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About this mod
This is a stock Young Gun Start, with three major changes:
• Your starter ship is the new ‘Improved’ Teladi Buzzard.
• The ‘reward’ ship you get for rescuing Boso Ta during the HQ Plot is now the new ‘Improved’ Terran Falx.
• Super highways are removed, but the sector 'ring' superhighways passed through are exposed
- Permissions and credits
Note: The Egosoft Terran (CoH) expansion is required in order to run this mod.
This mod is based on the stock Young Gun game start, but with three very significant changes:
OK, but why another game start?
Well, I often need to start a fresh game in order to test out mods and ideas. The stock Young Gun game start provided by Egosoft worked OK for this, but frankly the starting ship was pretty useless.
Step 1: I had always admired the looks of the Teladi Buzzard (sort of “Industrial Chic”), but flying around in it was like driving a tank...a really slow tank. After a bit of thought, I decided to add a new 'Improved' variant of the venerable Teladi Buzzard heavy fighter...one with much-improved performance.
Step 2: Since I never much cared for the"Super Highways" that were introduced with the X4 series, I also decided to remove them. It's a personal preference...there is no "right or wrong…it’s your game, so play it however you like! However, one thing I did like about the superhighways was the ability “hop on” to the ring early in the game and quickly expose a bunch of useful sectors. So instead of the limited number of sectors exposed in the stock Young Gun start, the full “sector ring” is now exposed.
Step 3: After way too many restarts of X4 Foundations, I found myself less than thrilled with the anemic 'reward' ships you received for rescuing Boso Ta. No disrespect to the Osprey, Cerberus or Gorgon, but I wanted something with faster, with a bit more 'punch'. So I created an 'Improved' variant of the Terran Falx Frigate as a replacement reward ship.
So, to begin...
You are Skippa Da'lizard IX, a clever, inquisitive Teladi...with occasional anger-management issues. You own a very fast and a well-equipped Teladi Improved Buzzard. As per the stock Young Gun start, you begin in the hanger of the Argon Equipment Dock in Black Hole Sun IV. The Superhighways have been removed, and instead all the original 'ring sectors' that the superhighways had passed through are now exposed. The Faction reputations are as per the stock Young Gun start. As a bonus, you also get the spacesuit upgrades, because...why not?
With the exception of your character being a cute Teladi lizard, the cool ship, 125,000 starting credits, removed superhighways (and additional exposed “ring sectors”), this is pretty much the stock Young Gun Start.
Towards the end of the HQ Plot sequence, when you are finally asked to rescue Boso, you will now find an abandoned ‘Improved’ Falx Frigate instead of the usual Osprey, Cerberus or Gorgon. It does not matter what race owned the station you scanned to trigger the HQ Plot…you will always get an ‘Improved’ Falx. Enjoy!
The boring details:
You start out as a handsome, well-dressed lizard in the hanger of the Argon Equipment Dock in Black Hole Sun IV.
Your starter ship is the newly introduced"Improved" variant of the Teladi Buzzard, complete with:
Credits:
This mod is based on the stock Young Gun game start, but with three very significant changes:
- Your starter ship is an‘Improved’ variant of the Teladi Buzzard heavy fighter, rather than that nasty little Elite.
- The M class ‘reward’ ship you receive for rescuing Boso Ta is now a fully-tricked out ‘Improved’ variant of the Terran Falx Frigate. (Regardless of which race owns the station you scan to start the HQ Plot, you will always get the Improved Falx.)
- The superhighways have been removed. To offset the lack of superhighways, all of the sectors that previously had superhighways running through them are now exposed from the start.
OK, but why another game start?
Well, I often need to start a fresh game in order to test out mods and ideas. The stock Young Gun game start provided by Egosoft worked OK for this, but frankly the starting ship was pretty useless.
Step 1: I had always admired the looks of the Teladi Buzzard (sort of “Industrial Chic”), but flying around in it was like driving a tank...a really slow tank. After a bit of thought, I decided to add a new 'Improved' variant of the venerable Teladi Buzzard heavy fighter...one with much-improved performance.
Step 2: Since I never much cared for the"Super Highways" that were introduced with the X4 series, I also decided to remove them. It's a personal preference...there is no "right or wrong…it’s your game, so play it however you like! However, one thing I did like about the superhighways was the ability “hop on” to the ring early in the game and quickly expose a bunch of useful sectors. So instead of the limited number of sectors exposed in the stock Young Gun start, the full “sector ring” is now exposed.
Step 3: After way too many restarts of X4 Foundations, I found myself less than thrilled with the anemic 'reward' ships you received for rescuing Boso Ta. No disrespect to the Osprey, Cerberus or Gorgon, but I wanted something with faster, with a bit more 'punch'. So I created an 'Improved' variant of the Terran Falx Frigate as a replacement reward ship.
So, to begin...
You are Skippa Da'lizard IX, a clever, inquisitive Teladi...with occasional anger-management issues. You own a very fast and a well-equipped Teladi Improved Buzzard. As per the stock Young Gun start, you begin in the hanger of the Argon Equipment Dock in Black Hole Sun IV. The Superhighways have been removed, and instead all the original 'ring sectors' that the superhighways had passed through are now exposed. The Faction reputations are as per the stock Young Gun start. As a bonus, you also get the spacesuit upgrades, because...why not?
With the exception of your character being a cute Teladi lizard, the cool ship, 125,000 starting credits, removed superhighways (and additional exposed “ring sectors”), this is pretty much the stock Young Gun Start.
Towards the end of the HQ Plot sequence, when you are finally asked to rescue Boso, you will now find an abandoned ‘Improved’ Falx Frigate instead of the usual Osprey, Cerberus or Gorgon. It does not matter what race owned the station you scanned to trigger the HQ Plot…you will always get an ‘Improved’ Falx. Enjoy!
The boring details:
You start out as a handsome, well-dressed lizard in the hanger of the Argon Equipment Dock in Black Hole Sun IV.
- You already have a fast, well-equipped Teladi Heavy Fighter.
- You’ve got 125,000 credits burning a hole in your pocket.
- Your spacesuit has been fully upgraded.
- The superhighways have been removed, and instead the original 'ring sectors' that the superhighways passed through are now exposed.
- …everything else is per the stock Young Gun Game Start.
Your starter ship is the newly introduced"Improved" variant of the Teladi Buzzard, complete with:
- Engine: Paranid Combat Mk3
- Thruster: AllroundMk3
- Shield: TeladiMk3
- Weapons:3xBolt Repeater Mk2
Credits:
- Thanks to stupidprocess for creating the nosuperhighways mod, and especially for allowing others to incorporate his work. (https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/80
- ...and of course, thanks to Egosoft for their long-standing support of the X3/X4 modding community.