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Bail and Board

Full In-Game Settings Menu:
Tweak every single feature to your exact preference. Find it under Settings -> Extensions -> Bail and Board Settings.

Three Unique Bailing Formulas:
Choose your preferred style of surrender, from the balanced vanilla to the skill-focused "Veteran's Resolve" or the dynamic "Panic vs. Morale".

Granular Bailing Control:
Adjust bail timers, bonus chances on failed attempts, crew bail group sizes, and apply difficulty modifiers for different ship types.

Meaningful Boarding Consequences:
Piracy is now a crime! Boarding operations apply reputation penalties and alert local police, with multipliers fully adjustable in the menu.

Dynamic Boarding Combat:
The internal fight is no longer just a numbers game. Enable critical hits for both attackers and defenders, where high-skill marines have a chance to deal triple damage.

Enhanced Boarding Mechanics:
Enable "Pod Frying" where high shields pose a real threat to incoming pods, making veteran marines more valuable. Adjust the speed of the hull-cutting phase to your liking.

Improved Player Feedback:
Get on-screen notifications for hull cutting progress, failed bail attempts, and when boarding pods are fried by enemy shields.

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Take control of when and how enemy ships surrender.

Three Bail Chance Formulas:

Formula 1: Vanilla – The standard Egosoft formula. A balanced approach where pilot skill, ship size, and health are all factors.

Formula 2: Veteran's Resolve (Quadratic) – Skill matters immensely. Rookies bail easily, but high-skill veterans are extremely resolute, making them very difficult to dislodge.

Formula 3: Panic vs. Morale – A dynamic battle between panic (hull damage) and nerve (morale). High-morale pilots endure punishment, but even they break when the ship is near destruction.


Fine-Tune Your Bailing Experience:

Difficulty Divisors: Separate settings for Capital ships, Xenon ships, and ships attacked by AI fleets.
Adjustable Timers: Control cooldowns between bail checks for S/M and L/XL ships.
Bonus Chance on Fail: Add a stacking bonus to the bail chance with every failed attempt. Resets on success.
Captain Scuttle: Captains may damage their ship/components as a final act of defiance.
Notifications: Choose whether notifications stay on screen whilst your waiting for that adjustable timer for bailing

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Turn boarding into a tactical and consequential operation.

Real Reputation Penalties:

Boarding Started: Optional penalty the moment you commit. Alerts local police.
Boarding Successful: Major crime! Penalty equivalent to destroying the ship. Configurable from 0x (none) to 4x (severe).


Tactical Combat & Risks:

Pod Frying: Boarding pods can be destroyed by shield energy. Chance decreases with marine skill.
Critical Hits: High-skill marines can deal triple damage during combat.
Hull Cutting Control: Adjust infiltration speed. Receive notifications at progress thresholds (10%, 20%, 50%, etc.).

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All features are configurable via the in-game Extensions Options menu.
Go to Settings -> Extensions -> Bail and Board Settings to customize your experience.

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Script-only XML patching mod. Safe to add to an existing save.
Compatible with mods that do not alter boarding.xml or PlayerOwnedShipAttacks in notifications.xml.
Not recommended alongside other bailing/boarding overhauls (likely conflicts).