[MOD] The Belt

[Linred]

Download link for steamworkshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=694492075&searchtext=the belt

Purpose: Add a classical sci-fi idea, that also makes sense from a sci-fi economical point of view: the mining of asteroids and all its related themes.

Inspiration: I developed this mod heaviliy inspired by the Expanse books and an assidious reading of Atomic Rockets


Features

• Adds the possibility to colonize asteroids (but no way to raise their habitability, it stays at 0%).
  
• Adds a new life support system building restricted to the asteroids that add habitability (80%).
  
• Added a range for asteroid size (between 5 and 7).
  
• Increased Ceres size in the pre-scripted solar system to 7.
  
• Added a planet bonus specific to asteroids (+25% mine tile yield, -30% building cost, -5% spaceships building cost, -25% ship building time and -25% spaceport module cost

• Added new events asteroid related
  • Growth of independent asteroid mining that can improve mining yield in asteroid colonies.
  • Possibility to focus on searching for certain types of asteroids, carbonaceous ones can be useful for further colonization effort, while metallic ones are more attractive for the industry.
    
  • Asteroid trajectory accident: accident can happen when you handle ten kilometers sized rocks, and it can have dire consequences.
  • Possibility to creation an orbit guard to monitor asteroids and prevent world ending scenarios.
    
  • Possible death of the population if the life support building is damaged.

Planned Features

• Teach the AI colonize asteroids
  
• City Visuals for Asteroids Colonies
  
• Political events and crisis regarding the rock-rats and their world ending powers.
  
• Closed ecological life support systems related events (price of air, corrupt governors, accident in the supply of critical elements for the colony...)

Compatibility
Incompatible mod files:

Spoiler: Incompatible files

• 00_on_actions
• 00_planet_classes
• 00_planet_modifiers
• prescripted_species_systems
• 00_tile_blockers

Artwork (thanks to JustV23 ; Kong Ken, Michael Oberschneider, SSI, TryingToFly, NASA and JPL-Caltech)

 

[gerishnakov]

Nice idea - I really enjoy The Expanse series - I think I tried to do something similar with Distant Worlds a couple of years ago!

 

[Das Blah]

I'd recommend some sort of isolation event, where ethics divergence goes up maybe a good 30-40%

 

[Linred]

I'd recommend some sort of isolation event, where ethics divergence goes up maybe a good 30-40%

Well, I did implement the independent mining event, but with only 10% ethic divergence which may arguably be a bit low. Thanks for the input !

 

[MelissaUK]

The Earthers have a home, it's time Belters had one too!

 

[poopchute]

It seems to me that the way Stellaris is based, one pop is roughly equal to 1 billion people. Having 7 billion people on one asteroid base seems a bit much. Too bad the system is not more granular, without perhaps extensive rebalancing.

 

[Linred]

It seems to me that the way Stellaris is based, one pop is roughly equal to 1 billion people. Having 7 billion people on one asteroid base seems a bit much. Too bad the system is not more granular, without perhaps extensive rebalancing.

Yes I agree, I thought about it, but just adding some abstract planet modifiers to represent the asteroid population would have been less fun.

 

[Fulltime]

There are way too many asteroids...

 

[wergy]

Add some more negative events as well

 

[MordachaiC]

All this talk about asteroid mining and no mention of Ben Bova...! *shakes head*

Nice idea for a mod, though!

 

[Linred]

Add some more negative events as well

There is the out of trajectory asteroid event already, but I am in the process of writing the political events !

There are way too many asteroids...

Well from a gameplay perspective, you do not have to settle them all and praise Paradox for the UI modification that allow us to see the colonizable planet size and type from the galaxy map.