Extra Drone Slot

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Shiro_sama
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Extra Drone Slot

Postby Shiro_sama » Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:51 pm

A simple mod that alters every single player ship so that they have one more drone slot.

Why to use this mod

Pre-AE Drone Control was balanced around the fact you would always be able to install it if you want, along with any other systems. Having 2 drone slots (on ships not starting with DC) provides enough functionality, makes buying a good thing.
Then, AE came. Now systems don't just work together - they compete. And Drone Control, while not that bad to have, doesn't offer too much sadly. Usually one slot is used by guaranteed Defense Drone 1 and the other doesn't come into play often, thus total utility of DC isn't enough to give an edge over Mind Control (which can do different things without spending drone part) or Cloaking (which does one job but is superb at it). Not to mention Hacking...

By having extra drone slot, you gain access to additional variety. 3 slots allow to have DD1 and still have slots for interesting options. Lucky ships that had 3 slots already now will have 4 and this surely opens even more interesting strategies. Hopefully this will allow you to choose Drone Control more often, knowing you can use more of drones' potential.

UI issues
Unfortunately, game's UI cannot be easily changed. If you have this mod, with Drone Control and maximum systems last drone slot will partially overlap with piloting/sensors bars. Don't worry, those subsystems are not interactable anyway and this last drone slots work just fine (can be controlled properly), so it's only visual clutter.
Another small issue is that there is no hotkey for 4th drone, you'll have to use mouse.

Mod compatibility
Should work with any mods (including those adding more ships), provided it is installed after them. Modded ships that have 4 drone slots are changed to have 5, and ships that have 1 (if any) are changed to have 2.

Download
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWTfwp ... sp=sharing

Thanks
To people in Discord's modding channel, they help people.
And to those who try out mods, too.