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About this mod
Some improvements to the Terran Hokkaido L-sized miners. This includes increased cargo space, a modest speed increase and the ability to carry mining turrets in its M-sized slots for the Mineral miner.
This makes the Hokkaido a completely viable and actual upgrade from the Bolo.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
I found the Hokkaido a little lacklustre and had little to no reason to use it in my Terran playthrough over the Bolo.
This isn't ideal, as I wanted to reduce the number of ships in my mining fleet. Hence I made these changes for myself, and figured I may as well share.
Changes
Cargo space increased from 38,000 to 60,000.
This means the miners can carry 6,000 units of Mineral or 10,000 units of Gas.
Speed (forward) increased by approximately 30% by reducing forward drag.
Hokkaido (Mineral) now accepts Mining turrets in all its M-sized turret slots. I personally only use the top-4 (2 sets of 2) and keep the rear, bottom and forward turrets as defensive ones - but this gives you complete flexibility.
In addition to this, v1.2 adds an extra shield slot. if you don't want this, use v1.1 instead. It's otherwise identical.
Compatibility
What does this not do?
This does not add new Hokkaido variants. I wanted to keep it as simple and compatible as possible - so it modifies the existing Hokkaido and doesn't bloat your game with additional ships.
This isn't ideal, as I wanted to reduce the number of ships in my mining fleet. Hence I made these changes for myself, and figured I may as well share.
Changes
Cargo space increased from 38,000 to 60,000.
This means the miners can carry 6,000 units of Mineral or 10,000 units of Gas.
Speed (forward) increased by approximately 30% by reducing forward drag.
Hokkaido (Mineral) now accepts Mining turrets in all its M-sized turret slots. I personally only use the top-4 (2 sets of 2) and keep the rear, bottom and forward turrets as defensive ones - but this gives you complete flexibility.
In addition to this, v1.2 adds an extra shield slot. if you don't want this, use v1.1 instead. It's otherwise identical.
Compatibility
- Can be added to an existing save.
- Can be removed from an existing save, though some ships may exceed their cargo space limit until they unload the excess and some ships may still have mining turrets equipped.
- All changes are done via xml patches to the existing ships for maximum compatibility.
- For X4 before 6.0: Use v1.00
- For X4 After 6.0: Use v1.1 or v1.2
What does this not do?
This does not add new Hokkaido variants. I wanted to keep it as simple and compatible as possible - so it modifies the existing Hokkaido and doesn't bloat your game with additional ships.