Empire Settlement from VOE Town
TL;DR: This mod requires that Empire settlements be founded on a Town outpost from Vanilla Outposts Expanded.
Empire and Vanilla Outposts Expanded are both pretty fun mods, and despite doing similar things, I find they can complement each other surprisingly well.
However, there's zero actual interaction between the two mods. Additionally, I've always felt that it's too easy to get Empire settlements up and running. All they require is silver, which is exactly what they passively give you over time. Scrounge up the silver to found one Empire settlement (or pick the Expansionist trait), and the passive income will, by itself, fund further Empire expansion. It's too easy.
In that regard, I prefer VOE's pawn investment. And so, I had an idea: what if Empire settlements required that you first found a VOE Town? Now, the power of a settlement is gated behind both silver [i]and[/i] pawns, which is a fairer price given everything that a settlement can give you.
And if you add on my recent mod [b][url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3639689727]Vanilla Expanded Outposts: Settings for Towns[/url][/b], then you can also change VOE Towns to require nearby outposts. The overall progression then becomes: 1. found a few outposts 2. found a VOE town 3. finally, turn that town into an Empire settlement.
Makes the whole thing more meaningful, in my opinion.
How it works
Once you've created a VOE Town, you need to go through the Empire interface to create a new settlement. Select the town, and then click the settle button. 1 tick later, the Town will be transformed into an Empire settlement!
The pawns that existed within the town will be moved to the Empire faction, and their cumulative skills will provide a production bonus to the resulting settlement. The magnitude of this bonus, and whether or not it scales, can both be changed in the mod settings. (Note: the production bonus is somewhat hidden by Empire's UI. It doesn't affect the base production value, but it [i]will[/i] affect the final production value.)
Like this mod?
I've just posted another mod that adds further Empire-Vanilla Outposts Expanded integration: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3640951712][b]Empire: Deliver Taxes to VOE Outposts[/b][/url]!
