Interstellar Highways
Adds 2 new buildings to Starbases, both of which increase the sublight speed of friendly ships by 70% each. This mod is designed to help fix the pain of waiting for your ships to traverse your empire in the mid-game, but at a (hopefully) reasonable cost so it doesn’t feel like cheating, and without completely erasing the strategy involved in stationing your fleets well.
The first building is the Hyperlane Transit Station, which requires the Ion Thrusters Technology, costs 250 alloys, and has an upkeep of 3 energy.
The second building, the Interstellar Highway Control, can only be built on starbases with a Hyperlane Transit Station. It is unlocked with the Plasma Thrusters Technology. It costs 250 alloys and has an upkeep of 5 energy, but provides the same speed boost.
With both buildings together you get 140% increased sublight speed, 8 energy upkeep, and 500 upfront alloy cost.
If the balance seems off to you please leave some feedback. I’ve tried to make the buildings reasonably costly to provide a close-to-vanilla experience without getting too expensive, but it’s quite hard to judge how much value the sublight speed gives you. I’m open to buffing or nerfing.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
