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Greetings Captains!
Since the recent release of Advanced Edition, I have taken quite an interest in modding, and with the all-new Lanius, what better way to begin modding than with a Lanius Ship, more specifically:

The Lanius Type C!


The Corvinella currently replaces the Kruos(Lanius type A. Credit to Russian Rockman for help ) and comes with an Ion Blast II, Dual Laser and Zoltan Shield. OP, right? Well, early on it can be rather easy to get through enemies, but as you reach enemies with level 2 - 3 Shields, things are gonna get difficult without other weapons.

Download v1.1 (Dropbox)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ncdxxnrbd0jhl ... 20v1.1.ftl

Now as this is my first mod there are bound to be issues, and with tools like Superluminal not updated yet, it just makes things that bit more difficult. So if you see any issues could you please do me a favour and tell me about them? <3

Known Issues:
Cloaking image is offset
Pilot vanishes on rare occasions, when more than one person is recruited at once?
Computer Glow images aren't working, Cause unknown

I like the green glow you have given the ship. Very nice. Those do seem like some OP weapons, have you thought about giving the ship 1 shield bar only like the Zoltan B? And to replace the Kruos I think you just need to but the ship blueprint in dlcBlueprints rather than regular blueprints.xml. Hope that helps.

Russian Rockman wrote:I like the green glow you have given the ship. Very nice. Those do seem like some OP weapons, have you thought about giving the ship 1 shield bar only like the Zoltan B? And to replace the Kruos I think you just need to but the ship blueprint in dlcBlueprints rather than regular blueprints.xml. Hope that helps.

Thanks alot it sure did help! I've updated the link for the ship, should be better now.

I was just making a green-glowing Lanius ship that has a zoltan shield...
It's much smaller though and with a different story.

No offense but the only advanced edition feature this ship has is the lanius crew members....

i recomend to make it fit ftl advanced edition more giving the ship a drone system and replacing this zoltan super shield with a shield drone, and replacing the current weapons with the laser charger (L)

(ill forgive the non-vanilla room sizes)

DragonMaster2962 wrote:No offense but the only advanced edition feature this ship has is the lanius crew members....

i recomend to make it fit ftl advanced edition more giving the ship a drone system and replacing this zoltan super shield with a shield drone, and replacing the current weapons with the laser charger (L)

(ill forgive the non-vanilla room sizes)

Well, it does have a clonebay.

But I agree, the ship is a bit too basic. Instead of drone systems though, it could use just only one possibly-shield-piercing anti-hull laser or a charger weapon, and a mind-control system, forcing the player to control the pilot to ensure a good hit or something.

It does look good.

New Guy wrote:

DragonMaster2962 wrote:No offense but the only advanced edition feature this ship has is the lanius crew members....

i recomend to make it fit ftl advanced edition more giving the ship a drone system and replacing this zoltan super shield with a shield drone, and replacing the current weapons with the laser charger (L)

(ill forgive the non-vanilla room sizes)

Well, it does have a clonebay.

But I agree, the ship is a bit too basic. Instead of drone systems though, it could use just only one possibly-shield-piercing anti-hull laser or a charger weapon, and a mind-control system, forcing the player to control the pilot to ensure a good hit or something.

It does look good.

While I agree with all of these statements by both of you, There's nothing much else I can do until Superluminal is updated, as the current version doesn't use the dlcblueprints.xml. That, and I'm awful when it comes to modding aha.

Change the weapons. It makes the ship really OP.
Other than that, pretty good. The green looks good on a Lanius ship.
I really don't like the 1x1 and 3x2 rooms though, however, thats just my opinion. Most people wouldn't complain about it.

New Guy wrote:

DragonMaster2962 wrote:No offense but the only advanced edition feature this ship has is the lanius crew members....

i recomend to make it fit ftl advanced edition more giving the ship a drone system and replacing this zoltan super shield with a shield drone, and replacing the current weapons with the laser charger (L)

(ill forgive the non-vanilla room sizes)

Well, it does have a clonebay.

But I agree, the ship is a bit too basic. Instead of drone systems though, it could use just only one possibly-shield-piercing anti-hull laser or a charger weapon, and a mind-control system, forcing the player to control the pilot to ensure a good hit or something.

It does look good.

I like the ship. I think it's a cool concept and I like the green glow. Here's a thought though...

You could make another ship that replaces the Type B of the Lanius. Make it a really dark gray. And give it as it's starting loadout a Scrap Recovery Arm and 2 Flak Is (or just 1 Flak II).

I think that giving it shield overcharge drone instead of Zoltan shield is good idea. Not only it makes it less OP, but fixes problems that it have with captain edition (zoltan shield = you command zoltan ship = you have zoltan-specific blue events).

/Estel