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Research Blueprints Mod
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Research Blueprints Mod

Description
Research Blueprints
Tired of playing the "good guy" with other factions to improve relation and unlock the possibility to buy blueprints? Tired of farming credits to be able to actually buy the blueprints from other factions? Check this mod out!

This mod adds an option to research blueprints using the usual research system. Initiated by talking to the manager in player HQ. You need to have research unlocked already. Calling the manager from afar also possible.

The mod generally seems to not work in a new game until you save it and load the save.

Reported incompatibilities with other mods
  • Classic Mode: while running these mods together won't break your game, some blueprint research (for expensive stuff like ship fabs and XL ships) won't work as expected since classic mode increases prices of modules/ships/equipment by a factor around 1000 and this mod selects the needed amount of resources for research based exactly on this price. So trying to research a blueprint which normally costs over 1b at faction representative will give you a comparably cheap research and will feel like a cheat to you.
  • FOCW Corporations REVISED: It seems to disable "extended conversations" mod, which this mod also uses if it is installed, if you have both of these you won't see the conversation menu for this mod. Don't know what happens if you have this + FOCWCR but no extended conversations. -> FOCWCR fixed it in V 2.5
  • Player Restock Subordinates seems to break extended conversations mod as well thus this wont show up either -> Reported workaround is to initiate coms to get access to the conversation options.
  • SWI: Saving, unsubbing/untoggling, reloading, saving, and resubbing/retoggling seems to help
  • Free Research No Cost No Time: does not work.
  • reverse engineering or the equipment modification redone (some report no problems though)
Known Issues
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201 Comments
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FinaL 18 Aug @ 11:12am 
no, the only mod I had was reverse engineering.

I now just cheated myself all the blueprints... in the next run, I will delete reverse engineering and try again. But for now I'm content haha ^^' thank you anyways :) great mod!
Andro  [author] 18 Aug @ 10:57am 
are you using unlock all research mod or some other related mod?
FinaL 17 Aug @ 4:14am 
hmmm, I have a bug that gives me a lot of "Blueprint: Weapon"... etc research option even before I contacted my Manager. I broke something, right ?
Andro  [author] 10 Aug @ 8:55am 
Yeah might be that xenon is available, I don't remember anymore if it should or shouldn't by default.
Virkful 9 Aug @ 9:51pm 
@Quantum Projects
1. I was incorrect, deleted the previous message and am sorry for misinformation.
2. Mod will start functioning after you load a save.
3. The author is correct, research projects are dynamic and will work with other mod's contents if it runs in general categories. (Uncertain if it'll work if ship's tag is outside the original factions)
4. Xenon tech can be researched. (Might be due to other mod's enabling this mod to roll the researches in, I got like over 70 mods on so am uncertain)
Andro  [author] 9 Aug @ 12:51pm 
Research projects are added dynamically, so it should work if the ships added by the other mod were added correctly (don't know how to explain what correctly is here), so just try it, the chances are high.

No, xenon is not available afairc
Quantum Projects 9 Aug @ 11:04am 
@Virkful, considering your answer, am I correctly assuming that SVE ships are not available through research using this mod?
Quantum Projects 8 Aug @ 8:33pm 
Hi, I have two questions:

1. Does this mod add research projects dynamically (so that if another ship chassis is added through a mod, for instance, this mod will create a research project for it?).

2. Does this mod enable us to research Xenon tech?
Chroma Hydra (They/Them)🏳️‍⚧️🐉θΔ 29 Jun @ 11:31am 
bear in mind this lets you get things like boron parts before the boron have even been opened to the galaxy.
Virkful 29 Jun @ 9:02am 
@Andro I don't think the price is high, but the amount of other resources you have to gather becomes a burdensome step, which it might be even more convenient to just buy the bp with original price, which challenges the meaning of this mod, but then, it's not for me to judge but for me to opinion to sway the consideration.
As said, claytronics and hull parts are fully short all the time within the circle, whilst there are other abundant resources such as food / meds / and energy cell.

@DamnedCaptnBlue within "steamapps\common\X4 Foundations\extensions", some mods needs extraction if it's zipped as .cat files, and you'll need to download XRCatToolGUI from the official website.