Personal Notes
First things first, these are my first two mods in form of simple patches for Replimat and MedPod. Please forgive any mistakes I might have made in crediting, file structure or whatever and let me know.
Why did I create this patch?
I totally enjoy the mods sumghai created. As I usually play a modded game, I observed that compared to my overall research tree I was able to gain both technologies and buildings too easily. Through unlocking those high tier buildings relatively early and abusing their mechanics I became unhappy with my gamestyle. So I thought about it and created some adjustments.
What is this patch about?
According to sumghai, the Medpod "stimulates and guides the patient's own healing, albeit at a vastly accelerated rate than is naturally possible". I want to uphold this fundamental idea and adjust some settings to my liking. For me the Medpod represents the pinnacle in medical achievments and therefore all other medical knowledge available should be obtained first. I want the game to reflect that and make my pawns feel proud of owning even one of those devices.
What will be changed?
Vanilla Core & Royalty gameplay:
- Research project becomes Ultra-Tech and two additional prerequisites are added.
- Energy consumption is increased. Implemented in Medpod.
- Diagnose and healing time are increased by 40%.
- Building costs increased. Implemented in Medpod.
Modded gameplay:
- RBSE: more research prerequisites
- Medical supplies (continued): more research prerequisites
- Harvest Organs Post Mortem: more research prerequisites
- War Crimes Expanded 2 Core: more research prerequisites
- Replimat: add isolinear modules to building costs
- Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Spacer Module: more research prerequisites
- Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Power: more research prerequisites
- Expanded Materials - Metals: adapt building costs to include new materials
Credits
Robin "sumghai" Chang, author of MedPod
License
I chose to (and believe I am also supposed to) license this mod under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)[creativecommons.org]
Notes
Testing went fine so far. I had no issues.
I will look into into the suggestions in the discussion regarding even higher power consumption when using certain mods.
