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Better Crystal Plating for NSC3 [3.*]
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1 May, 2024 @ 10:09am
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Better Crystal Plating for NSC3 [3.*]

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This mod changes how Crystal Plating works. Instead of being a utility slot it now works as an aux slot which apllies Crystal Infusion/Forging to armor, giving the ship extra hull points for each armor component present on the ship. For example, corvette with 3 armor components and crystal infused plating (which gives 75 hull for each armor component) will give 225 additional hull to the ship. The hull increase from crystal plating scales with the size of armor, so, for example on cruisers with medium slots armor it will give 150 hull per armor component. IMPORTANT: It will not show the added hull hp in ship designer, but it will be added once you construct the ship.
Also Crystal Infused/Forged Plating is now researchable even without Crystaline Entities. Crystal Plating is a tier 2 technology available after researching any rare crystal production technology, Crystal Forging is a tier 4 rare technology which can be researched after researching Crystal Plating.
Armor values have been rounded up for easier counting, armor upkeep now is purely in alloys not energy&alloys (in vanilla it actually has more energy upkeep than shields). Added tooltips showing armor upkeep of each armor component. Dragon armor has the same alloy cost as Neutronium armor but has additional small living metal cost (comparable to psi shields zro cost).

Hull increase per S, M and L armor component:
Crystal Infusion: 75, 150, 300
Crystal Forging: 150, 300, 600

#Compatibility
Will not work with new types of armor or ship types from different mods (by not working I mean what crystal plating will not show up on new ship types as an option, and you will not get extra hull points from new armor types)
Compatible with other Better mods

Link to original for vanilla: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3187894821
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Felalot  [author] 15 May @ 6:28am 
Its work in progress
Juan of the West 13 May @ 11:56pm 
Hoping for an update on your Better Mods! Makes for better diversity in my fleets :)
Felalot  [author] 29 Dec, 2024 @ 9:24pm 
That is unusual
some chinlet who cares 29 Dec, 2024 @ 7:14pm 
any, no matter what type. ill test it again, might be AGC's ships that are the issue.
Felalot  [author] 28 Dec, 2024 @ 11:25pm 
Shouldn't be, you cant place it on any ship type or some kind of specific one?
some chinlet who cares 28 Dec, 2024 @ 12:32pm 
i dont seem to be able to place this into the aux slot, only the normal utility. does this have to be somewhere specific in the load order?
Felalot  [author] 5 May, 2024 @ 2:41pm 
Its just a 10% shield hp modifier, I could have made the crystal plating just giving hull hp % modifier, but thats boring. The problem with vanilla crystal plating (in my opnion) is what it had a very odd place to use where you either use it to produce cheap glass cannon ships, or use it to combat bypass weapons, while sabotaging your overall ship surviability to everything else. So here I think I came up with an elegant solution to fix both. If you want cheap ships with semi-decent survivability you can fill ship design with tier one armor components and add crystal plating. If you want more defense against bypass weapons you can just add some armor (or go full armor) and add crystal plating aux on top.
makel1 5 May, 2024 @ 1:54pm 
Just an idea(if ya havent tried that already ofc).... ya might wanna check how the shield booster auxilliary works. maybe you can figure out how to add its funktion to armor instead?
Felalot  [author] 5 May, 2024 @ 1:09pm 
@Dr.Democracy Its due to technicality, I tried everything to try and make it work in design scope, but sadly it was not possible to detect other components applied inside ship designer, so I decided to make it work based on how cloaking works, which checks ship scope for shields components and disables them for example or keeps them if its psi shields and a psi cloak.
Ratzenflink 5 May, 2024 @ 8:40am 
you are wonderfull!