X4: Foundations

X4: Foundations

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1 Apr, 2023 @ 11:29am
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Ring Space

Description
Inspired by The Expanse, this mod adds a new sector which contains 1373 gates, of which a few are connected to existing sectors in the galaxy.

Existing Gates

Where possible, connections between existing gates have been cut to "chunk" the galaxy according to faction ownership at game start. Some of these gates connections are routed to Ring Space instead.

New Gates

The above chunking does not result in "fair" distribution of gates giving access to Ring Space, so to remedy that some sectors have received additional gates that also connect to Ring Space.

Ring Space

The sector currently has a diameter of 1853.317km. Each gate is at least 50km apart from any neighbouring gate. There's no sunlight, no stars, planets or structures (would add a central station, but that's beyond my skills). The sector is not excluded from faction logic and can be taken over by AI. Like in The Expanse, it is a sector of very high economic value, where the value does not come from the contained resources (as there are none) but its central "location" in relation to the rest of the galaxy. This will of course also attract the Xenon.

Boron
A major part of the Kingdom End DLC is activating new gates. After extensive testing the plot never broke, however Boron ships will be in the galaxy even before finishing the plot.

Balance

Connecting usually far apart sectors by a now two-jump route is obviously throwing balance out the window. To make sure it is not too overpowered, the sector is huge, giving ships immense travel times to other gates. In addition to that, compared to Vanilla and all DLC, this is to my knowledge the only sector without any light, which makes self-sustaining stations impossible as no energy cells can be produced (unless you use my Fusion Reactor mod :).

Future Work

This mod is currently a work in progress, but all the basics are there. Gate positions are not final and learning new skills to add more features is ongoing.

Thanks

ColdRogue26 helped play test most aspects to make sure basic functionality, integration and usage of the sector work as expected. Thank you <3

Contributions

If you'd like to help develop this mod further, e.g. by contributing models, new sectors, music or just ideas, no matter how small they may seem, any help is appreciated. This is my first mod and I couldn't dive into every aspect of development, so fleshing this out more with help from contributors and fans of The Expanse can only make this mod better :)

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Lastly as a tiny note, there's also something in this for fans of the X3 Hub, as that was also one of the inspirations.
42 Comments
CTHULHU 5 Oct @ 1:37am 
Who else has a problem that using this mod, microfreezes occur?
Titan Nya 31 Jul @ 8:25pm 
So I gave it a try, no idea if it is hard coded into the mod or what not but I feel like cutting existing gate (especialy the main highway one) is weird... maybe use other inactive gate instead?
Having no sun is pitch black, I had a station being build by ennemy faction and wanted to attack the build storage to steal the ressources and couldn't see a thing so not great (maybe only an issue for me) so maybe have a low light instead (vanilla Oort Cloud is 2%) so solar are pretty much useless but could still see?
BlazingImp77151 27 Jul @ 3:41pm 
or at least the ones other than the one in sol? I'd like to know what changes the mod is going to have to a run.

Alternatively, could you have some form of image or description of which sectors were cut off?
BlazingImp77151 27 Jul @ 3:32pm 
could you add images of all the new sector connections?
Byter  [author] 12 Jul @ 11:00pm 
I do not know that mod. I simply change gate connections.
LAJ-47FC9 12 Jul @ 4:32pm 
Compat with X4:Re-emergence?
Redeye 43 25 Jun @ 11:22pm 
This thing is THE ultimate HQ sector. Awesome mod. Can't find the easter egg but oh well.
Mr. X WeregλrurumonX 29 Oct, 2023 @ 3:15pm 
When you activate this mid game the gates will seem like they're open but they're not connected to anything. Just a fair warning a lot of sectors you used to go to and they're pathing is now been changed.
Dan.llama 12 Oct, 2023 @ 11:33am 
Just finished the expanse, this is awesome! Cannot wait to use this in a new playthrough. Do you have any plans on creating a rocinante ship? I've been thinking about learning modding to try to make it
Acrazysane 4 Oct, 2023 @ 11:33am 
sounds amazing will be trying this out for sure :steamthumbsup: