mod: Etherpod.ShipEnhancements

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mod: Etherpod.ShipEnhancements

Adds way too much stuff for the ship in the mod settings. (by @Etherpod)

https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/shipenhancements/

[profucius]

Should've called the mod Ship Dehancements!

[Etherpod]

Sometimes it takes dehancing the ship to enhance the experience XD

[SpatialXX]

Incredible mod with neat, funny and great additions, all while keeping the game aesthetics.

In my test, custom lights color of the "thematic kind" like Heartian Orange or Nomanian-Blue were plain white, but others colors worked well. I dont know if this is a bug from others mods or not.

"Manual Scout Recall" could use some clarifications, the scout can only be first launched from the ship, despite the model on the player hand still showing the scout. A simple text saying to the player that the scout is currently not in his possession and he must retrive it by launching it from the ship could help.

Also if you were to expand the mod, it could be cool to be have a weight system option, were the more you remove gadgets/tools/fuel/oxygen to your ship (like many of the options you currently got), the lighter the ship get, resulting in an increase of the ship speed. You could incite players to either make their ships worse to get better acceleartion, or overly equipped and ultra resistant but barely able to takeoff.

Such system could also beneficiate from a workshop, a place on or near the launchpad were you are able to add and remove the ship functions while in game (as opposed of while on a menu and with a loop restart)

Anyway keep the good work

[Etherpod]

Thank you for the review!

I'm not sure what's going on with the Manual Scout Recall. If the scout model is in your launcher you should be able to launch it, it's only supposed to stop you from recalling the scout so that you need to go over and pick it up. Maybe another mod is messing it up?
If you recall the scout with the ship you need to manually grab it from on top of the ship where its scout launcher is attached because your handheld one can't recall it from the ship (I'm not sure if this should be included to maintain consistency, it makes it more complicated and it's a little annoying).

I just tested those two lighting colors and they are in fact both plain white, mainly due to the fact that the colors in code were written without a dash ("Hearthian Orange") and the colors in the settings were written with one ("Hearthian-Orange"). Should be fixed in the next update, thanks for pointing that out!

The weight mechanic is really cool, I never considered doing that. In the mod's current state I don't know how well I could implement it since a lot of the options don't actually "remove" things (they just disable them), but I'll keep it in mind.

A workshop on the landing pad would also be super cool, but that would probably require a custom menu which I don't really know how to implement. Maybe in the future I'll try adding it or I'll find some workaround for it.

Thanks again for the feedback!

[ObiWanPEZ]

"Disable Lock-On". I don't see a difference... ;)

[Etherpod]

It should make it so that you can’t lock onto other planets/objects (the thing you do to use autopilot). Is it not working?

[Owen013]

Absolute dynamite

[Zyphiria]

Suggest adding a ship speed multiplier to the project!! Love the mod ❤

[Etherpod]

I considered adding it but decided not to, mainly because increased thruster speed is a feature of most cheat mods already. You can also lower the ship speed already by using the thrust modulator or by using the smooth thrust option in General Enhancements.

[Sabo-X4]

I love this mod so much. Now all we need is suit enhancements :3

[SpatialXX]

Glad to see more updates to this mod, so time for way to many suggestions

Keep Ship Lights On : An option to keep the ship lights on while the player is outside. It's quite frustrating to get out thinking an area is lit, only to end up in total darkness.

Add Clock Gauge : An option to have a small clock gauge in the ship that keeps track of the time. The clock would represent the day/night cycle of timber hearth, and it would be synced with it. Each passing day would add to a small cadran, the loop ending on the 3rd day.

Add Gravity Reader : An option to have in the cockpit a screen reading out in which directions and how much the ship is attracted by gravity of other bodies. This suggestion is probably hard to code and not that useful.

Add Portable Flag : An option to have a portable flag of the Outer Wilds progam inside the ship as an item. I always wanted to do some flag planting in hard to reach or unexplored places, yet was never able to. Also bonus point if we can select, or even change the flag design.

Add Emergency Seeds : An option to have a seed bag / plant pot inside the ship as an item. Placed on ground it would grow up instantly, giving oxygen in a small radius.

Add Portable Fuel Canister : An option to have a portable fuel canister in the ship as an item. The canister could be placed on ground, were the player can then consume it once, depleting the canister.. Maybe for balance reasons make launching the scout while carrying it impossible like with the DLC artifacts.

Add Sap Wine Bottle : An option to have a famous hearthian bevrage inside the ship as an item, and being able to consume it. Effects could range from changing ship color to rainbow or divine, increase the ship input latency, disable seat belts, activate the big heads mode, dizziness and kazoo music.

Tether Hook Scout : Have the possibilty to attach your scout to your scout launcher with a tether hook, and unlock your inner spider man. Also useful if you have the option to not being able to recall it.

Move along tether : I've seen that we can walk on tethers if two tether hooks are on the same body, but it would be great if we could attach ourself to an existing tether and move along it, like some sort of mountain climber.

Tether Hook Achivement : I've not yet seen all the mod achivements, but I don't think there is one yet for tethering satellites from outer space back at home. (still haven't been able to bring a nomai shuttle).

Also only bug i've seen, being attached to a tether hook at Brittle Hollow's quantum knowledge tower will result in... a quite violent crêpe.

[Etherpod]

Thanks for leaving even more suggestions! I'm not sure if development will continue, but some of these sound great.

Keep Ship Lights On : I'll just expand this to cover the entire electrical system so that everything stays on when you leave. I'll definitely add this if I do another update

Add Clock Gauge : This sounds really cool and I think it would fit in with the ship nicely. I'm not sure how much use it would be in custom solar systems, but it's a nice touch anyways. I might add this depending on how difficult the modeling for it is

Add Gravity Reader : Probably not that difficult to get the different forces but I think it would be very hard to display it in the ship, and I'm not sure how helpful it would be anyways XD

Add Portable Flag : Sounds like an awesome idea, and it even works as a navigational marker. Sounds relatively easy so I'll probably add it

Add Emergency Seeds : I was thinking about a portable plant that you could bring with you, but this is way cooler and allows for a limited amount. Will probably include in another update if it happens

Add Portable Fuel Canister : To add onto this, it could have a remaining fuel display and it could function similarly to transferring fuel to the ship where you need to hold the refuel button; that way it can't be wasted by accidentally using your one refuel when you have 99% fuel left. Cool idea, I might add it

Add Sap Wine Bottle : Funny idea, I could see this being used for an achievement ("Drunk Driving"), but since it doesn't have many other practical uses I don't think it's worth it. Will probably not add

Tether Hook Scout : Really fun idea, but since the tethers were already a nightmare to get working in multiplayer I don't think I'm going to add this one. I might look into it someday

Move along tether : This would be amazing. I would have to figure out how to do it first and how difficult it would be (especially with multiplayer), so I don't know if I'll add it yet. I'm not sure why I didn't think about this when I spent an hour messing around with making tether lines from the ground to the launch tower XD

Tether Hook Achievement : Sadly, there is not an achievement for the tether. Towing the Deep Space Satellite back home sounds fun though, and after testing it I can say it's pretty easy. I'll add this if I feel like making more artwork for it

I had forgotten about that bug, I don't feel like fixing it though so I'll just add it to the Known Bugs section.

If you have any more feel free to leave them here, I really appreciate the ideas. There's also a thread for this mod in the Discord modding server if you don't feel like making GitHub comments