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Thunder's EASYgoing [OUTDATED! For v0.707]

For more embark points and minor changes.

This version does not change the lifespan of colonists, leaving the maximum age at the default 100 years. If you'd prefer a version that does all of the following and increase the lifespan to 210, then see my Thunder's EASYgoing (Slow Aging) mod.

1. Increases the base ranged and melee combat experience gain from "3" to "5".
   
2. Increases <inventoryHandSize> from the usual 50 to 64.
   
3. Reduces <customCreatureCost> from 100 to 50. (It reduces the penalty subtracted for modifying a start colonist.)
   
4. Increases <childReducedPoints> from 300 to 500. (It increases the discount for having a child as a start colonist. Before, the discount was -279 points for a child of age "1", or -289 for the rare age "0". Now, the discount is -464 points for age "1", or -497 for age "0".)
   
5. Adds 5 new difficulties and increases the Embark Points for starting out as follows:

• EASYgoing difficulty increases from the "Easy" 7000 points to 8000.
  
• NORMALgoing difficulty increases from the "Normal" 5200 points to 7200.
  
• HARDgoing difficulty increases from the "Hard" 4400 points to 6200.
  
• INSANEgoing difficulty increases from the "Insane" 2600 points to 5200.
  
• NORM-99999 difficulty increases from the "Normal" 5200 points to 99,999.

Now, when starting a new game, you will see 5 new difficulty choices, as mentioned above. These are identical to the usual, equivalent difficulty settings in terms of the number of enemies, the frequency of enemy attacks, how hard the enemy hits, etc. The only difference is that my new difficulties give more Embark Points to start out with.

This is incompatible with EASYaging, EASYmod and Thunder's EASYgoing (Slow Aging) as they change some of the same things.

Currently, this is not recommended for use with Kovit Rebalance Mod as that mod is, currently, hopelessly outdated and buggy.

I believe other mods currently available should work as intended. Do let me know if you have an issue.

To fully take advantage of the changes this mod makes, you will want to start a new game. Otherwise, you won't get the extra Embark Points. Also, you won't get the benefit of a reduced penalty for custom colonists or an increased child start colonist discount.

However, even if you do not select one of my new "going" difficulties, it will still increase the base ranged and melee combat experience gain. Also, even when choosing a default difficulty, you should still see a reduced penalty for custom colonists and an increased child start colonist discount.

• v1.0 - Initial public release
  
• v1.1 - Update for Embark 0.707 - This should work the same as previously, except it keeps the changes made in Embark 0.7. Also, a new "NORM-99999" (Normal difficulty + 99,999 embark points) difficulty and a "Peaceful" difficulty was added to the embark difficulty selection.