FINALLY FINISHED WITH THE UPDATE
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@Voidlord Yes, almost like I copied their original science focus buildings.

i say less that they copied them, more that they brought back science buildings for each field

Love your mod! Can't wait to re-enable it. :)

For example, I might have to remove the extra tech mult for specific tech category buildings, as they added buildings that does something extremely similar. (Field Dynamics Center, Materials Workshop, etc.) As well as Hydro Fractor and Hydro-light fields.

Its actually scary how similar vanilla ended up adding as their replacements...

I am working on an update for 4.0, and yes, this version breaks 4.0. Some techs and buildings are being made redundant as Vanilla decided to implement the same thing! Must have stolen from my mod. >:(

I will mostly get it in a state that isn't broken and make a release then. And include new things if I have the time.

Any ETA for a 4.0 update?

this breaks the ships on 4.0

Should know that most of the lore stuff, about how things works can't be changed. I've had a few people reach out on improving the desc, but changes the meaning of everything, basically turning the mod into their story.

@Setibear Feel free to add me on steam.

i can lend a hand with editing the mod descriptions if you're still looking for someone

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@KeinNiemand I've pre calculated the bonuses and their costs, as the bonus gives only to the specific tech category, it's not actually that much more extra, but allows u to specialize Ur technology like how I used to be able to.

Immortalization tech needs to be updated. Specifically, 'leader_lifespan_add = 80' should replace the old way of doing it, which was 'leader_age = 80'

I think this moddd gives a bit to many techs that buff research speed and/or scientist output (like the

Looking at files I think the check if an empire uses consumer goods is country_uses_consumer_goods

I will admit that some of the codes might be outdated and vanilla has a new better method that I should check to make sure, because there wasn't a provided check to see if a empire uses consumer goods, vanilla just straight up checks if you are a hive or not.

For some reason I can't build public forge on hive worlds despite having mining districts the tooltip says
X Has mining district
✓ Does NOT have District: Astro Mining Bay
X Does NOT have District: Mining District

And while I can build Public Land I don't seem to getting any Brain Drone Jobs from it on hive worlds (pretty sure it worked fine on normal planets).

As for Power Divider can't you just check if the empire uses consumer goods instead of banning from hive outright? I know some CG stuff from other mods says it's only availible for empires that use consumer goods and that works fine for my consumer goods using hive so it must be possible to change the check for power divider into a check wheter or not the empire uses consumer goods.

I should also note it on the tech that its an upgrade and set the text that way too.

I had added text detailing what upgrades into the building, and what it upgrades to.

Because High Efficiency Photovoltaic adds solar fields, which is available for everyone. There really isn't a way to hide the Power Divider from showing on the tech, its why vanilla just makes a tech for buildings that needs to be hidden and hide the tech.

Computing Super System did show up, I just didn't realize it's an upgrade to Simple Testing Grounds instead of it's own building.
I'm playing with Bug Branch which trough a specific combination of hive ethics gives hives the need for consumer goods, werid that that made the tech show up but dosn't allow building the building.

Power Divider mainly creates consumer goods, so by default I had it follow the way how the consumer goods building buildings behaved which is that hive can't build them. In the case of vanilla Stellaris, the tech doesn't even show up. I will have to play test a hive to see why the Computing Super System building doesn't show tho.

I unlocked Computing Super System has a hive but it didn't unlock the building it's supposed to unlock,
I also reasearch High Efficiency Photovoltaic and did not unlock Power Divider.
Not sure if ihis is a problem with the mod itself or if this is some weird mod interaction/conflict.

Yes.

is this still functional?

Yeah, I played the 3.0 one for three years before switching to this one. That is why I said 100 MB, really 120 MB.

Good job cutting the fat. From 100 MB to 20 MB.

@Zarathustra Why do you think so? Its been a long time since that building being there and this is the first time someone said anything, and its from a person that looks like they are making something up.

A little worried about growing buildings tanking performance but this is interesting so far

Yes, I have gotten reports saying the same thing. Including the subterranean mining district, these are both things I need to add checks for because they are inherently different districts. Lazy me will say that fishing isn't land and shouldn't count.

Protected Lands doesn't seem to work with the Anglers civic?

is fine with RIG Unique Shipset 4.0 please? (sorry for my bad english)

@Aflack Should be, there haven't been any reports yet and seems stable.

I love how there's like 20 different versions of this mod, though gotta ask if this is compatible with 3.13

Save compatible with current version of the game?

Most likely that the subterranean mining district is not the same type of mining district. Stellaris dev does that a few times before, where they keep the icon and name the same but they are different.

When playing with the origin subterranean, the public forge both wants "Has district: Mining District" and "Does not have district: mining district"

I don't want an exact list of what's in the mod, I just want a very rough idea of how large this mod is so I can compare it against other tech tier adding mods and pick the best.

Can't say what's in the mod because discovery is part of Stellaris and a personal preference, you can always download it, load it and use console to unlock all techs to check on it. But knowing already will cause you to enjoy the game less IMO.

Can you give me a rough idea on how big/small this mod is? How many tiers of tech does it add? How mcuh does it add to every tier? Does it just add more ship components or does it provide more economic stuff like buildigs, modifier techs, ...
Is it just the basic (more tiers of existing stuff) or do the higher tiers unlock anything unique or orignal?

Would it be possible to add support for the new cosmogenesis ship types? (cosmo_crisis_destroyer, cosmo_crisis_battlecruiser, and cosmo_crisis_titan). I got the Illuminator drive shortly after unlocking Riddler ships, and was sad to see they weren't supported.

Yes, the armor issue should be fixed in this version, but just to be safe, tell me if it is still broken. I did do testing, and the AI also seems to use the parts correctly too.

Does this also have the fix for the no armor issue? My gaming community has been without Stellaris for a month because this mod was broken (it's our favorite, big kudos to your work).

The idea is that you are meant to abandon your old weak traits, and start using the stronger traits.

Currently, you can still use them even if you have other traits, but of course, the plan is to pick and choose which trait would make it not be available. Which is most likely just the common starter traits. Not the ones you are stuck with.

Don't think i fully understand the trait technologies, if i have some traits that cannot be removed (let's say virtual or a trait from another mod that is unremovable) would that make it impossible for me to acquire the traits? For all i know i might just be stupid on this one hah

@clay you need to download Universal resource patch

hi! I'd love a portrait mod of that thumbnail! she looks pretty o-o
anyone can make one?

its probably something on my end, but is there a way to see the resources added by this mod? the ones for illunia lining, and the reactor after dark matter? just wanting to know if i need to add another mod to see stuff, or if one of the ones i have is blocking me from seeing it.