixed AI hints, now should also aim at fighters

Laidlaw family (Mass Driver, Accelerator, Heavy Accelerator)

– Fixed AI hints, now should properly shoot at frigates

Other:

– Fixed a couple of planet descriptions

Ships:
Jezebeth
-Defense Suppressor System
–Added description

Oriax
-Flux Rapture System
–Added description
-Power Redistributor hullmod
–Now more reliably switches modes when the ship is controlled by AI

Hullmods:
PD Arc Emitter
-Now doesn’t crash if installed on a fighter (screw you gettag)((jk, we still love you))

VIC Integrated Assault Systems
-Fixed increase of PPT by 3% if stacking penalty is not applied

Weapons:
Zlydzen Wave Destabilizer
-Now effect fall rate scales with the target’s time dilation
-Now effect falls off 2 times slower if the target is phased

Verlioka Field Disruptor
-Fixed field effect lagging behind

Misc:
-Changed and fixed most variants
-VIC now builds anti EVC structures if they own the market with EVC market condition(if they invade the Vbombed market or if their market got Vbombed)
-Fixed VIC being at 0 rep with remnants

Ships:

A brand new ship – VIC-U61 Oriax Battlecruiser. A versatile and manouverable capital-grade vessel, capable of everything, but not excelling at anything in particular.

VIC-X14 Nybbas:
-OP reduced from 60 to 55
-Flux dissipation decreaed from 450 to 350
-Max flux increased from 2500 to 3000
-Max speed redused from 120 to 90
-Phase activation cost reduced from 175 to 150
-phase upkeep increased from 200 to 450
-Experimental Phase Drive:
– Phase CD reduction removed
– Weapons flux cost reduction reduced from 25% to 20%
– Weapon range reduction reduced from 35% to 30%
-Baryonic Displacement:
– Flux cost removed
– Now can’t be used while phased
– CD increased from 2 to 6 seconds
-New Right click system Phase Dive
– More time dilation
– More Speed
– More Flux cost
– Longer Cooldown

VIC-S85 Pruflas:
-OP reduced from 50 to 45
-Flux dissipation reduced from 300 to 240
-Flux capacity increased from 2000 to 2600

VIC-A71 Apollyon:
-Improved AI,  should be less suicidal when commencing Quantum Lunge
-Changed Abyssus Array built-in: tweaked the direction of launch, now costs flux to fire, more sustained damage

VIC-B19 Kobal, VIC-B49 Samael, VIC-B62 Thamuz:
-Adaptive Assault:
– Fixed incorrect combat status
– Fixed incorrect damage increase values
-New built-in hullmod – Convoy Drive
– Increases 0-flux speed bonus and slightly increases the range of ballistic and energy weaponry

Figher wings:
-VIC-F11 Shabriri Drone:
– Hull decreased from 120 to 75
– Flux capacity decreased from 250 to 200
– Flux dissipation decreased from 100 to 50

Weapons:

5 brand new weapons:
Rubezahl Thermal Lance – Large Energy
– Extreme HE damage
– Limited sustained fire capability
– Slow and highly visible chargeup

Zlydzen Wave Destabilizer – Large Energy
– Support-focused debuff weapon
– Applies various debuffs depending on whether the shield or the hull of the enemy are hit by the beam
– Pretty useless damage-wise on its own

Balachko Cryoheat Generator – Medium Energy
– Alternating HE and Kinetic damage, excels at bringing down enemy’s defences
– Subpar hull damage

Vila Impulse Converger – Medium Energy
– Unusual projectile trajectory, perfect accuracy (if used correctly and precisely)
– High burst potential
– Low-end sustained damage

Psotnik Interference Machinegun – Medium Ballistic
– Potent anti-shield suppression and
– Very low damage per projectile

Capacitons Discharger:
-Damage increased from 150 to 300
-EMP increased from 80 to 160
-Max ammo reduced from 30 to 16
-Chargeup and chargedown increased from 0.075 to 0.15

Tugarin Stellar Catapult:
-Projectile speed no longer gets affected by the ship’s speed twice as much

Strigoy Flak Cannon – reworked, now performs like a true flak cloud dispenser:
-Burst size increased from 2 to 10
-Damage reduced from 50 to 30
-DPS increased from 250 to 300
-range reduced from 400 to 350

Laidlaw Accelerators family – reworked, now perform worse against shields, but better againt hulls:
– Now deal soft flux against shields
– The fragmentation explosion damage on hits against hull increased to 200 (Laidlaw Mass Driver) and 400 (Laidlaw Accelerator and Heavy Laidlaw Accelerator)
– Heavy Laidlaw Accelerator now fires from both barrels simultaneously with perfect accuracy
– Heavy Laidlaw Accelerator OP cost increased from 30 to 35
– Improved visuals
– Improved sounds

Other weapons:
– Various visual improvements

Hullmods:
Aerodynamic Design:
-Ground support changed from 10/20/30/40 to 10/20/30/50

