Update?

I am in love with those Paint infographs

@Lucas Yo I'm sorry but uh is it safe to use the mod in this ya know version?

Do the droids have population requirements and limits?

Honestly..... I enjoy this mod despite it being outdated. I also enjoy the drawing of these droids just as much as researching them XP
Your Drawings also reminds me when I first saw Star Wars when I was a little kid and unknowingly it has led down the path for having a passion for the Si-Fi Genre, if you do update this mod..... please leave these drawings in, I love them to death :3
Stay Safe @Lucas Qapla'

plz update

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Please update to 2.3

are these the droids we are looking for?

plz update

This mod looks amazing and love the drawings but it doesn´t for 2.2 so plz update masta

guessing this doesnt work with 2.2?

Update please :)?

@Mordachai ah ok I'll look into that stuff

Success! You needed to add a .gfx file to swdroids\interface\ folder - e.g. 00_droid_strikecraft.gfx - you can look at the standard ones to see how trivial this is. But it links up the named icon to the actual dds file. And with that, it appears in the ship editor.

Update: I cannot get the ship compoent to appear (in my current save game anyway) - no matter what I do. :( Fixing the name didn't help, using various DDS file formats didn't help, renaming it to use a more standard name ...strike_craft_droid... didn't help. ???

Note: you can define them at the start of your 00_droids_tech.txt file - @tier2cost4 = 3000

And the lack of cost of some techs is due to referring to variables that don't exist - "@tier2cost4" isn't defined by Stellaris base files - they only go up to @tier?cost3 - e.g. tier 1-3 cost 1-3, but without a definition, presumably the variable is just zero'd out? Seems to be.

AFAICT - the issue with the strike craft not having an icon is because the dds files need to be named the full name except for the gfx_ part - so "ship_part_droid_strike.dds"

@Lucas 2/2 -

I do run other mods - including "Extra Ship Components 2.0" and "!Core Game Mechanics: Buildings" - both of which add techs to the mix.

But in all of the mods I've run on stellaris - and in whatever combos - I'd never seen free techs before :)

Maybe I'll uncompress your mod and take a look. I'm only a dabbler in Stellaris modding, so not sure I can be of much help. But it was very ood!

@Lucas - I definitely did not use any commands to research them. I've had your mod loaded for several games, but usually I ignore the robot side of the game - this is the first time I finally researched far enough into that tree that your "droids!" tech came up. After researching that - I got several options for techs - cost was labeled literally as "free". Researching each of those was instantaneous (though the new list of techs is randomized, so they'd appear, then disappear, as I worked my way throught the tree).

Not all of your techs were free - Droids! wasn't - and about 1/2 of the remaining droid related techs had a cost associated with them (in my game they were around 4K each - relatively cheap for the benefits provided).

@Mordachai no techs are free, there is a bug where they appear free if you use commands to research them. I could never figure out how to get the images to work for the ship builder tbh. The models are the same as base game.

To clarify: the missing icons were in the ship designer - not in the research tree. Those all seem fine.

Related: if I choose a ship with droid bombers - are there 3D models for them?

Also: The auto-designer failed to choose a regular figher or droid. Manually I can do so - but again, there's no icon in the ship designer, so I worried that it wouldn't work properly in combat?

Lucas - are there normally icons for the droid bombers/fighters/interceptors?

Also - really would prefer that all of the techs have a cost! Feels wrong to get some for free - and the techs are reasonable to shoot for, IMO. Worth their tier.

Thanks!!!

PS: I'd make the one the reduces population consumer goods use by -15% to be a higher tier!! Yikes, that's cheap for one helluva boon :)

Will you ever make the icon's not burn my eyes? I love the concept.

@lucas i found em but it was wayyy later

@everyone 1.3 should be the last update until the game itself actually updates so I wanted to thank eveyone for the support!

So.. ya. Thanks my dudes :)
~ L

@Mr. Rogers I guess I could if you really want me to lol. If I remember right they should be able to but I cant test since I never bought the DLC, make sure you have all the right techs researched

Can machine empires use the? I haven't exactly found building options for it and I'm DE

@Lucas will it be updated to match the current version of the game?

Yeah paint.net is good and with expansions it can rival some paid editors.

The droid armies seem a bit too strong. They cost less and are much stronger than even Android Assault Armies. Maybe the solution is to remove the morale from the droids, and make the tech available to the regular android armies as well? Removing morale keeps it in line with all the other machine and synth armies, while giving the standard droid armies as boost.

Do the preprogramming techs only affect droids?

Now all we need is an auxillary Droid Gunners module....
Oh wait...
"What a Terrible shot"
"Oh well, its my programming..."
Shit I take that back.

grrrrr its Vehicle not Vechicle grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

WATCH THOSE WRIST ROCKETS!

@akeean Thanks! I'll check it out.

@KEBAB REMOVAL UNIT Thanks lol

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not gonna lie, but the shitty MSpaint visuals actually convinced me to download this.

watch those wrist rockets

Paint.net is a free and pretty solid graphics program that can open and save Stellaris graphics files natively, by the way.

Nice job on the paint skills. Gets the job done and helps a LOT understanding what exactly this modes does.

There is dds converters, they are free and works like wonders.

These are not the droids I am looking for.

watch those wrist rockets

I am aware they need to be in dds lol. But you cannot post dds in imgur. It is meant to be for display only.

@{LEO} bcbc2425 Yes I know, this was fixed in an early update but still remains on the mod picture atm

@Guluere Roger Roger

@Chirumiru ShiRoz If you're gonna go through the trouble of posting that you could've atleast put it on the suggestions instead of here :/

1 I think I get what you are saying here

1.5 The icons are there as placeholders, I do plan on adding proper icons

2 I think I might have a fix for this

3 tru

4 cool but 2 things: 1 I dont want to use any copyrighted images so using the ones you posted wont help me. 2 The images need to be .dds so a .png is not so helpful atm

@flame0127 I am bored and see that you did not have any actual icons for the techs and buildings atm so I decided to make them for fun, let me know if you want to use them.

https://i.imgur.com/5brYbx7.png

Does it Add Facist Droids?
I'm lonely

Every droid is fine up until the rolling one. Fuck that little football.