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Improved Stash

Improve the drop behavior of hidden stashes in the galaxy.

In the vanilla game, the money reward and equipment drops from stash are decent at early game, but gradually diminish in value towards mid-to-late game. This mod attempts to address some of these shortcomings by introducing a chance of exotic/legendary equipment to the drop so that the stashes are still viable for a good surprise later in the game.

[Major changes: Credit reward]
As of v0.4, reward amount now scales non-linearly throughout progression.
- Starting sector region drops around 100k credits (reduced from ~130k)
- Max at core is now at ~1.5M credits (increased from 1.3M)
- Rewards are balanced around Trinium region with a skewed average of 750k (increased from 550k)

With this change, the rewards pre-mid Naonite are lower than earlier versions of the mod. This is intended to not trivialise the early-game grind. Beyond mid-Naonite, it gets more rewarding as the enemies in this region also start becoming deadlier with shields and anti-shield weaponry. The rewards at Trinium+ are noticeably higher, coinciding with the point where most players start scaling up their fleet.

[Feature: Resource reward]
Initially introduced in v0.3, this has been improved to follow its own non-linear progression.
- Starting sector drops around 9k resource units (down from 25k)
- Max at core is *only* 25k (down from 260k!)
- Material type is still based on probabilities available for the given sector (so don't expect Avorion to drop in Trinium region)

Based on play-testing, the scaling in v0.3 was too large and totally breaks progression. You can end up with more resources than you need even before the tech knowledge is unlocked! The new numbers are balanced around the value of the material drop to closely match the credit drop of the stash.

[Feature: Bonus drop]
Credit and resource rewards now have a chance to drop a higher amount!
- Default is 1.0x
- 25% chance for 1.5x
- 10% chance for 3x
- 0.5% chance for 10x

Bonus applies to both credits and resources equally from the same stash.

[Feature: Subsystem and Turret drop rarity]
The original feature of this mod, stashes have additional chances to drop higher rarity items.
- 5.0% chance of exotics
- 0.5% chance of legendaries
- Drop chance for Rare, and Exceptional remain unchanged

[Feature: Turret tech level]
New in v0.4, turret drops now always drop at a higher tech level than the current sector. As this is calculated relative to the location of the sector:
- Baseline is 1-2 tech levels higher
- 10% chance of 5 tech levels higher
- 0.5% chance of 7 tech levels higher

Each material zone is approximately 10 tech levels. As such, a 7-level bump can be a significant boost to DPS! The average is kept within 1-2 to make turrets from stashes more useful. This does not guarantee good drops -- the turrent generation in the game is extremely random. Tech level primarily increases the DPS range possible, but we are still slaves to RNG.

CHANGELOG
[Update v0.4.0]
Credit and resource drops now use a custom reward scale.
Turrets now drop with higher tech-levels.

[Update v0.3.0]
Stashes now drop lore-compatible material resources!
Stashes also now have a rare chance of increasing money + resource drops.

[Update v0.2.5]
Bumped the compatibility string for v2.5 of Avorion. No functional changes.

[Update v0.2.4+]
Bumped the compatibility string for v2.4 of Avorion. No functional changes.

[Update v0.2.2+]
The Rift DLC was released with client v2.2 and introduced some minor API changes. The latest mod version will fail on clients v2.1 (or older). You do *NOT* require the DLC for the mod to work.

[Update v0.2]
v2 compatibility is now added. Due to changes in the game API, the latest version no longer works with 1.x clients. Additionally, "Uncommon" drops are no longer in the drop pool for stashes. This was changed in vanilla 2.0, and the mod reflects this behavior tool.

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[Open source]
Since I am not actively playing the game at the moment, I made the mod source public. I will still support it if there are requests to update, but feel free to fork and/or contribute to it directly :)

https://github.com/crazeejeeves/avorion-mod-improvedstash