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Dazz's Hyperdrive

I don't like how hyperdrives work in Cosmoteer. Hyperium being a mineral makes me feel that it is a finite, unrenewable resource and makes me hasitate to expend it, but it is in fact too available to be worried about; also, it is just an annoyance that you must refill your ships with hyperium time by time, it is a repetitive, uninteresting task that I just want to skip.

This mod changes how hyperdrives work. Rather than needing hyperium as a fuel, it is now constructed with hyperium and it consumes no hyperium to do the hyper-jumps. Your crews refill it with batteries and it slowly converts the batteries into a new resource called Hyperium Energy, which is required for hyper-jumps. Hyperium Energy cannot exist outside of a hyperdrive. Assuming batteries supply is adequate, it takes around three minutes for an empty Small Hyperdrive to fully recharge itself.

This way, hyperdrives work more like what I am used to hear from science fictions: it requires energy and it needs time to recharge itself, instead of expending some unrenewable resource in the process.

Hyperdrives needing hyperium to be build makes them more expensive. This may pressure starting credits.

Medium Hyperdrive
Medium Hyperdrive (TechTree)
Corvettes and Components (2x1 Hyperdrive)
Fighters and Components (1x1 Hyperdrive, and 1x1 reactor + hyperdrive)

Hyperdrives from mods not listed above are unlikely to work even in a manner they used to.

Q: I am the author of ______ mod and despite being listed as compatible, my local copy of the mod isn't compatible with your mod.
A: Due to the current status of Cosmoteer modding, this issue cannot be resolved in my end. You either subscribe your own workshop item and enable it for your plays instead, or apply the patches to your local copy of the mod. The latter is discouraged for it crashes the game for users not using Dazz's Hyperdrive mod.