Avorion

Avorion

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25 May, 2019 @ 10:04am
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Station Tether Upgrade

Description
This mod adds a new System Upgrade to the game: The Station Tether

While permanently equipped to a station, nearby alliance ships and player ships of the same alliance are tethered to the station. Tethered ships will not lose hull hp.

The Station Tether makes it possible to store vulnerable ships and even ship hulls at stations without having to worry about their destruction on alien and pirate attacks. It is meant to be an alternative to a docking mechanic.

Be aware that by default the system will not prevent block and ship destruction. Instead of making the ships invincible, the system checks every 0.25 seconds if any of the tethered ships have lost hp since the last check and restores it if necessary. This has the advantage that the ship's hull can still be repaired. However, this behavior still allows damage in general and will therefore not prevent destruction if enough damage is dealt within these 0.25 seconds.

Supports english, german and chinese language

If you want to add, improve, optimize something or just want to make sure your mod stays compatible to this one, feel free to fork this project on github and create a pull request.
https://github.com/MassCraxx/Avorion-StationTether
If you like my mods and want to do me a solid, feel free to buymeacoff.ee/MassCraxx =)

Thanks to Maxadam for the chinese translation.
24 Comments
josephine.ocampo25 2 Apr @ 6:43am 
This reminds me of the shielded xsotan in rifts I hope you make a version for ships but since the shielded xsotan are quite literally immune to damage you will have to balance it
Awesome_Dante 21 Jul, 2024 @ 1:35am 
Using this on stations in transport mode, docked to your main ship will create a mobile fortress. But you are limited to 300/mps speed or it shuts off.
So in theory if you built a ship that could tuck a portable station behind a wall inside the ship, dock it, then remove engines until max speed is garbage. You will have a dang near invincible ship :O
Thundercraft 28 Dec, 2022 @ 5:20pm 
Know any public servers that use this mod?
Greystar 25 Aug, 2022 @ 4:06am 
So I encountered what I think is an issue with this mod. When It tethers a ship and you move away from the tether point, your ship still has VERY bad acceleration regardless of what it had before it got tethered. Haven't checked to see if a restart fixes it or not.
TheDerpyDeed 15 Aug, 2022 @ 3:29pm 
Awesome but... very OP... can we somehow make this a boss drop? that corrupted AI doesn't drop any good rewards so that'd be good, make it an endgame mod
MassCraxx  [author] 10 Oct, 2021 @ 7:26am 
Yes exactly, that was actually the inspiration for it.
what dose it do ?
like EVE station reside?
MassCraxx  [author] 6 Dec, 2020 @ 7:29am 
@Maxadam Thank you very much for your effort! I added your chinese translation and also added german to it.
Maxadam 5 Dec, 2020 @ 1:05am 
@MassCraxx This is your mod translation to Chinese: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t2htdW_GaTw-DJbqI08anmhrJ0FW4XAc/view?usp=sharing
And please add "%_t" after words which can be translated. I want to translate your other mods and it's difficult for me to find the words.
Please mark my name in your description. Thanks
MassCraxx  [author] 11 Apr, 2020 @ 10:06am 
@adamsrealm Yes, being a system that only can be installed on a station, the power consumption compared to other system upgrades in the game is pretty high. But, since the system virtually makes your surrounding ships invulnerable, I think an investment of around 5-20k trinium for generators on your shielding station is very reasonable. If you disagree, feel free to edit L450-454 of the stationtether.lua file located inside your steam workshop directory.