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Cold Sea - Progression and Economy Tweaks

A small mod, intended for a vanilla plus experience, which attempts to address a few problems I have with Barotrauma's Economy and game Progression:
- Showing up to a military outpost to find they only stock 6 shotgun shells and 3 revolver rounds
- Expending 2000 marks worth of ammunition on a mission which only pays 2500m
- Spending the entire early game having too much money and nothing to spend it on as the traders don't sell anythign worthwhile
- Spending the entire early game not being able to do out-of-ship missions due to lack of ammo
- Having to fend off multiple crawlers with a diving knife despite having thousands of marks in the bank.

So how does Cold Sea try to remedy this?

1. Ammo for small arms
- Ammo stack size x5
- Ammo spawn probability +25%
- Ammo spawn amount x3
- Ammo price x0.5
- Minimum ammo available x3
- All ammo types sold by every vendor from the start of the game
- Fabrication times halved
- Fabrication amounts doubled.

These changes hope to make firefights more fun and less costly, as well as decreasing time spent waiting at the fabricator.

2. Missions
+25% rewards
+25% number of maximum enemies
+25% more missions

These changes aim to make missions both more rewarding and more challenging. The increase to enemy variance means that each mission is a gamble - will there be 2 hammerheads, or 6? 8 crawlers or 20? No matter what the rewards have been increased to opt towards faster progression and less grind.

3. Munitions
+ All ammo boxes are 50% cheaper
+ Number of boxes sold increased marginally
+ Vendors will stock no less than 3 ammo boxes
+ All ammo types are sold from the start of the game
+ Ammo depletion rate decreased

These changes to munitions counter the increased enemy count, meaning the crew will not be bleeding marks as they fight off swarms of enemies.

4. Instruments
I find the music on the accordion and guitar to be utterly soulless and grading.
+ Guitar tracks changed to 'He was a good stalker'
+ Accordion track changed to 'Drunken Sailor'