This mod is intended to significantly lower the price of the various blueprints available from all factions. This will make station and ship building more available and come into play far earlier than normal.

Prices of wares, components, ships, etc. are unaffected; only the prices for the blueprints themselves have been changed. Likewise the requirements to purchase said blueprints have not been altered. This price change is configurable using the Extension Options menu, which can be found in the main menu after starting or loading a game.

Installation

Extract the files to the game's extensions directory. If upgrading from version 1.00, please either remove or empty the previous version's mod folder first.

Compatibility

This mod hooks into the Licences and Blueprints dialog functionality, but does so in a minimal way, so it should be compatible with other mods accessing the same scripts. The changes introduced should function both in an existing save and a new game.

Known Issues

It's been reported that the ships and components are made cheaper as well, which is not intentional. Looking into the cause and a fix for this behavior.
Update (2021-04-28): This issue is fixed as of version 1.01.

Shoutouts

Thanks to the #x4_modding channel of the Egosoft Discord server for all of their help. In particular, thanks to Kuertee and UniTrader for their help getting the MD/Lua version working.

And, of course, thanks to EgoSoft for making this game in the first place.