[MOD] Stations Job 1.21

[stargateprovider]

Is that station (the type B variant) being used? It would fit right in with a part of my mod. Or maybe I could use the Crystal Station from CE, but I feel like that may be pushing the envelope.

Yes, I'm using it, but you can use it too, if you want to and if it's not too big (as an enemy it sure would be).

[stargateprovider]

Important update:
I discovered how to add systems via events, so you don't have to buy them from a store anymore.
I'll use that in my mod so there will be two game modes: normal (with the store) hard (without store).
In hard mode you will need to build systems yourself by combining augments, similarly to CE, where you can build stuff on empty beacons.

[NarnKar]

How do you add systems via events?

[stargateprovider]

Use this code:

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<event>
   <text>This is how you get systems in events</text>
   <system name="shields"/>
</event>

(of course you can change the system and text)

[Sleeper Service]

Interesting. Have you by any chance tested if adding systems this way allows you to exceed the general system caps?

[English Narwhal]

Interesting. Have you by any chance tested if adding systems this way allows you to exceed the general system caps?

The systems cap is a hard limit, sadly. At a certain point, it simply won't let you add more systems or power to systems. However, I'm pretty sure there is a soft cap that we've been reaching and the hard cap is actually higher.

[NarnKar]

Past the soft caps, the systems start to bug out and cause seriously weird stuff; that's most likely why we haven't found the hard caps yet.

[stargateprovider]

You can actually get more systems than you usually could, so it's a nice code. It even gives you a warning when you are about to exceed the system cap, but lets you do it anyway.

[RAD-82]

I've performed some testing on this newly found information.

You can actually get more systems than you usually could, so it's a nice code. It even gives you a warning when you are about to exceed the system cap, but lets you do it anyway.

Actually, the game only lets you exceed the cap if it is the only option. If there are other options to choose from, it will grey out the option to add the system. Exceeding the cap has to be forced onto the player.

Having multiple system options is not advised. Each one will cause warning text to appear, which quickly uses up space in the text box and forcing options out of it. A solution to this would be to add the systems further down the event chain so they won't clutter the same event.

Forcing the game to add a drone system when you already have it installed will delete the drones from the existing slots. I assume the same would happen to weapons.
edit: After some more testing, I've found that adding a system you already have places a duplicate system in that room. This is bad, because you can no longer repair the system without a repair bomb, since the duplicate is in the way.

[stargateprovider]

Version 0.a available for testing! Try it and post feedback.