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Outsourcing Booster

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Description
Outsourcing Booster
v1.8.1 Sept 10th, 2021

Picard Patch Compatible

Features
  • Unlock more research slowly
  • Unlock maximum research with a new Game Rule
  • New Game Rule: Remove Outsourcing Limits
  • Displays current and max orders in the research pane
  • Notifications when orders are boosted
  • Notifications when you can purchase more outsourcing. Click to open Research Screen
  • Pre Davinci saves compatible
  • Mod Config options for notifications

Outsourcing Booster unlocks and removes maximum outsourcing limitations for your colony.
Save game and new game compatible.
Play with or without new game rule.
It does this in one of two ways.

Without Game Rule Active
The default game offers you up to 5 outsourcing orders at any given time.
Outsourcing Booster will give you one additional outsourcing order every 10 sols starting at Sol 10.
Example: Colony Sol at 50 will give you the ability to order up to 10 orders (5 game defaults plus 5 booster)

With Game Rule Active
Outsourcing Booster will give you 1000 additional outsourcing orders which equals a maximum 200,000 points.
No increases past this amount.

Normal Game Default Play
Normally the game limits a player to only 5 orders of outsourcing.
This results in a maximum outsourcing points of 1000.

Save Games Catch-up
Adding this mod and playing save games with it for the first time will cause Outsourcing Booster to "catch you up."
If your save game is at Sol 64 for example, you will get an additional 6 orders added.
Outsourcing Booster will continue normally from there.

Funding
You still need to pay for outsourcing and have the appropriate funds to get outsourcing.

Pre-Davinci Patch Game Saves
Outsourcing Booster works with save games pre Davinci where outsourcing mechanisms were different.

Other Mod Compatibility
This mod changes outsourcing order ability only.
Any mod that changes outsourcing prices or points is unaffected and should still work.
Any mod that alters Outsource Ordering via constant modification will be have those modifications removed upon save game load or new game start.

This mod uses the new Mod Config Reborn giving you the ability to change some parameters.
Mod Config Reborn is here > Mod Config Reborn

Report bugs in the bug report discussion
Feature requests in the feature requests discussion.

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18 Comments
SkiRich  [author] 7 Sep, 2021 @ 10:26am 
Faith 7 Sep, 2021 @ 10:25am 
Hope this will be updated to the new expansion, one of my favorite mods
SkiRich  [author] 18 Aug, 2020 @ 9:09am 
October 2019 was the last update. That was a hotfix to the previous update a month earlier.
VoshkaVonBadMeow 18 Aug, 2020 @ 12:25am 
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1745481507

But looking at it now, it hasn't been updated since may 2019, so it might also simply not be compatible?

I recently bought the game so I dont know when it was last updated :)
SkiRich  [author] 17 Aug, 2020 @ 3:56pm 
Ah well in that case, its probably incompatible with something I'm doing. What Mod?
VoshkaVonBadMeow 17 Aug, 2020 @ 1:13pm 
It automates Outsourcing, not research.
It will grab outsourcing if you have extra cash, nothing else, you are still free to choose what to research, or not research.
SkiRich  [author] 17 Aug, 2020 @ 10:18am 
Why would you use a mod to automate selecting research? By default the game does this automatically in the background, selecting the lowest cost research that hasnt been done yet if you have outsourcing points to spend. That mod is unnecessary.
VoshkaVonBadMeow 17 Aug, 2020 @ 10:00am 
I had the mod that makes outsourcing automated, I assume then it was incompatibility :)
SkiRich  [author] 17 Aug, 2020 @ 9:13am 
Well its probably not Outsourcing Booster. Although if you have another outsourcing mod loaded, there may be some incompatibility issues causing this.
VoshkaVonBadMeow 17 Aug, 2020 @ 6:31am 
I have a strange issue, and I'm not sure if its this mod or the auto outsourcing mod.

Outsourcing seems to be free?

It's in a savegame though, so I dunno if it's just a little bug there..