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Shield Variants with Racial Perks and TechTree
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Shield Variants with Racial Perks and TechTree

Description
If you want to be able to research the shields you need to select the perk at race creation.
The perk does not directly give techs like the other selectables in the section do.

The shield variants are:
- Heavy Shields (blue): triple cost, double size and strength
- Fast Recharge Shields (purple): triple cost, double size, half recharge timer (this time reduces even more at higher tech, recharges at double speed on class 1 and gets quite a bit faster on higher tiers
- Hardened Shields (yellow): triple cost, double size, double damage absorbtion
- Hyper Shields (red): 6x cost plus gets more expensive for higher tech shields, triple size, combines all of the above
- Light Shields (green): 3/4 cost, half size and shield strength

Also be warned: the Guardian is now sporting one of the big hyper shields so he won't be going down as easily
The dragon got a smaller one of those and both hydra, eel, and squid got different shield variants, which makes them significantly more durable

It borrows slightly from Sunshine and Happiness' mod (light and heavy shields, though it uses different values and art) and requires UCP and 5X

The colored shield icons are courtesy of sconya.
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Cend  [author] 13 Mar @ 3:14am 
No worries.
Yes the perk is needed to be able to research the improved shields and does not directly give an applicable tech (and since the shields are pretty powerful, i gave that perk the 4 point cost).

As for the mods and order: just UCP, 5x and 5x comp in that order before this one.
jasonft 12 Mar @ 1:40pm 
Started a new game after clicking on that Perk. Seems to work fine now.

Sorry for the trouble.
jasonft 12 Mar @ 1:26pm 
I did not pick the perk at creation because, so I thought, it would be like some others that let you cheat by starting with things like Terraforming. First game where I tried to use this mod, did not try to research it until Shield X because other priorities.

Do I need to select the Perk at game start to research those technologies?

Also, what mods are required and what load order? If it is just that you need to select that perk at start to use those technologies I will be relieved.
Cend  [author] 12 Mar @ 8:31am 
Did you pick the Shield Perk (Advanced Shield Modification) at race creation?
Do you have the required Mods installed?
Do you have other mods installed that modify the research tree?
jasonft 12 Mar @ 4:56am 
All of the shield variants, even the very first one, have a locked icon on them when I looked just now. My game is not allowing me to research them and seems to hang for at least brief periods when switching in or out of the tree.
jasonft 12 Mar @ 4:49am 
No, no. I mean on the research options screen. I try to select researching the shield variants and nothing happens. I can click on RESEARCH, click on VIEW RESEARCH TREE, click on any or all of the variants, but the DONE button lower right never lights up.

Worth noting that the available research screen you see before seeing the tree never includes any of the variants.

Curious. I clicked on it just now in another window while typing this. DONE lit up, went back to the game in progress screen, still showed me researching one of the hyper advanced techs. Rinse, repeat. Finished my turn after trying and failing to get it to display and finished the hyper advanced tech (only had one turn left anyhow). Clicked through to the tree and now back to DONE never lighting up.
Cend  [author] 11 Mar @ 1:54pm 
I just made a Doomstar with Hyper Shields and it's not taking longer than normal to select the shields. That is to say half a second or so.
Which shield variant are you trying to install?
jasonft 11 Mar @ 3:33am 
For some reason it is not letting me select the new variants. Either that or it is taking an absurdly long time once I click on the variant to then display it. Is this a known glitch?

I was so looking forward to Doom Stars with Hyper Shields. Alas.
Project Dandelous 18 Nov, 2024 @ 7:49pm 
thank you for the work and fixes! we welcome many new mods that include and add new tech trees, technologies, new ships, new planets and new weapons. :slime:
Cend  [author] 30 Sep, 2024 @ 3:59am 
I rebalanced the shields size-wise a bit. Hyper shields also got their cost reduced since they were more or less unusable at higher levels.
Also, both recharge and hyper shields got their recharge reduced since it made ships unreasonably durable.