"Standard" Slower Than Light 2.0 is now up as well: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1319557118

I've posted a version for Stellaris 2.0! You can check that out here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1314782731

Updated to 1.8 - All the defines still functioned as normal.

I haven't tested this for 1.8. I'll be doing that this weekend, and updating as needed.

I was thinking...perhaps the "hyperdrive" version should be explained as the laser method...since it would really require a "highway" of autonomous laser station relays to get any worthwhile velocity out of the concept.

"Wormhole" version could be a large station that slingshots ships to their destination, using gravity to slow down for arrival.

Still doesn't explain how the wormhole ships get back...but whatever.

200? No, not quite. Much closer to 20.

So with this mod it will take 200 years for my species first interstellar ship to reach the next solar system?

Exceptional mod, thank you for this! I do feel that, 120 years into the game, as a technocracy with an abundance of research alternatives and still no light speed... maybe it's a little too longwinded? At the rate things are going, no one but the fallen empires will ever get it.
Nevertheless, it really adds a whole new level of playability.

The downside, is that war is (realistically) almost always impractical. If I were to tinker with my own game, I'd maybe lower the sublight time by about a fourth, but I think it gives a good feel of what you were going for as is.

Updated to Stellaris 1.6

I'm not sure if it's possible for ships to mount construction and survey modules.

Have you read "We are legion we are Bob"? It is about a von neumann probe that slowboats from star to star to find resources and replicate in order to defeat its competitor probes. It might make a good slower than light mod. I highly recomend the audiobook. You would have to make it possible for any ship to mount construction and survey modules. You would also want to disable long range sensors.

Would you mind sharing it? That could be a useful thing to include in the mod, "Just in case"

Yeah, I jumped my speed up for a couple days then dropped it back to normal. In case it happens again I made an event I can trigger (yay console!) that jumps my FTL speed up for 3 days.

Nebula speed is one of the things that can be modified via defines. I'll take a look and see what sort of solution I can make. Stuck ships should never happen.

A solution for now is to start the game up without SSTL, run it for a day or less, and the ship will arrive. Save, close, restart with SSTL and you're good to go.

Huh, I had actually made the speed faster, but yeah, I'm in a nebula. Well, drat, I guess that ship is just SOL and I gotta scrap it. Hope that doesn't happenwith a fleet!

Yeah that's classic behavior for the FTL speed too slow bug. Do you have any other mods that change nebulas? It may just be that you found an edge case where slower than light is just a hair too slow. Not knowing exactly how it works, I had to guess what'd be fast enough and Andon started working from my guesses.

Hmm. If the FTL speed is too slow, sometimes ships won't arrive. Are you in a nebula? And have you tried reaching the system from a different star?

Do you ever end up with issues with warp drive not ever actually arriving? I have a system next to my home system that my ships simply cannot reach. They get to the star and just sit there stuck in warp and can't exit.

@Waffenbaum - That sounds like the mod is working just as intended. SSTL makes things incredibly slow, so 948 days seems about the correct length of time for a warp drive at close range.

@ArcAngel-087 OK, but changing it is beyond my scope. Most things are just slower. They CAN be set to follow a fleet of yours sometime, and it's then easy to kite them around, but aside from that it's pretty normal.

How does the AI handle the slower speeds? Specificly during wars.

With SStL enabled on 1.5.1, it currently takes my science vessel 948 days to travel between two systems located next to one another.
I turned off every mod one by one until I found out what was doing it, and it was this one. Then I turned off all other mods and made a new empire to see if I could recreate it, and it did the same thing. So it seems like it isn't compatability problems at least.

Not sure what is causing it, I could have sworn it was working fine before the hotfix.

@Andon: The 1.5.1 update fixed the defines issue!

PDX has confirmed that Defines are currently borked [forum.paradoxplaza.com], but there's a hotfix that should address the issue [forum.paradoxplaza.com]. At the moment, it seems like the hotfix isn't 100% compatible with the old method. As of yet I don't know the new method, so I can't update yet.

Pdox has said they're working the defines issue

Atm doesn't seem to work. I mean the debris decays in 5 years, and gravity lane drives are just as fast as hyperdrives. Could you please check? It's an awesome mod btw. Thanks a lot for your efforts and work!

There may be issues with Defines. I'm investigating, but it may be a bit.

Updated to Stellaris v1.5

This is a fantastic mod and brilliant in it's execution and simplicity.

This is the exact mod that I was thinking of making.

One of them tries to remove the longest hyperlanes. Vanilla game files try to remove the top 20% which I have increased to 35%. This should lead to, overall, shorter hyperlanes. If I understand it correctly, it won't remove a lane if it would cause there to be more than 18 jumps to get from one star to another (Vanilla game is 30). I'm not 100% certain on how that one works. The third variable is simply the maximum number of lanes that can form at any one star. Vanilla only allows three, which I've increased to five.

Could you describe what exactly the HYPERLANE_GEN variables affect in detail.