The Metals Refinery is an easy fix with the mod editor, but the UI icon is missing (and I'm not smart enough to extract it from the game files)

The Metals Refinery mod template is blank and causes the Metals Refinery to not show up.

Love the changes to church, but a question. Is there any chance taht this mod would affect tthe aging of the colonists? Got kids in masses and no colonists age

The mod was uploaded with all planned changes and with Paradox sponsor included. Thank you for your patience!

Thanks!

@Confused Fox ,
I'm working to revive the mod and I had to set it up twice before I found out that a non-replacer version is not viable. Unfortunately, I need to make use of the sponsor-specific buildings references - they are hidden and it's impossible for me to copy all of their properties in new instances.
The good news is that I managed to fix the bug with the Paradox sponsor.
Once I finish revising the sponsors and fixing all issues, I'll publish a new version.

Yes, that would we obtimal, thank you!

Sorry, I haven't opened the mod in quite some time after Paradox published a bazillion useless DLCs that broke it.
However, the Paradox sponsor was not removed intentionally, but because of a bug with the modding tools that didn't allow it to appear.

Are you suggesting that I duplicate all sponsors instead of replacing them, and simply allow the player to choose between modded and unmodded sponsor version?

Please make a non-replacer version. So we could
1) Still play as Pradox
2) Set non-nerfed sponsors for rivaled colonies.

This mod removes all base game sponsors including parafox which is somewhat annoying. If I turn it off I see the empty sponsor list untill I re-verify game files integrity.

If you don't have Space Race installed, it still gives you those sponsors, but they're kind of broken. I accidentally did that, and ended up with a Brazil which had no supply pods at all.

Thank you, @IkeFanboy64!
@Acar, sorry for failing to see your message and respond to it.

I have resaved and reuploaded the mod, hoping that will fix certain discrepancies with the latest changes done by DLCs etc.

However, I have to admit that I'm only familiar with the earlier state of the game from the time I worked on it as part of the Haemimont team.
I haven't played it with the recent additions, so I can't really estimate their scope and impact. I see that some "built-in" bonuses may have been removed (such as the 5 free pods), but I'll need to delve deeper into it and see what should I do to restore them or at least rebalance with other bonuses.

Until then, any feedback on missing features will be greatly appreciated!

I'm curious as to if this mod will ever be revisited or not. I think it's a great mod.

Hi, I started a new game with Brazil but my supply pods and passages aren't free as stated. And passages aren't instabuilt. It seems the bonuses aren't working. Is the mod outdated? :(

Please give it a go and tell me if it works with the new DLC.
It runs for me, but I did only a smoke test.
Also, I'm curious if it still works for users who don't have that new "content".

Yes :(

Eh, they broke it again, did they?

Could you update this? I love this mod.

♥
If people have fun with it, then it's totally worth it. Thank you again!

I love this mod and consider it essential. I want it to succeed.

Thanks again!
I have done the change and even played with India for an hour until I got a colonist born - no crash :)

@Gadina, Necro's problem with India seems to come from your "BirthThreshold" label modification of -100%. Since the Docs define "BirthThreshold" as the "Threshold of accumulated stat points to trigger birth of a new Colonist", by subtracting 100% you are essentially setting it at 0. If you want this value to be half as long, it should be -50%. That should double the birth rate as described in the mod. You should be able to do this with the editor real easily.

Hey, it seems that the India sponsor is causing a division by zero error when calculating births. This is fixed when I use the regular india sponsor so I am assuming its this mod causing it. This can be replicated by starting a new game and the game should freeze as soon as the first male and female become comfortable enough for birth. Thanks for the mod!

Point taken, description updated!

Oh, I totally understand that not being fixable. You should just note it in the description.

Most mods don't seem to actually require a new game to take effect, and when they do - which I expected with this one - they typically just do nothing. (Also, for us newbies here with a modding background on certain other games, the entire "new game" thing is not intuitive.)

I doubt this is fixable - it dramatically changes the experience with all sponsors except for Paradox.
It is intended that you start a new game with it.

Enabling this mod prevents my saved games from loading.

@Gadina, np - I have gotten a lot of help from the community myself. I always try to pass it on; feel free to do the same!

I've done it and I think it's working!
Thank you a lot for helping me revive the mod and apologies for taking so long to do it.

Damn, this is what I suspected as well - the new tourism thingie.
One day I should investigate a bit further since I don't know what changes those guys made in the systems of the game, but for now I'll see if I can fix it as you say.

Found it! The new game will load if you delete the Modify label Consts.FundingFromTourist +100% from Brazil. Changing it Consts.TouristFundingMultiplier +100% seems to work! Guessing it is the new tourist system in Tito that changed this constant. I have not tested it, but I also noticed the base id of the vanilla RC Driller and RC Harvester is not the same as in your mod, so they do not overwrite them. Everything appears to work however, from what I have seen so far. Just letting you know!

Of course! If you save me the detective work of trying to deduce what may be wrong after the new DLC, I'll gladly fix it.
And, wow, thanks for the compliment!

Galina, that is really disappointing as your mod is essential for gameplay. If I identify the problem, and give a solution, will you fix it?

That's okay bruh, I just thought a notice might be helpful. You don't have to be sorry for making a great mod.

I would love an update

I am sorry about it.
This is what happens with DLCs :/
One day I'll try to find time to repair it.

The DLC broke this mod recently. I very much enjoyed playing it though.

I like your attitude!

I crank it all to max right out of the box. Losing is FUN!

Sadly when I add this to my modlist I can no longer start a new game. It just goes to a black screen rather than the usual pick a sponsor etc.

You're very nice ♥

Yeah, I'm a balance freak and I needed to have some thematic chalenge with every sponsor and not only with 3 of them :D
Thanks, I'll take a look!

Reading your descriptions made me a little angry on the devs for not putting in the effort like you did. Amazing work!

Favorited, even though I haven't played in years and just got woken up by someone commenting on my own mod. I might give it a new try with his new collection (we are both in it, go figure)

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2392758273

Some of these still seem too easy, like Japan, Brazil, and the IMM

Thanks a lot!
If you (or somebody else) stumbles upon this again and I manage to find out what's wrong, I'll fix it :)

No problem, there are others sponsors to play. I would suggest that this is something like random event happened or maybe disabled terraforming caused this. I have no idea how to debug such thing, logs were clean as they could be :)

Thanks for your work, it's much more interesting than vanila gameplay

Sorry, I couldn't reproduce it... I have landed a passenger rocket and it didn't crash. I finished the first dome a little bit after the landing and built homes after that, but I don't think this is connected to the issue.

India modifies Birth threshold and non-Specialist work penalty - but these functions should be safe, they are used in the original game too. I have no idea what may have went wrong, sorry to disappoint you.

@Gadina, only x20-x10 speed mod, nothing changing units behaviour

@maximko - thanks, I'll try to check what may be causing this.
Do you have other mods enabled which change the gameplay or units?

Playing as India, crashes right after the first passenger rocket arrives

Honestly laughing at some of the titles of Sponsor bonuses

Looks great , if only I could get it to show up in my list of mods

Интересно!