its easier on smaller mods.

i will test it when i continue the multiplayer game and will keep you updated, btw also its amazing how fast you respond here

thank you, i put some thought into keeping it balanced. i did a quick testgame and the AI had no issue expanding in my game. I switched up a few code lines and now the AI cant even see the mod's content. it if is now still broken by this mod, i would like a full modlist to recreate this.

yes i am sure it comes from this mod but the moment i removed it they started to expand again, i'm also playing on version 4.1.3 i also opend up the files and tried to read them out but i am also at a loss why that happens as you said already they ai should not use it in any manner but it definitely happend over all i must say tho i do like this mod and the alternatives to this are not really mine either as atleast you keep the station upkeep with new stations so it seems to be balanced aswell

thank you for telling me. i am baffled as to how that can be. since this does not interact with the AI, the AI litteraly cant do what this mod adds. I just tested and the mod works without issue on the most recent game version. it might be different mod or you are confusing this mod with the alternate version?

at current time it prevents every ai empire from expanding

Some does construct, some doesn't.
It would be cool if we could place them just in space.

the starbase just doesnt construct

i dont know, but this should work in 4.0 i will get around to updating most of my mods this weekend

I'm wondering if this affects the new defense star base origin?

This is unholy and I love it

if that is how you and other feel then i will leave it, as players alwwys can choose not to do something.

The 1 copy of a buff makes sense. It handles defensive aura buildings the same way, where you can only have 1 per grav well. As to blocking over hab worlds, id rather you not, as I know a lot of people use mods that increase the starbase size ( myself included ) and those dont tend to touch orbital rings, making the starbase the better option, especially in fortifying a system. Leave as is, so that there is a choice between the two, not a forced option :)

a lot of the star base buffs apply to the system and if you have Buff1 come from two sources the game will only count it one time. it would blow the scope of this mod out of orbit if i changed all of that.

yes, the game treats these like orbital rings, thats because orbital rings are space stations, also nothing i can do about that, aside from blocking the construction of these starbases around habitable worlds. I might add that over easter, just to reduce these edge cases.

that the bonus to reduce upgrade cost is not applied is suprising to me, since after building them they are just like any other space station, it must be that the primary station that gives controll of a system is treated slightly different still.

this mod should work in EVERY stellaris version that has megastructures and star bases, as long as neither system is too far changed.

thanks for the feedback, it is very hard to testplay for so many cases, as this game is so complex by now.

Can confirm that the Zroni Storm Caster only fires from the main starbase

I have been messing around and found some sort of soft limitation aside from starbase limit. The game sees these starbases as orbital rings and so following those rules, only 1 starbase per major and minor celestial body (counts asteroids as well). Also DO NOT build a starbase around a colonized plant or a planet you want to colonize, else you can never build an orbital ring around said planet because the starbase is the orbital ring.
Some misc: Stacking multiple Cybrex mining drills that boosts mining station output in a single system does not stack. Have not tried it with the Zroni storm caster yet.
The Eternal vigilance perk and edict that builds defense platforms for free every 6 months does not apply to starbases built via the megastructure list. you have to build them manually. Also the -50% starbase upgrade cost buff from the Unyielding tree does not apply to these starbases either.
Aside from these, the mod is working fantastically, even on the 3.99 phoenix beta.

SYSTEM FORTIFICATION COMPLEX THE SECOND COMING WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Thank you Author, many kisses

no, this will not break any saves. i gurantee it. the only option how it could, would be the most bizzard cross interaction with another mod that does a highgly specific change to the starbase outpost. but i wouldnt imagigne any mod having that.

@Flemmi hey i want to know if he will not brock my USE play ground save when i subscribe

than its perfectly compatible

i believe NSC3 just adds 2 new tiers to the stations aswell as new constructions relating to them

i havent tested that, but the way this mod was build, as long as space stations arent too drastically changed this mod will work. if it doesnt, i will make it compatible.

hey would this mod be compatible with NSC3?

That seems to have fixed it, no issues building extra Outposts in the last few sessions. thank you :)

I changed the check slightly, now the starbase number is counted accuratly and maybe this new way of counting fixes the issue. effectily it means you can build 1 less.

So it does work how I though it is supposed to. Strange behavior indeed.

if you have a cap of 9, it matters not if you have 6/9 or 10/9 just the 9 is important, then you can have 9 starbases in one system, you can have 9 starbases in every system even upgrade all of them. why it disables this for you temporarily, i cannot tell.

The loss of placement happens for all systems though, not just the one that may be capping out. It wont let me build them anywhere for a moment. Does Starbase Capacity denote how many I can build in an individual system? As when I've lost the capability, I only had 3 in a system, with a cap of I think 9

@Doviena
The Amount of Starbases you can build in one system is limited by your overall starbase capacity, so if you can have three lvl two Starbases then you can have three starbases in your system.

And now its gone again? Does it have something required beyond the alloy cost it shows?

And the capability randomly came back......confusing XD

No idea what happened, but it suddenly stopped working in the middle of construction queue, and suddenly cannot build them anymore

Hey, @Xadidon, try out this mod and you can build outpost in colonized system https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2809684890

i could do that at first, but i think after researching the dyson swarm i couldnt do that any longer, this also occured after i researched the archive and placed it in the other game

I wish i knew how this happend. The game has 2 modes for megastructures, either they are bound to a planet or star or they are freely placeable, but all freely placeables have to be at the edge of the system, like hyper relays or gateways. I wish i could help more.

thats the point, i cant do that in colonized systems

you have to build them around planets.

Can`t build outposts in colonized system, it says that "This megastructure cannot be built in space" (I play with mods)

sadly, i could not get the AI to build multiple ones. It might be possible since they do build megastructures, but maybe it is just very low priority for them.

Do AI build multiple base too?

Now I can build up absolutely my entire mother system with defense stations

well nice mod for anyone want to make the the whole system become impenetrable, 1 like and favorite