Desctiption:

This mod changes the passive loot generated by different frigate types to items better suited for mid- and late gameplay.

By the time player has invested time and units into acquiring and upgrading their frigate fleet to a reasonable level, the loot generated by those frigates in vanilla game (Magnetized Ferrite, Condensed Carbon, units) has very little value. I decided to swap those resources with more valuable items, to make visiting frigates between missions actually worthwhile.

Based on the max score of 50 in dedicated stat for given frigate type:

• industrial frigates will generate up to 10 pieces of Salvaged Data
• trading frigates will generate up to 20 pieces of Tainted Metal
• support frigates will generate up to 5 Warp Cells
  

To keep things balanced, the time for generating single instance of loot has been increased to 10 minutes (default was 30 seconds).

In addition, the messages displayed in starship communicator have been altered to describe the new loot, which is now highlighted with some colors. The dialgoue button "Collect Cargo" has also been renamed into "Collect Items".



Files changed by the mod:

GCFLEETGLOBALS.GLOBAL.MBIN
LANGUAGE\\NMS_LOC4_ENGLISH.MBIN



Installation:

Installation with PAK archive

Copy the file into game's mods directory: GAMEDATA\PCBANKS\MODS

Go to the GAMEDATA\PCBANKS directory and delete or rename the DISABLEMODS.TXT file.

Installation with LUA script

Copy the LUA script into: AMUMMS\ModScript

Run the BUILDMOD.BAT script to compile the mod.

Customization:

Players using the LUA script have the option to adjust the mod functionality to their liking - from reducing the time between instances of loot, through changing the type of items produced, to the messages displayed in communicator. Please read the comments included in the LUA file to learn about the various types of variables used!



Known issues:

Collecting the first instance of loot from a given frigate after installing the mod can reward players hundreds of new items. This effect is not intended, so players are kindly asked to dismiss those items. Pretty please.



Credits:

• Lo2k, IMonk - providing the NMS Extracted Tables
• RedHotTrouble - providing the Sean Mind Blown cutout graphic