Laidlaw Resonance Shields:
-Renamed to Laidlaw Tech
-Now also:
– Reduces ballistic range by 10%
– Increases energy weapons range by 100 su
– Reduces beam weapons range by 100 su
– Reduces energy weapon flux generation by 10%

VIC Integrated Assault Systems:
-Weapon flux reduction changed from 5%/10%/20%/30% to 20%
-Speed bonus reduced from 10/10/20/20 to 5/10/20/25
-Projectile speed bonus reduced from 33% o 30%
-PPT penalty reduced from 33% to 30%
-OP cost increased from 4/8/15/25 to 7/11/15/25
-Now cant be instaled on non-VIC ships

VIC “Fortress” Protocol:
-Shield damage taken reduction increased from 13% to 35%
-Now reduces the chance that shields will be pierced by EMP arcs by 75%
-Shield upkeep now icreased by 25% instead of being reduced by 25%
-Shield unfold and turn speed now reduced by 50% instead of being increased by 50%
-Shield arc increase removed
-Now reduces ship max speed by 20%
-Now increases 0-flux speed boost by 15 SU
-OP cost reduced from 7/14/21/35 to 6/12/18/30
-Now incompatible with just SO and Hardened Shields
-Now cant be instaled on-non VIC ships

PD Arc Emitter:
-OP cost increased from 4/8/12/20 to 5/10/15/25
-Flux cost per arc increased from 25 to 35
-Now is inactive while venting or overloaded

Missions:
-Added custom description to the VIC Combat Simulation System mission

Campaign:
-Added VIC Revitalization Center industry:
– Now Revitalization Center services (portrait changing and skill respeccing) require “VIC Revitalization Center” industry on a planet, instead of the market just being owned by VIC
– VIC Revitalization Center requires genetech supply and good relations with VIC to operate
– Added VIC Revitalization Center to Cocytus, Yama, Yesod and Ailmar.

-Added new industry item for farming “Transfiguration Solutions”
– The item increases the farming output, but makes the industry demand genetech and increases the hazard rating of the planet
– Requires at least some organic deposits being present on the planet

-GMO farming industry was removed

-Some industries got moved around

-Now the secret (or not so secret) fancy system is a bit more secret

-Added the current VIC CEO to Cocytus – come say “Hello”

Misc:
-Added custom ship engine sounds
-Added characters for combat chatter
-Added some funny settings which you can configurate in data/config/modSettings.json :^)    (thanks, Tilt)
-Some little description changes for the genetech commodity, markets and so on, as usual
-Certainly some small changes that we might have forgotten in the process

Omni-lunge (VIC-A01 Xaphan, VIC-A33 Moloch, VIC-A58 Valafar):
-Added more visual effects

VIC-X14 Nybbas:
-Added Phase Field and Delicate Machinery hullmods
-DP reduced from 14 to 13

VIC-F04 Sonneilon:
-Now they can’t interrupt their burst

All ships:
-Now engine glow changes color if Safety Overrides are installed

Weapons:
Vodyanoy Plasma Minigun:
-New firing sound

Nawia:
-Fixed the bug that caused more flux cost per shot
-Visual effects improved

Hullmods:
“Shturm” Overhaul:
-Tier reduced from 3 to 1 (can buy it with lower rep)
-Cost reduced from 25000 credits to 5000 credits

VIC Brand Shield Emitter:
-Fixed speed penalty also been applied to 0 flux boost

PD Arc Emitter:
-Now unlocked from game start

Misc:
Viral bombardment:
-Stability penalty from Extreme Viral Contamination (EVC) is now permanent
-Ground defense penalty multiplier reduced from x0.3 to x0.25
-Accessibility penalty increased from -25% to -45%
-Now has a fleet size penalty multiplier of x0.5
-Now reduces production quality by 45%
-Grow penalty increased from 10 to (2^(colony size))*25
-Now colonies with EVC can decrease in size if they hit 0% total growth while having negative growth rate
-If colony is size 2, it gets decivilizied the next time it decreases in size
-3 New industries to counteract effects of EVC

-New market themes, all thanks to psiklaw
-Heavy industries were removed from Phlegethon and Purgatory
-Some small fixes in dialogues and descriptions (nothing radical)

VIC Brand Shield Emitter
-Now installable on all ships, not only VIC ones
-Now if installed with other VIC-brand hullmods or on non-VIC ships, decreases maximum speed by 25%

VIC Integrated Assault Systems
-Now installable on all ships, not only VIC ones
-Now does not provide weapon range bonus. Instead provides 5/10/20/30% reduction in weapon flux costs.
-Speed bonus changed to 10/10/20/20
-Adds 33% more projectile velocity
-Now if installed with other VIC-brand hullmods or on non-VIC ships, reduces peak performance time by 33%

VIC “Shturm” Overhaul:
-renamed to “Shturm Overhaul”
-Increased OP cost from 5/10/15/25 to 8/16/24/40

