Stellaris

Stellaris

Sensor Expansion
MobyDack 20 Jan, 2023 @ 6:03pm
Quick question for an adaption of this mod / other version
Great Mod! Have been playin with it for a year now and it returned my lust for more sci fi, since I really hated the way sensors worked in vanilla being able to always see everything. Leavin some surprises in games with ambushes and the like is so refreshing!

Since my furious playing started for stellaris I've also started reading on some sci fi books again like David Webers books or "Lost Fleet" and I wanted to ask you something.

The reason I downloaded your mod was because I always thought sensor in stellaris is unrealistic and should be removed, since u cant actually see something in realtime thats millions of stars away from you. Its impossible since only the light of those objects is reaching you later, years after the object moved from there.

Since I really wanted to play some sessions like in books "Lost Fleet" or David Webers books where theres close combat hyperlane ambushes, being surrounded suddenly by enemies which were hidden earlier in other systems, not seeing them etc. I was wondering now, would it somehow be possible to make a mod where the player doesnt have sensor range but the AI does?

So it could be a more challenging gameplay for the player to maneuveur battles and to leave picket ships in systems, to guard and spot enemy fleets moving around, plan long campaigns etc. In theory u could also implement starbase building which do sensor range and observatorium gigastructure would be viable but would be toned down.

I did some mods already in the past but havent gotten around in the past years, but I gotta say for stellaris I would probably do it and relearn it. Now I was wondering, from your perspective, doing your mod, do you think it would be feasible? Dont wanna start a project when someone could advise me to abandon from the start:D And I could probably start it, but would still need some time since I still have to work. Hell, if its just a quick adaption of your mod and you would do it I would even pay you xD Would be worth it to have stellaris games like the scifi books I read

Thank you already for taking your time to read through this and I hope u will reply :P
Last edited by MobyDack; 20 Jan, 2023 @ 6:10pm