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Ω Merchant Raiders Expanded - Addon for Merchant Raiders and SirCampalots Extended Tech Tree Mod.

The merchant raiders have significantly expanded their operations! They now occupy a much larger area, have much more patrols and now have not one, but at least 5 merchant raider bases from which they operate.
They now also have a supersized main base which is much more heavily defended.

This mod significantly increases the amount of merchant raiders and merchant raider bases in each star system. The explorable star system has been significantly increased in size. 5 extra Merchant Raider bases are added, one of which will be a cluster of multiple bases with significantly more enemies and defenses protecting it.


This mod needs both Merchant Raiders and Extended Tech Tree Mod and will not function properly without them.
You can get Merchant Raiders here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3093774017
You can get Extended Tech Tree Mod here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2946411143
Please make sure to keep both these prerequisite mods up to date.



When this addon is active, any new star systems visited will have not one merchant raider base, but 6 or 7 merchant raider bases. One of these bases will be an entire cluster of bases with more defenses and ships defening the main base(s). In the starter system the extra fortified base will be barely stronger than the regular merchant raider bases, but this will change as you enter higher tier star systems. These fortified merchant raider base clusters will also have increased mission reward, but the merchant raider bases and ships will also have increased drops for rare materials as merchant raiders like to hoard their looted stuff.

Once their location is known, the additional merchant raider bases will have a map icon of a skull with 2 bones, just like the merchant raider base in the base mod. The larger merchant raider base will have a larger icon of a skull with 2 bones and an eye patch to accentuate it being a bit more scary base to attack than the other merchant raider bases.

Also the amount of merchant raider ship missions will be increased from up to 10 to about 30. I will probably be implementing more diverse mission types in the near future as I find I enjoy working on this mod quite a lot actually. For now, the merchant raiders will be hiding in the vast expanses of outer space to better hide from the main faction military.

Some of the merchant raiders will use a temporary storage in their patrol area where they will temporarily store their loot before taking it all back to their main base.
Since there are overall fewer merchants to raid the farther out you go and their main base will tend to be closer to their partol area, the chance of a pirate lootbox being present will also be lower compared to patrol areas closer to the center of the star system.
The size (and value) of the pirate lootboxes will gradually increase as you move to higher tier star systems.



All of the added ships and missions will be located well outside of the main asteroid belt.



If you are already using Merchant Raiders, you can simply activate this addon and visit a new star system to see if you like it. This addon can always be disabled again to leave just the basic merchant raiders and their one base.


I originally had wanted to include this extended version of Merchant Raiders with the base mod, but I ended up chosing not to increase the star system size as I had some reservations about it. By adding the increased star system size as an addon, people can choose for themselves to enable or disable this addon as they please. By splitting the mod up into a base mod and this addon, anyone using the Merchant Raiders mod get increased flexibility in how they want the merchant raiders to be implemented (and I don't need to make multiple versions of the same mod to tailor to player specific requests).










Legal stuff: I do not give permission to anyone to reupload or modify my mods without asking for permission from me first.