I just want to state from the off that as I currently type this (release day) I don't seriously plan to to implement much more stuff unless there is specific community interest for it. Bug fixes, cleaning up typos and other housekeeping I'm fine to do but as for the rest I basically consider this mod 100%. The things you'll find below I'd like to do, but only really if there is someone out there actually leaving comments about it (and especially if I'm being helped/provided code/art).

So here are some fun things I realised the mod could maybe have one day. I'll rank the list based on how viable/exciting I find each idea.

Replacing indistinct/weak features.
I'd say about 15% of the mod currently is a bit weak. There are two or three icons which in my opinion are really awful (like the mammalian decay and one of the features with a bunch of flies on it). Art quality doesn't matter too much in game because the tiles art appears kind of small, but still. The other situation is where tiles are too similar to eachother. A good example is the arctic features that grant mining districts. I was completely out of inspiration at the time and basically just created a bunch of red-dish mountains. And then there are the names/descriptions of a bunch of them. There are probably too many "ancient" or "rare" or "mysterious" places. I don't know, just more synonym variety or something. So this is why I said on the main mod page, I'm open to feedback on changing anything. If people provide a new idea for a feature, especially if it can overwrite one of the weaker base ones, I'd love to use it.

Deposits on home-worlds.
For version 1.0 of the mod I've made sure not to tamper with deposits on any home-worlds or starting colonies because I wasn't sure if that would break anything. I could easily change this if it's what people want.

Negative modifiers for "dangerous" blockers.
In version 1.0 of the mod I have some blockers set to be much rarer than the others and simply providing -4 districts. Later, I realised I can name them in red text to easily identify them. What I didn't anticipate when play testing is just how striking that red text comes across in game and gives a very real sense of "this deposit is BAD". What essentially happened by accident is I've kind of made a "dangerous blocker" mini feature. And it seems like such a fun idea! But -4 districts doesn't feel good enough for this. So what would? Perhaps a negative planet modifier? Negative EMPIRE modifier? Some random event every now and then? Not sure. Need inspiration for themes and inspiration for game-play that isn't too annoying.


Adding Hive Worlds (33 deposits).
I sort of like this idea as Hive worlds probably wouldn't be that hard to invent cool "ideas" for. The "downside" is I'm not really familiar with how hive worlds work in the first place as I don't play the game too much. I'd have to run a specific hive world planetary feature event each time one is created throughout the course of the game but that wouldn't be too hard, I think.

Adding habitats (33 deposits)
Basically the same situation as adding hive worlds - Pancake even had some cool concepts for this on the spreadsheet. But Paradox just reworked how habitats work, I haven't played the new setup and have no idea how this would really work.


Adding deposits for special classifications
This means penal colonies/resort worlds. Basically I'm thinking just 3-5 unique deposits that are only on that type of world. I feel like these could be really cool fantasy concepts (what does a desert jail look like?) but I have no inspiration. And we're talking about 33 distinct ideas just for 3 deposits-per.


Adding Relic Worlds
Relic worlds would be kind of nice just to have the "full set" but they already in Vanilla have a pretty distinct setup with their planetary features.

Adding Jobs
I did consider that a lot of features could add jobs directly. There is a popular concept on the Stellaris suggestions forum (and a workshop mod) that suggests for the strategic resources if you add the jobs directly and allow empires to skip the building, it feels much better for balance/flow. But then again this isn't a very "vanilla" experience so I've left it out.

Further to this, I really like the idea of having "flavorful" jobs. So for example moss-pearl gatherers, or rare-bloater farmers, ice-crystal miners and stuff. I love the idea of looking at an alien planets jobs and seeing a bunch of really unique workers that feel distinct because of that specific world. But again, I don't really know that would affect the game and what kind of issues might pop up. It's also a bit rougher on compatibility, I believe.

Adding "Points of Interest"
The guiding principle behind this mod at launch has been to make equivelants to Vanilla deposits, that's all. But what about just new types? Deposits that give mixed resources, deposits that give empire modifiers, deposits that give planet modifiers... there is a hell of a lot possible. And their themes could be places of specific interest (rather than territories or commodities) like an ancient sand temple of whatever. There could be loads of these. But I don't know what.

Deposits for uninhabitable worlds
This would be purely for flavour, I don't actually know if there is any game-play benefit to such a thing.

This mod could probably be back ported to the apocalypse era of the game for the actual genuine tile system. I know that's a really silly thing to think about but... these features and blockers could be given interesting adjacency effects and all sorts. It would probably be really cool to play with!


So anyway that's it. If you guys have thoughts on these and want to chat about it being implemented, let me know!