Update?

Doesn't seem to effect upkeep anymore. Comparing the same ship with and without and same upkeep.

man this sounds cool asf

any updates?

i get an error that it will not work past 1.8. any work arounds?

Can the defense fleets use Gates?

Tested with 2.0 (Not Apocalypse DLC) it works fine for me. :)

I have no idea, maybe somebody can test? :)

Quick question, is this mod going to be compatible with the 2.0 version and the Apocalypse DLC? It seems to me there are some changes in the ships, so the UI may be a little clustered.

I dunno about "no maintenance cost"; that just feels like a cheat. How about a heavily reduced maintenance cost? :3

Haven't tested it yet but the value for the engine says only 50% upkeep reduction. Shouldnt it be something like 95% or something nice?

Odd behavior regarding upgrading ships with the module. All of the ships indicate they can be 'upgraded', which tries to change it into a different ship of the same class. Really annoying.

Just so anyone knows, yes this works with alphamod fine.

Quick suggestion: Make these ships fleet strength at like .5 or .25, because otherwise it's just helping me save on maintenance cost.

anybody been using this with Alphamod to know if it has any conflict there before beginning and wasting time?

Edit a text file, save, open Stellaris mods tab, mod tools, select this mod from a list of all mods installed, yours or not, reupload entire mod, open steam, find this mods page, edit update notes, replace description since it gets erased every upload. Not hard enough to be interesting, not easy enough for the benefit.

Nice, thanks for the quick reply- does it take more than a button press to update the version tag?

Should work perfectly fine as it just adds a new component.

Does this need an update to current version, or would it work without an update?

@Navarrodelray

Actually the British use defence only about twice as much as defense, while Americans use defense about 5 times more often than defence. Interestingly enough, the British uses defensive, defensiveness, defensively, and defensible which seems to indicate confusion on their part in deciding to settle on S or C for defense/defence.

{LINK REMOVED}http://writingexplained.org/defence-vs-defense-difference

Of course it is probably best for everyone to just follow the grammar rules of your target audience without making judgements about who is right and who is wrong, since technically both are right for their respective users.

Is this 1.4.1 compatible?

@Stalinium Russian Bias
Actually you're wrong. Defence is the correct way to spell "defence". America just butchered the English language. For example, colour has a "u" in it. The spelling "color" is incorrect.
;)

@GenericSpirte, They're both right, But Defense is used by Americans, and Defence is used by everyone else XD

Defence is misspelled :P

In my PreFTL players mods, I initially restricted sublight drives to science and colony ships, so I regularly got AI building non-FTL capable ships and then later only upgrading some of them, despite giving FTL drives higher AI weight in the components file. So the AI impact may not be as bad as feared, but only by dumb luck.

Alright, then I'd best hold off for now. Considering the AI will base its wars off your fleet power, and your fleet power would be insane with a few defensive fleets.

No the AI won't use them - at least for now. I imagine it would be hard to tell them when, where, and to which quantity to build defense fleets over offensive ones. I haven't really looked into AI modding yet, so maybe if I look further into it, I can come up with a way to do that.

Holy hell, this is an AMAZING IDEA! Will the AI use them?