FTL modding

[Silverfish42]

Does anyone know if it's possible to change some of the attributes of FTL drives, possibly mixing them to make new ones. I can't seem to locate anything in the system files dealing with their function though, so I'm wondering if it's hardcoded.

For the moment, I was wanting to try and make Warp usable inside of a gravity well, and remove the border restriction from jump drives. Mostly to see if I could do so, for now.

 

[Foraven]

It's in part in 00_defines.lua (in common/defines), other part in physics research (common/technology/00_phys_tech.txt) and another in the actual module you put on ships (common/component_templates/00_utilities_drives.txt). Those files contain all you need to tweak each FTLs.

 

[Silverfish42]

So, looking through there as closely as I can, this does in fact look like it is impossible to change how FTL drives work, except for tweaking FTL speed and windup/cooldown speeds.

 

[Foraven]

So, looking through there as closely as I can, this does in fact look like it is impossible to change how FTL drives work, except for tweaking FTL speed and windup/cooldown speeds.

What did you have in mind? As far as i can tell we can tweak existing FTL but can't change how they work. There is hope that eventually we will be able to do more, but a lot of the game code remain hard-coded for now.

 

[Silverfish42]

Yeah, just going to have to wait for more things to be moved into the moddable sections of the game. I was wanting to see if I could make warp usable in system gravity wells, and remove the border restriction from jump and psi-jump drives.

 

[Xionanx]

I was looking to do something similar. I wanted to:

1. Make Warp FTL capable of jumping from anywhere in the system
2. Make "Gate" FTL require your ships be within a certain distance of the sending gate (or system edge in the case of returning to a gate)
3. Make "Hyper Lane" FTL require you leave the system in the direction you are going.

Sadly, you can do none of the above...

 

[ImpalerWrG]

If enough is exposed whole new types of FTL could be created too. StarGates that operate like the movie/series (a station needed at both ends) or a more classic wormholes which are permanent and bi-directional.