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Can you update for 2.3?

Hi,

there is a small bug related to hiring mercenaries. When you hire a mercenary you gain an empire buff (-100 energy per month i.e) right? Well there is no correct text for it. I.e I have something like: enclave_beam_xyz_zyx rather than "Enclave Beam Contract" or something like that.

Btw: some suggestion: please add admirals to the fleet just like marauders have (and they cannot be removed).

some suggestion2: 3-4 k fleet power for 100 energy per month is little weak. Marauders for 9000 gives you 10k fleet. Maybe some buff?

Will it works with existing savegames?

How come no more compatibility with speed dial? :(

I miss the old mercenary mod which was made long ago before mauraders. This concept is fine and more in line with the game today.

Are both mercenary mods compatible with each other?
Can both activities at the same time?

Not at all! Thanks for the feedback.

Fair enough. Sorry if i came across as a dick.

@Random Not really, the marauders offer you significantly fewer options and don't scale with time so they're only useful in a narrow window of time.

@kerrigan Criticism is welcome, no offence taken. But I don't see how you could objectively say the other Mercenary Enclave mod did it better. First, it has an entirely different concept-- you don't control the fleets, you can't hire fleets permanently, you can't get an admiral from them, and there's no variation in the fleet weapon types. Second, it doesn't redo the gui/flag to make mercenaries stand out from the other enclaves, which is something I focused on. Third, somewhat irrelevant point, tbqh I had no idea there was another Mercenary Enclave mod until I was halfway into making this one, so by that point I was going to make this anyway and points 1 and 2 made me confident it would stand out. If you don't feel that way, that's fine, but I don't think you could flatly say my logic doesn't also make sense.

There's already a mod called Mercenary Enclave thats does this better. What makes your mod stand out from the rest? No offence.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=821458136&searchtext=Mercenary

Isn't this mod redundant because of marauders?

@thanatos996 Thank you. At least my level 5 admiral will not die in vain. XD

@FlamingFeather just uploaded a fix that prevents that from happening. Also fixed some other outstanding bugs I caught. Thanks for the report!!

WARRNING! Remove your Admiral from the fleet BEFORE ending contract. Otherwise your admiral will DIE.

@tmonahan23 I have no one to test multiplayer with, and unlike with marauders the AI cannot use enclaves, but the intended functionality is to have multiple different empires be able to hire fleets from the same merc enclave.

And who knows @Argenblack! Maybe when I revisit this mod post Le Guin I'll change the names. Honestly though I'm partial to the faux refinement of the Beam Institute. They're a great contrast to the other two xD

Can multiple different empires hire fleets from the same merc enclave. I know with maruaders.. if empire A bought a fleet then my empire cant. Wonder if your merc enclave does this ?

This mod sounds hilarious. That said, may I suggest renaming the beam mercs to "Lazer Blazers?" :p

Great to see you release this 😁