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Yolo Riftborn Tweaks
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TYPE: Extension
CONTENT: Gameplay, MajorFactions
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Yolo Riftborn Tweaks

Description
This Mod is best paired with and loaded after Excellent Space 2

It attempts to make Riftborn Gameplay more interesting and less clunky than they are by default. There are many minor changes but here are the most important ones:

Riftborn Population are now fixed in their cost and very cheap in terms of production costs. They do however cost a lot of manpower and strategic resources now. This means that Riftborn can now not only colonize but also develop a distant system in a near instant, provided they have the resources to do so.

For most of the game however, they don't, which makes them more reliant on their foreign population for the early game instead. Another incentive to play a hybrid empire of biological- and artificial life are the changes to the Biophobic trait. It used to give happiness on sterile for all empire citizen. Now only the empires main population is affected, while most other types of population still prefer fertile planets. Planet capacities for population have also been adjusted so that advanced terraformation past the desert and arctic are now worth it.
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mdel 25 Apr @ 7:57am 
Great stuff!
CapitaineYolo  [author] 25 Apr @ 5:38am 
@Neru yes, but despite seeing both versions each empire can actually only build one. if I wanted to make the alternate version invisible in the tech tree I would have to make a separate version of that tech for riftborn only.
Neru 24 Apr @ 7:37am 
One immediate issue I found is that the early empire tech Planetary Landscaping gives you two variants of Intensive Cultivation, the regular one and one labeled as (Riftborn), at the same time. I was playing Unfallen and using Excellent Space 2.
Neru 24 Apr @ 5:39am 
Thanks for the replies. Sounds great and I'll try it out. Having incentives for both playstyles is good to have
CapitaineYolo  [author] 24 Apr @ 4:09am 
@Neru I haven't gotten to playtest a lot so I don't know how the AI handles the changes. however since riftborn start with access to both t1 strategics they should be fine. The idea of making them reliant on foreign pops came from their questline which basically gives you the choice of being friendly with- and accepting of biological life or going terminator mode. The problem though was that in vanilla there really is no incentive to actively use foreign pops. With these changes the incentives are: filling your systems faster, better happiness on non-sterile planets, the ability to use the food resource and gaining some passive manpower from that.
CapitaineYolo  [author] 24 Apr @ 4:09am 
You'll still be able to produce manpower faster by - well - producing it directly, but the conversion of production to manpower is less efficient than food to manpower. However if you happen to spawn with lots of strategic resources and/or fully sterile systems nearby you might just decide to produce all your manpower and go full machine mode.
CapitaineYolo  [author] 24 Apr @ 4:09am 
The question of how biological manpower can be converted into artificial one is a good one, but you got the same problem in vanilla right? I doubt riftborn military ships are compatible with biological life yet you can still use manpower earned from growth/minor civs or via diplomacy to fill their fleets all the same. In the end it is a matter of mechanics serving gameplay over immersion as you said ^^
Neru 23 Apr @ 3:31pm 
Also, does the AI know how to handle this change or does it just get stuck at zero manpower and strategics forever?
Neru 23 Apr @ 3:29pm 
Interesting concept and making Biophobic affect only the Riftborn makes sense, but making the Riftborn more reliant on foreign pops seems to go against their dislike of natural life. How exactly does this mod make them less clunky to play? How is manpower provided by foreign pops "converted" into more Riftborn shells? I suppose some level of abstraction is fine if it serves better gameplay to some extent.
CapitaineYolo  [author] 23 Apr @ 1:42am 
Thanks to you :)