I love this mod keep up the good work

@Naptime thanks for letting me know! I've gotten really busy but I will try to fix that soon!

Is there any chance you will update this mod to work for 3.10? It currently crashes my game :(

should add the old retro game series Speedball as a sport lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_2:_Brutal_Deluxe

Thanks for the feedback @SchwatNow I will definitely take that into consideration!

This is a fun mod for certain but I feel like the time limit is too restrictive for the races for when this comes up in the early game. On larger galaxy sizes it can take double the time offered in order to just reach the location so I miss out on most of the races simply because I can't get my fleet to the location fast enough. Maybe make the timer the same duration as debris fields?

Thanks for updating!!

I don't know how this would really work, but, all that pops into my head is rainbow road from mario kart on top of all the other suggestions.

This would synergize well with an origin based on the alien precursor from Hot Wheels Acceleracers/World Race. They literally built race tracks across the universe and even in space just to have more fun

Really cool idea and one that would fit in the vanilla game very well.

This needs a set of Galactic Community laws establishing a galaxywide podracing league, complete with hosting site selection and a silly amount of diplomatic power for the most recent winner.

But long term goals, obviously.

You should do the racing from Redline. Where the races can be in neighboring empires and you have to use cloaked ships to get to the race, if you win it reveals intel on the empire. That could be great mid/late game race event chain

NOW THIS IS PODRACING

If you dare head to TV Tropes, I recommend the pages Fictional Sport and Calvinball.

Hackathons could also help with developing new technologies

Hackathons for all races, even machines

I have to suggest Tossbal from the Outer Worlds, Jump Ball from Starship Troopers, Triad and Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, Blernsball from Futurama, Sportsboard from Not For Broadcast, and Biotiball, Clawball, and Kowla from Mass Effect. Biotiball could become Psiball for psionic empires and Clawball could only be for avians. Tossball could also some from of bread and circuses for megacrops.

If you don't mind a suggestion, Grifball Would be a excellent addition.

Excellent, thank you.

@Straiada currently there are no events that can kill a ruler. The fatal consequences are for any leader you choose to send to participate in the events, which are only Admirals (for Podracing) and Generals and Scientists (for Lightcycle racing).

Could be killed*-

That's alright, it's your mod and in a way it is intergalactic (Stellaris generates an infinity of galaxies).

I have a question now, in the description "fatal consequences" are mentioned. It is certainly enticing and I'd love to give your mod a good try, but I'm afraid my democratically elected dictator is killed (I love roleplaying and she is supposed to be immortal). Is that a risk? If so, could you please make it an option so we can disable our rulers from participating in the schemes?

UPDATE:
First big update! Added a new sport for Machines: Lightcycle Racing from Tron, with multiple ways to resolve the questline.

Also updated the timing on the Podracing events to be a little more lenient.

(and for everyone asking why it's called Intergalactic instead of Interstellar... it's because I like how it sounds and didn't think too hard about that)

An interesting idea, certainly.

Why is it Intergalactic rather than Interstellar?

If your able to tie them to civics aswell to species(Cause modded portraits but also more available variety) it'd be cool to have like "Grand strategy Holo-chess" for people with Aristocratic Elite?

many suggestions are discussing advanced sporting events but im hoping for something simple like dueling championship that can give generals a trait if they win possibly different traits for 2nd and 3rd for example you can add 2nd place pod racing champion trait that gives 15% evasion and 5% sub-light speed maybe a finished last trait that provides a negative trait as well.

@Elowiny
Perhaps it's an organizational/advertising title, like MLB's World Series, or the Miss Universe Pageant?

I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!

Loving all the creativity!

@|-Z-|Reformed
Why thank you! I'm going to be even more of an obnoxious pedant then, and bring up the fact that it should be called "Interstellar Sports" or "Galactic Sports", as "Intergalactic" implies it would take place between multiple galaxies, while Stellaris only takes place in one galaxy. Although I will admit that "Intergalactic Sports" does have a nice ring to it nonetheless...

This mod rocks, thanks!

So much creativity in the comments, so many great ideas. I'm currently working on the next update which will add Lightcycle Racing for Machines which I hope will be finished in a few days. Also in the early stages of planning Blitzball for Aquatics as well as a few others.

Also @Elowiny I appreciate the pedantry and will be taking this under advisement :)

Remembering a concept from an Issac Arthur video. Perhaps a competitive simulated leak patching game for void dwellers that develops out of the training process for doing so. Not sure what the debuff would be, but slight hull regen could be the buff

Various water sports for aquatics and humanoids would be interesting.

@fourtytwoblunts
@Gentleman-Velociraptors
Having the capability to organise yourself and play with a ball would generally be an indicator of sapience, though. Animals obviously play and spar, but actually turning this playfulness into organised sports as well as classifying it into categories and competitions most likely requires sapience and the ability to think about why and how you play (which animals do not do, they just play because they like it).

Now THIS is podracing!

We will watch your athletic career with great interest.

if your adding other sports, Blitz Ball (Final fantasy er ..7*?) you know the giant ball of water soccer doge ball esc game. that'd be cool.

Welcome to your Space Olympics
All the oxygen has run out
And someone who will not be named
Accidentally hit self-destruct

As you file to your escape pods
I'll distract the alien hordes
And as I stare death in the face I know my sins will take me to hell.

I would like to see something like a Shooting Competition for Humanoid, Mamalian, Reptiles, Humanoid, and basically bipedan spices, for Generals, that increase their Damage while reduce too their Collateral Damage, this to adds a lore of Snipers in the battlefield, damn, ideas there are infinite, something that would be great is that in a world have developed a wrestilng like sport, their defense army morale is higher than regular, if there is a speed related sport, like the Podracing, they have a boost to defense army damage and retreat chances, if is sport shooting, to the damage and morale, aside from the happines, wich is great, maybe even armies on a planet with sport shooting, a small extra XP when created, (like 25 or 50, just a small extra), to reflect the culture that as develped that world

Damn, Stellaris give such opportunities to play and create a lore

Suggestion, Grifball and maybe some regular sports but based on the planet type/species (swimming/boating events for ocean/aquatic worlds, that kinda thing)

imagine a galaxy wide fifa with the megacorp criminal fix the games and pays the arbitro xD awsome mod bro i want to see what you make of it

@Elowiny Animals play and spar, if they had the mental capabilities to organize themselves and play with a ball (Which pets and other animals generally like to play with) they would have tons of sports

@Elowiny Ahhh, but here's the thing, friend. Even animals are known to have fun. Maybe its not sports per-say, but it still is fun.

Now THIS is podracing!

@ |-Z-|Reformed,

Would it be possible to somehow introduce the Olympics on an intergalactic scale?

pedantry time
the description should state "What would sapient life be like without sports?", because sentience just means the ability to feel things (all animals) while sapience is specifically the ability to think and reason.

Of ALL the mods we wanted the one we very nearly needed, we never thought of

Will you be adding other sports based on Ethics ie dueling/boxing arenas for Militarist empires and a form of galactic jousting for Authoritarian empires?