Must-have LU mods?

Pind · Post by **Pind** » Fri, 22. May 15, 10:03

Hi there,

After 100 hours in XRM and a 3 month break (and a new PC!) I'm about to give LU a try.

Have two main things to ask:

1) What are must-have mods for LU? Which are the stable ones that add convenience, or additional depth?

2) I heard there used to be an awesome soundtrack, but it was removed. Any way I can get that??

BTW, am looking for biased opinions here no need to be objective!

Cheers,
Pind

olek_skilgannon · Post by **olek_skilgannon** » Fri, 22. May 15, 10:22

Pind wrote:Hi there,

After 100 hours in XRM and a 3 month break (and a new PC!) I'm about to give LU a try.

Have two main things to ask:

1) What are must-have mods for LU? Which are the stable ones that add convenience, or additional depth?

2) I heard there used to be an awesome soundtrack, but it was removed. Any way I can get that??

BTW, am looking for biased opinions here no need to be objective!

Cheers,
Pind

I don't think there are a great deal of mods out there that work with LU, a chap just recently listed a some, so they shouldn't be far down the page, this list is growing though.

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=380168

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Fri, 22. May 15, 10:22

Hiya,

Although I don't have personal experience of them, the following neat collation should be a good place to look:

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=380168

Regards,
Sparks

Pind · Post by **Pind** » Fri, 22. May 15, 10:37

This is the list I'm leaning towards before starting:

Anarkis Pirate Guild: Intelligent Pirate Behavior (LU Edition)
Quick Wings by kaistern
Small Improvements and Fixes by memeics
Diverse Game Starts - LU Edition by solarahawk
X-Missions Reloaded by Joubarbe
Mk3 Improvement Reloaded Reloaded by Raaaak
Litcube's Universe Gold UI HUD by TrixX
Ship Browser - In Game Ship Comparison Tool by zanzai

Basically if anyone has experiences with these mods and can tell me if there are any drawbacks that would be great! Or simply vouch for a submod that is in your opinion MUST HAVE!

Hector0x · Post by **Hector0x** » Fri, 22. May 15, 14:53

Thanks to the excellent import-export feature of LU you can safely install and uninstall mods. I would start with "Diverse Game Starts" if you want and try the other ones when you get the hang of LU vanilla and reach a certain progress.

Zaitsev · Post by **Zaitsev** » Fri, 22. May 15, 17:20

Pind wrote:This is the list I'm leaning towards before starting:

Anarkis Pirate Guild: Intelligent Pirate Behavior (LU Edition)

Quick Wings by kaistern

Small Improvements and Fixes by memeics

Diverse Game Starts - LU Edition by solarahawk

X-Missions Reloaded by Joubarbe

Mk3 Improvement Reloaded Reloaded by Raaaak

Litcube's Universe Gold UI HUD by TrixX

Ship Browser - In Game Ship Comparison Tool by zanzai

Basically if anyone has experiences with these mods and can tell me if there are any drawbacks that would be great! Or simply vouch for a submod that is in your opinion MUST HAVE!

The only hiccup I know of is that one of the components in the Small Improvements and Fixes package, the Percentage calculation fix for large ware quantities, is based on an old version of LU and therefore reintroduce the bug where freighters will run back and forth without picking up wares. I don't know if memeics has fixed that particular bug yet, but if you just skip that part for now you should be good to go.

dizzy · Post by **dizzy** » Fri, 22. May 15, 21:15

Zaitsev, no I did not, I'm still waiting for someone to send me a savegame that showcases the problem, then I can fix it and confirm it's fixed with the savegame.

Anyway, there are a couple of very easy things anyone can do to avoid that issue:

deselect it from the installation, when prompted, just deselect the "Percentage Calculation Fix" change
or, install it but just make sure you don't use Overstocking on your docks in the Dockware Manager (I never used it in my game and may explain why I never encountered the issue myself)

Pind · Post by **Pind** » Sat, 23. May 15, 21:45

Thanks for the tips guys.

This is the list I ended up going with:

Anarkis Pirate Guild: Intelligent Pirate Behavior (LU Edition)
Quick Wings by kaistern
Small Improvements and Fixes by memeics
Diverse Game Starts - LU Edition by solarahawk
X-Missions Reloaded by Joubarbe
Ship Browser - In Game Ship Comparison Tool by zanzai

Will report back in the LU thread later once I've played a bunch

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