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Relytor's True Raiding 3.2.*

Making Barbaric Despoilers and Nihilistic Acquisition worth it!
Faster Plunder wars, better raiding mechanics and a new retaliation war goal.


When an empire's people have been abducted by a fleet in Raiding bombardment stance, the empire get's a 25 year Casus Belli to free their people.


Claims cannot be pressed and space is not taken, but on success you gain influence, the raider empire is humiliated for 5 years, and all pops previously abducted are freed. On Status Quo, only the pops abducted to the planets you now occupy will be freed.

Once freed, a pop is sent back to the planet they came from. If that planet is not available, they will be moved to your capital. This is the defensive War Goal for when a Barbaric Despoiler uses the Plunder War Goal against you, as well as the war goal for the new CB.

If the AI has the CB to enable this and they choose to go to war with the raider empire, they will usually use this war goal.


Claims cannot be pressed and space is not taken. This is simply for raiding and abducting pops.

The AI is as likely to use this as it is the Conquest war goal, but more likely than the Humiliate war goal. Most other war goals have a higher weight.


When an empire with either the civic Barbaric Despoiler or the perk Nihilistic Acquisition disables a starbase, they will steal from the system owner a month's worth of production from all orbital stations. This happens no matter the war goal or bombardment stance of the attacking fleet.


In addition to stealing pops, bombarding a planet with the Raiding orbital bombardment stance will steal resources. Every day the planet is being bombarded, there is a chance that a week's worth of the planet's production will be stolen. At 1% devastation, it less than a 1% chance. At 50% devastation, it is a 14% chance (once per week). Up to at 99% devastation, a 28% chance. Note that devastation reduces planet production, so while it happens more frequently, you get less loot.

Because no claims are being pressed, Status Quo is usually pretty easy to obtain, allowing fast wars that feel much more like a quick raid into enemy territory and getting out rather than an all out head-to-head war.

The AI is very likely to choose this bombardment stance if it is valid for them.

No vanilla files overwritten, just overwrites the definitions of:

• Nihilistic Acquisition (ap_nihilistic_acquisition) ascension perk
  
• Plunder (wg_plunder) war goal
  
• Raiding bombardment stance

Planetary Overhaul, a Planetary Diversity sub-mod
Master of Stellaris - Planets, the first in a collection of mods to bring Master of Orion 2 gameplay concepts to Stellaris. Overhauls habitability, base resource production, and terraforming.

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