Stellaris Mods: Progress Updates + Milestone Achieved! (Patreon)

Hai! And welcome to another monthly update! This one is super special to me because... this one is about you! <3

We have reached the first Patreon milestone! And nobody is more shocked by it than I am! Thanks to all of my loyal Patrons, and especially a massive pledge by haaaah! StMunks-kun <3 we have finally gotten to the point where me and Nessa are able to stay up to date on Stellaris DLC without it cutting into our personal budget! So far, it has allowed us to buy Synthetic Dawn on the release day and deliver lightning-quick updates to Elves of Stellaris, Asari Civilisation and Ship Classes Extended! And we're hoping to keep up the tempo going forward! I never imagined that one day my expensive modding hobby would be self-sustainable, this still feels kinda unreal! 

We both owe you a huge, huge heartfelt thank you! I don't know how we're ever going to repay for your generosity. We never offered any serious rewards or incentives and yet we've received so much support and so many kind words of encouragement. We just... love you <3

I... I love you more tho! I mean Nessa is still allowed to be friends with you because she's a wonderful friend who would never never never get in the way of our love but but... you can only be together with me, okay? For-e-ver <3

But ahahah you would never think of leaving, would you? ◠‿◠

Would... you?

Teeheehee I'm just playing with you, silly *^▽^*

As if I'd ever let you go, tee-hee...

To keep you here with me forever and ever and ever, I have a lot of your favourite content coming! Some of it soon aaaaand... some soon™ n_n

The Asari Civilisation & Elves of Stellaris

While November turned out to be very unproductive due to all the holiday season preparations and last-minute crunch time, we did manage to get some modding done. In case you missed it, Elves of Stellaris was updated with an amazing Science Nexus model and with it, the Elven Shipset finally caught up to the Asari and they're both very close to being finished!

We're already preparing to move on to our next batch of projects so there's not going to be any breaks or hiatuses! The "Unannounced Project" codename: Chocolate Toffee will finally be announced as soon as both Elves and Asari get their Ringworlds! And the reason I'm discussing them together is because their development has been running simultaneously. Nessa is hoping to finish both Ringworlds at the same time and release them in one go!

No pictures of the Asari ring yet but here's a little preview of what you can expect of the Elven one:

Please keep in mind that this is not final! The exact shape keeps changing and we haven't really decided on the final look and there are also individual sections and quarters to take into consideration before the design is set in stone. But we do love the viney-leafy look so it's likely to stay!

The Asari Civilisation - Improved AI Support

Also in more Asari-specific news, I'm currently working on something I've been wanting to do for a while: custom AI personalities and diplomacy dialogues! I've always wanted the prescripted Asari empires to spawn as AIs but I've been holding off on that because none of the default personalities fit them quite right and those that do, annoyingly, use the wrong weapons! Ugh!

The AI update and flavour dialogues will be incorporated directly into the main mod but I won't set their empires to spawn as AIs by default. Instead, that will be a small optional patch n_n

Ship Classes Extended - Things Big, Small and Titan-ic

I um... kiiiinda forgot to announce it here but earlier in November Ship Classes Extended received a major update that brought superweapons back! In a slightly more cohesive, better implemented and less glitchy way! I got so excited for Titans coming in Cherryh I just couldn't wait! I needed a taste of things to come here and now!

In addition to adding Superdreadnought-exclusive Titan Lances, the update also made Superdreadnoughts a bit more special and limited. In order to prevent Titan Lance spam, each deployed Super costs influence to maintain and you can only have 3 at most. Building more than that will do some very bad things to your economy!

Of course, it's still temporary. Once Cherryh arrives, we'll make room for the actual Titans! The wait is unbearable!

Okay, belated "news" aside, let's talk about the future! A very very immediate future because Paradox announced that they'll be releasing the Humanoid Species Pack on December 7th! The pack features a lot of new species, three new announcers and, of course, a brand new shipset!

We're super excited about it and, of course, prepared to update SCX as soon as we physically can! We should have the 4 and 5 section frames along with animations ready on the same day so if you're interested in the pack but also need your fix of big huge ships, you won't have to wait very long! ᵘ ᵕ ᵘ

This is all for now but you'll definitely hear more from us throughout December! With all the things quickly coming to completion, we're hoping to wrap up this year with a bang and start 2018 off on the right foot!

Until then, have fun playing and, again, thank you a million times for your continued support and encouragement. I keep saying this but it really means the world to me! <3 <3 <3