Anyways, I customized some mods I downloaded so much that that they have been completely rewritten and/or extended.
So here goes...
I am hereby introducing Baely the time saver
Baely v1.0 - Steam Link
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Somewhere along midgame, X-Rebirth starts having so many repetitive micromanagement tasks that it becomes difficult to stay interested.
So I made this mod to "SETA" my way forward, if you will, and skip employee hunting and get back to boarding and station building and all that other good stuff faster.
This mod adds a few sub-menus under Main > Crew (ENTER-7)
2."Call Remotely" - Intercom function identical to the vanilla version that you normally see only while inside a station.
3."Hire crew for me"
->1."Man them capital ships!"- Generates and hires crew for all the player owned capital ships in sector. Each new employee cost 150% to 200% of normal hiring fees.
->2."Claim them ships" - Automatically claims all ownerless ships in zone, hiring fees apply.
4."I need repairs" - Places a friendly engineer on the closest owned capital ship to allow for repairs
5."Hire me a Specialist"
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- - Choose a specialist, any specialist. Costs 200% to 300% of normal hiring fees. Bypasses incarnation system problem and places it, player-owned, in skunk backroom.
These functions use custom characters/charactergroups to ensure each NPC has vanilla star levels with only primary skills at 5 stars.
While I was at it, I modified the ship trader scripts to hire the smexy Baely commander and pilots instead of the bland, mediocre argon pilots they normally hire.
Baely Jump v1.0 - Steam Link
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Originally, this was included with Baely but with so many other Jump drive mods out there, I decided to detach it.
I drew inspiration from J3ANP3T3R's jump function from Betty AI and Angel618's 100% Jump Drive to create yet another flavor of the jump drive.
Greatly simplified its usage. Just ENTER-4-5 to open map and select any discovered zone to jump to.
Reduced and/or removed most of the restrictions and penalties and annoying lights/sounds the predecessors had. Only has a ~20s charge-up time.
and lastly....
Baely Station NPC Spawn v1.0 - Steam Link
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This mod takes Black Rain's NPC On Player Stations mod to the next level.
It is a Station NPC Spawning System for player owned stations, it's as close as possible to the system used by vanilla NPC stations.
On zone change, each player owned station in zone takes into account its current location and player's reputation with each faction to populate each dock with NPCs.
The most friendly factions that belong to the same home system have highest spawn chance. Uses custom characters/charactergroups similarly to Baely.
Default star level is random 4-5 stars on primary skills, this range can be changed at the top of the BailyNPCSpawn.xml file. Set it at 3 to have the same star ranges as NPCs on NPC Stations.
Note: Specialists are not spawned here in order to avoid problems with the incarnation system and the persistent actor bs.
Developed using X Rebirth v3.60
So I'm not sure if it's playable on older versions.
Feedback is welcomed.
Credits
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BlackRain whose (simplistic) NPCSpawn Mod inspired me to start my own modding. (thanks)
J3ANP3T3R, Yorrick Vander, Mad_Joker.
....in XX century.
