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Better Remnants 3.8

Will this mod be updated to 3.10?

Request:

Can you make a similar mod to slightly buff the Life-Seeded Origin? The problem I have with Life-Seeded is that a lot of the intended sweetness lies in starting on a planet with some Strategic Resources you can mine, but with the change from 16 Building Slots to 12, that's a very different and much less attractive proposition on one's starting/Capital planet, yet Life-Seeded still has the challenge element that one's Pops cannot thrive on non-Gaia worlds.

What I'd like to see is the removal of these regular deposits, and instead Life-Seeded starts your Gaia (maybe smaller than 30) with a special Planet Thingie that gives you 1 Resource Collector Job per 33 Pops rounded up, and each such Job gives a base income of 0.5 Gas, 0.5 Crystals and 0.5 Motes, and subject to the same modifiers as a normal Strategic Resource Miner.

That way, it no longer costs Building Slots to utilize this feature of the Origin, and you can get started right away but accumulate only small quantities.

Of course, drawing the same Tech twice just means you get +33% progress on it twice, so it's not actually a problem. I realized that a few days ago.

I maintain that Phoenix is unneeded and overpowered, though.

I got Anti-Gravity Engineering twice, from removing the first Blocker on my Relic Wordl, and then again later when I removed the 4th or 5th Blocker. Please look into this, to ensure that a different Tech is generated each time, on the player doesn't already have.

Also, my Governor Machine Empire (RS) Leader started with the Bulldozer I Trait, making Blocker removal faster and cheaper. That's very nice when you start on a Relic World, and in fact I think it'd be good if this mod removed the Phoenix Trait and instead guaranteed that the Governor had the Bulldozer Trait. That's a much more immediately useful boost, while it also won't have much of an effect in the long term, since as of 3.8/3.9 Governor Traits only affect a single planet at a time.

I like the idea of this mod, but I really don't think the Phoenix Trait is warranted. The Origin feels powerful enough without it.

Some interesting lore with fallen empires and curators would be interesting.

I think it would be awesome if the fallen empires recognised you as "having fallen". I think the forgotten history mod did something like that. Nifty mod nonetheless!

Good to know. I've always hated having to include the whole file. I'll update this.

Link to the relevant part in the modding wiki

https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Modding#Events_folder
Events are Fios for overwrites

They do, they are FIOS rather that LIOS though, even back then. You simply need to include the namespace and have the file use a 'higher' start like exclamation marks or tilde's something like !!!_br_utopia_events and just the ones you need to edit.