Terran Accelerators

[thedavid]

I just noticed a mod that claims to swap out the base game accelerators for Terran Accelerators in the Sol system. If this is correct, these assets are in the game files but just weren't used. I took a look at them and they are actually REALLY NICE.

I'm not a player who uses mods so I just want to ask if we can get these put into the game officially.

[q111]

The issue about them are that they can't be put into an existing game. Replacing them in an existing game is nearly impossible without breaking the game. That and that people have games that have a playtime of years i doubt we will see them. Althrough i would love them as an option or for example new games (and i doubt that it isn't possible to add a check if it is an existing game to prevent savegames to break)

I personally use the mod too, as the terran accelerators are far more fitting and not as ugly as the usual ones. (and they are also much much smaller)

[xant]

Yes, it seems it was a mistake on the dev's part and they placed the wrong accelerators with CoH, and now it's impossible to fix.

As far as I remember correctly, modders and even a dev looked into it and they couldn't get it working without breaking the savegames. The only way is to start a new game, so they left it the way it is.

[thedavid]

With creative game start there is an option to have no highway. Maybe with budget game start we can have the option to turn on the Terran accelerators. By definition using that would be starting a new game.

[AdrianWir]

What if Egosoft added such a mod as an official, signed add-on? By specifying in the description that it can only be used with a new game. You could enable it for a new game, and disable it for old saves. If someone didn't want to switch like that, they wouldn't have to use it. And the game with such an add-on would be unmodified.

Is that possible? It would probably be easy to do, add something like the Bonus Pack from X3, only with this one change.