Loader Overdrive
-flux cost reduction removed (actually increased weapons’ flux cost due to a bug, so that’s actually a buff!)
-range reduction reduced from 15% to 10%

PD Arc Emitter:
-Damage per arc reduced from 150 to 50
-Flux per arc reduced from 150 to 25
-CD per charge reduced from 10/7/5/4 to 3/1.5/1/0.6
-Max charges increased from 2/3/4/6 to 6/9/12/21
-Range increased from 200/250/300/350 to 250/300/350/550
-Now properly scales with ship’s stats, counts as energy weapon

Weapons:
New weapon – Vodyanoy Plasma Minigun! Rip’n’tear until it is done!
-Large energy fast-firing suppression weapon
-The longer you shoot, the better it is against armour

Capacitons Discharger:
-Range for secondary arcs increased from “range * 0.15 + 200” to “range * 0.25 + 300”,  approximately 50% increase in range
-EMP on secondary arcs increased form 15% to 50%
-EMP increased from 50 to 80

Heavy Laidlaw Accelerator:
-Flux cost reduced from 750 to 650

Psotnik Interference Autocannon:
-EMP on arc increased from 50 to 60

Tugarin Stellar Catapult:
-Range increased from 900 to 950
-Projectile speed increased from 300 to 350

Verlioka:
-Now slow missiles to min of 50% max speed, multiple effects don’t stack
-Damage reduced from 150 to 100
-Flux cost increased from 150 to 250

Nawia:
-Refire delay reduced from 1.74 to 1.5
-On hit pellets damage reduced from 60 to 50
-Flux efficiency reduced from 0.88 to 1.1
-Now pellets more likely to hit target

Gagana:
-Range reduced from 900 to 800

Strigoy:
-Now fires 2 shells at a time
-Damage reduced from 100 to 50
-Flux cost reduced from 40 to 25
-Refire delay reduced from 2.7 to 0.5
-Burst removed
-Projectile speed reduced from 650 to 600

Laidlaw Mass Driver:
-OP cost reduced form 8 to 7

Rarog Atomic Emitter:
-Range increased from 350 to 450

Fighters:
Shabriri:
-Shield reduced from 500 to 250
-Top speed reduced from 450 to 400
-OP cost increased from 3 to 4

Sonneilon:
-Damage increased from 100 to 125
-Shields reduced from 750 to 400

Uvall:
-Shield reduced from 750 to 500
-Armor increased from 50 to 75
-Hull increased from 200 to 350

Asmoday:
-Shield reduced from 1500 to 1000
-Armor increased from 100 to 125
-Hull increased from 500 to 650
-Description tweaked a bit

Ships:
VIC-X14 Nybbas:
-PPT reduced from 300 to 200
-Now system have 2 seconds CD
-DP increased from 12 to 14

VIC-A01 Xaphan:
-Shield effectiveness reduced from 0.7 to 0.8

VIC-C96 Jezebeth:
-Flux dissipation from 500 to 400

VIC-B49 Samael:
-In-build drone wing removed
-Top speed reduced from 60 to 50
-Flux dissipation reduced from 500 to 400
-Flux capacity increased from 5500 to 6000
-DP increased from 9 to 12
-OP reduced from 105 to 100

VIC-A33 Moloch:
-Medium missiles changed to small missiles
-Medium turrets arcs has been reduced
-Shield effectiveness reduced from 0.7 to 0.8
-OP reduced from 110 to 95

VIC-B62 Thamuz:
-Top speed reduced from 30 to 25
-DP cost increased  from 25 to 27
-Slight changes to arcs of some small mounts

VIC-A58 Valafar:
-Shield effectiveness reduced from 0.7 to 0.8

VIC-A71 Apollyon:
-Shield effectiveness reduced from 0.7 to 0.8
-DP cost reduced from 65 to 60
-Now is in the rare_bp category

Ship systems:
Omni-lunge:
-Now has 3 charges
-CD per charge – 10 seconds
-System total CD reduced from 5.25 to 1.6

Adaptive Assault:
-Now gives from 25% to 75% more energy and ballistic weapons damage
-Now have reverse loadout effect, ballistic weapons increase effect for energy and energy weapons increase for ballistic
-Now missiles reduce both effects

Other stuff:
-Fixed Virus Bombardment bug which prevented saving the game
-Graphical adjustments to all ships’ sprites
-More portraits!!
-Even more edgy ship names!!
-Plot around Apotheosis thickens
-Various description fixes (Bernadian and Mithos planets in Ittir system being the main offenders)
-More memes in the meme folder (yes, it is important)
-All memes got ziped to not make VIC 120 MB Vram in eyes of VRAM-Counter
-Apollyon BP removed from “VIC High Grade Hulls Blueprint Package”
-Reduced amount of asteroids in Empyrean and Ittir which should reduce lag in system
-Cleaned some gunk and reduced VRAM requirement