No longer is pursuit limited to the mechanoid faction. Now, you can get any faction that you'd like to endlessly pursue you, a la the "Pursuing Mechanoids" scenario part -- except even more ruthless! All you need to do is add the [b]Ruthless Faction Pursuit[/b] scenario part to any scenario, customize it to your liking, and go!
Ruthless Factions will raid your bases endlessly -- by default, every 18-35 days. And when they start raiding a colony, they [i]won't[/i] stop. Leaving and founding a new colony will give you another 18-35 days, just like in the vanilla Pursuing Mechanoids scenario; and just like that scenario, Ruthless Factions will pursue you across the globe until the faction is destroyed (or until the mechhive is destroyed, if the pursuing faction is the Mechanoids).
Pursuit will also stop if you become non-hostile with the faction. If you become hostile to them again afterward, then pursuit will begin again, possibly with minimal warning!
There is a setting to make a faction "permanent hostile". This will reset the faction's goodwill to -100 every in-game hour if it isn't already -100, forcing hostilities and constant pursuit. Unfortunately, due to the way factions are defined, it isn't reasonably possible for this mod to make a faction truly permanently hostile (or to make a permanently hostile faction [i]not[/i] hostile). But this workaround should work well enough.
There are also a number of additional options to customize the Ruthless Faction:
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[*] [b]Start Hostile[/b] lets you set a non-permanent-hostile Ruthless Faction to not start the game hostile to you (or at least, with degraded relations relative to normal). This means they will only start to Ruthlessly Pursue you if you piss them off.
[*] [b]Initial Raid Delay[/b] and [b]Initial Raid Variance[/b] control how long it takes for the faction to raid your starting map. In the vanilla Pursuing Mechanoids scenario, these are 12 and 0 respectively, meaning that the first raid is always exactly 12 hours after starting the game.
[*] [b]Raid Mean Delay[/b] and [b]Raid Delay Variance[/b] control how much time passes between you first arriving on a map and the faction raiding you for every map [i]after[/i] your starting map. In vanilla, these are 636 and 204 respectively, meaning that you always get raided between 18 and 35 days after settling.
[*] [b]Warning Alert Mean[/b] and [b]Warning Alert Variance[/b] control when you first get an alert telling you how much time you have before the faction arrives. The Warning Alert Mean is the number of hours [i]before[/i] the Raid Mean Delay that you get a warning, so smaller values mean that you get less forewarning, while larger values mean more forewarning. In vanilla, these are 276 and 24 respectively, effectively meaning that you always get the alert between 14 and 16 days after first arriving on a map. [b]NOTE:[/b] If (Raid Mean Delay - Raid Delay Variance) is a lower value than (Warning Alert Mean + Warning Alert Variance), then you won't get a warning alert until right when the raid happens.
[*] [b]Second Wave Delay[/b] refers to how long it takes for a second raid to arrive on the map after the faction has already raided you. In vanilla, this value is 12.
[*] [b]Endless Waves Delay[/b] refers to how much time passes before a new raid arrives, after the second raid has already arrived. This feature is exclusive to this mod, and the default value is 3.
[*] [b]Normal Raid Candidate[/b] determines whether or not the faction can be chosen for normal raids. If set to false (as is default), the faction will only raid you as a result of these pursuit timers.
[*] [b]Raid Values[/b]. Raid strength is calculated by applying a multiplier to the storyteller's current raid points, and then taking the maximum of that and a second value. E.g. in vanilla, the first raid has a point total that is the maximum of 2000 [i]or[/i] 1.5 times the storyteller's suggested raid points. In the scenario part settings, you can change these values: the Initial/Second/Endless Mult setting changes the multiplier for the Initial/Second/Endless raids, and the Initial/Second/Endless Floor setting changes the raid point floor for the Initial/Second/Endless raids. [b]NOTE:[/b] Mods that hijack or intercept the raid point calculation might play slightly weirdly with this. The raids will still work just fine, the point values just might not exactly match what you set in the scenario settings.
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For the Variance settings, non-zero variance means that the raid can show up at a random time within Variance hours of the Mean. Set variance to zero, and the raid will always show up exactly at the Mean delay. The greater the variance, the larger the possible range of times.
You can disable the warning alert, just in case you're into getting ambushed. And if you [i]really[/i] don't want to move, you can also disable the endless waves.
This mod should be compatible with other mods that allow you to have non-hostile relations with factions that are normally permanently hostile.
New: Ruthless Omni Pursuit!
The [b]Ruthless Omni Pursuit[/b] scenario part has all of the same customization options as the Ruthless Faction Pursuit scenario part, but the options will be applied to [b]every faction on the map![/b] Now you can play with [i]everyone[/i] being on your ass without having to tediously setup scenario parts for every faction you play with!
As to why this mod exists,
it all started with the "Pursuing Mechanoids" scenario part.
To explain, in base Odyssey, there is a "Pursuing Mechanoids" scenario part that will cause the Mechanoids to assault your colony after 18-35 days, encouraging a nomadic playstyle. It was added for the Odyssey-specific gravship start, but you can technically add the scenario part to any scenario. Sounds cool, right?
Except, there are two key problems:
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[*] The mechanoids only pursue you if you have a grav engine. More specifically, they only attack maps that have a grav engine, and only if a gravship landed on that map (aside from when you first get the grav engine). No engine, no pursuit. This means that adding the "Pursuing Mechanoids" scenario part to any scenario that doesn't start you with a gravship results in nothing happening until you actually get the grav engine. And then, when you [i]do[/i] get the grav engine, the game immediately slaps you with a sudden 10 hour warning, because the Pursuing Mechanoids scenario part [i]expects[/i] its first timer to activate on the gravship scenario's starting orbital platform, not some random forest in the middle of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nowhere.
[*] The mechanoids only send two waves of mechs at you, and are even gracious enough to give you 12 hours between waves. Find a way to beat them, and you're home free, baby. They'll never attack that map again (except through standard raids).
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With [b]Ruthless Faction Pursuit[/b], not only are you no longer restricted to being pursued by mechanoids, but you also will be pursued whether or not you have a grav engine. That's right, you can use this scenario part in gravship-less runs!
All of the non-debug text strings have localization keys, so feel free to upload translations if you want. I've included the source code in the mod upload too, so feel free to make your own edits and upload new versions of the mod. I only ask that you credit me.
Github Repo: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmatathias%2FRuthless-Faction-Pursuit]https://github.com/matathias/Ruthless-Faction-Pursuit[/url]
Translations:
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[*] Chinese: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3625850016]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3625850016[/url]
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