Is it possible to change the range of ships that can be boarded?
I don't really do any modding myself so apologies if this is something trivial that can be done on the user's end.

I will look into this

Originally posted by Luno Ryoko:

Is it possible to change the range of ships that can be boarded?
I don't really do any modding myself so apologies if this is something trivial that can be done on the user's end.

This is fairly simple to do. I thought it would take a bit longer but its straight forward enough.
There is a line in the code under the boarding.lua files. You can change the default number of 600 to a higher number and that will make it board further away. The line you can search for is pasted below. I will change it to be slightly farther than default but if you want it to be farther I suggest changing that yourself. Again please remember that this change needs to be the same in both boarding.lua files. They are both in the Scripts subfolders.

TR_Register_Prox(Object, self.boarding_prox_trigger, 600, nil, self)

Oh, I see that I made this unclear through wording. I was referring to changing which ships could be boardable; I used the word range because Corey mentions the team deciding on a size cut off for boarding from time to time in his streams.
Thank you for looking into the actual range for the ability though, will be helpful to know and have!

I see. Your question of making other ships board able or even heros board able is doable. It does require a lot more work though and is beyond the scope of this mod.
One of the reasons why this doesnt work so well is it can cause some weird issues. When you have a hero like Zjin under the rebels for example it can cause a imperial legitimacy thing to not trigger since zjin is still alive but under rebel control.