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Xenon Quality

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Ram's X4 Mods
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Xenon Embiggener
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Description
Substantially buffs Xenon ships and economy with the intent to bring them closer to the fearsome Xenon of lore while providing a more challenging adversary for the player.

Originally posted by Codex Astartes:
Xenon are self-replicating mechanical minds capable of making themselves even more intelligent, and then again and again, recursively forever. They are a plague so dangerous, a threat so grave, that it spread throughout the infinity of space and eternity of time almost effortlessly to infest the stars.

All Xenon ships:
  • Double shield strength, shield regeneration, hull and surface element hitpoints.
  • Refer to the images for a comparison of big boy ships.

Xenon SE:
  • Hull only costs 1 energy cell. Xenon hulls are already very cheap, so it's just an extra measure to reduce death spiralling. Equipment is normal price.
  • Double cargo capacity
  • Mining laser has 1km more range and ~65% higher mining damage multiplier.
  • Custom ship modification by default: hazard region immunity, -50% mass, -25% drag, +100% radar range, -95% radar signature. The enormous radar signature reduction should greatly increase its survivability.

Other mods like Xenon AI Miners may also help the SE's suicide problems.

Xenon Solar Panel:
  • Module builds in 1 minute.
  • Module only costs 1 energy cell to avoid death spiral from SE killing themselves. Like the Xenon ship hulls, its original price is already very cheap compared to other factions.

This probably makes the capturable Xenon ships overpowered for player usage, but it also makes them more of a useful prize. If it's too easy to use them, just don't.

If you are brave, consider this pairing:
Xenon Embiggener
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(Secondlt2) 26 Sep @ 5:52am 
There might also be a side-effect to the mod that causes the Xenon to 'assault' sectors more frequently (which is the part that I really enjoy) and while their ships seemingly never run out (a part I also enjoy but find difficult to cope with)
(Secondlt2) 26 Sep @ 5:32am 
If possible I'd like to have a version where the Xenon's strength is in its numbers rather than double-regens and stats.

I enjoy the changes to the SE and the Solar Panels but I'd like to have a little bit more different as mentioned above. I'd make these changes myself but I don't know how to mod this game and I enjoy this mod of yours quite a lot
Ram  [author] 26 Sep @ 5:00am 
@(Secondlt2):
No, all of my mods are listed in the collection. You only want the changes to the SE and Solar Panels?
(Secondlt2) 26 Sep @ 4:07am 
Is there a version of this mod that keeps the cost change and makes it easier for the xenon to mass-produce without the ship buffs?
Ram  [author] 21 Sep @ 2:23pm 
@Dylan:
Only this mod or the whole collection? Most Xenon buffing mods will be too strong for the NPC factions because they are also too weak. It is an inherent problem of the game due to their weak economy, hard limits on their ships, and poor AI. Plus, the game engine struggles to support even this relatively small scale.

Vanilla X4 is designed as an easy and stable sandbox for the player to rule over as a god. In contrast, this mod is intended to break up the static sandbox by giving the player an oppressive foe to struggle against from the beginning. If you prefer a gradual scaling difficulty, use Xenon Evolution instead and configure it to your preference.
Dylan 21 Sep @ 4:45am 
Might be too much, a single K destroyer soloed most of argon space while I frantically tried to set my economy up to help.
posthum 14 Sep @ 5:33am 
A quick headsup, that ARG vs XEN event in Nopileos' Memorial does not go in favor of Argon with this mod and you'll have to clean up what's left of the Xenon yourself.
Medina 30 Aug @ 8:37am 
This is good. After update 7.0. Xenon is a joke now.
This mod will put Xenon back to it feet.
Ram  [author] 27 Jul @ 12:38pm 
It is possible to do it, but I don't plan to add VRO compatibility.
Glanzschurke 26 Jul @ 11:47am 
can you theoreticly mace a patch version for VRO?
Otherwise i like this mod. Finaly it gives me a proper chalange...because Xenon Hell dose not work animore