Starbases Suck Less
Look, everyone knows starbases suck in Stellaris. That’s why there are like 50 different mods with names like "Better Starbases" or "Starbases Expanded" or "Starbases Are Now Able to Suck Your D*ck" or whatever.
So why use this one over any of those other mods? Mostly, you’ll probably prefer this one if you want a minimalist, vanilla-balanced version of "making starbases suck less" — i.e., no weird added modules, no starbases with 20 building slots and no assumption that you’re also using Gigastructures or ACoT or something. This is intended to be a standalone mod to address vanilla starbase balance issues that you can slot in alongside other mods, or not.
More specifically:
* No defense platforms. They suck and nobody ever liked them anyway. Instead, get access to ion cannons a little earlier (unlock w/ citadels) and faster build time on ion cannons.
* Defense modules (guns/torpedos/strike craft) are better and give more defense platform slots, so you can build an extra ion cannon for every 2 defense modules you have.
* Unyielding tradition and Eternal Vigilance AP have been buffed to (try to) make them a viable alternative to Supremacy and offensive APs for turtling empires.
* You get extra starbase slots a little faster than vanilla, based on pop/system size.
Compatibility/FAQ:
* Not compatible with anything else that alters starbase entries in ship_sizes, the Unyielding tradition, the Eternal Vigilance AP, or the tech entries for citadels & titans. That being said, if some other mod does overwrite these entries, it shouldn’t break anything else — you’ll just get their values instead of mine.
* I won’t make compatibility patches for anything I don’t use, but you can — I don’t care if you use this as the basis for whatever you want.
"But what if I *did* want starbases with 20 building slots?"
If this starbase mod doesn’t do it for you for whatever reason, check out any or all of the following:
* Better Starbases: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1656340394
* Expanded Starbases: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1359700418
* Stardock: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2809122034
* Stronger defense platforms: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1990711293
Thanks to all of the above for being able to see what variables they edited/how they changed things.
Feel free to leave balance suggestions below.
