Smugglers

Smuggler - someone who takes goods or people into or out of a country illegally. - Cambridge dictionary

This mod adds hostile faction SMUGGLERS that consists of cargo ships filled with legal cargo, but also some more rare goods in hidden contraband compartments. This faction is not supposed to represent one unified organisation, but very individual ships with no common style, as every smuggler is his own captain. This is done by inclusion of ships submitted by community, random colors and names of ships.

Plan for this mod is to present 20+ ships for both planets and space and in the future even smuggler hideouts both on planets and in space. If you want your ship to be included in this mod see rules for submitting bellow.

Current content:

Planetary ships

• BL-1MP (Solnakar)
• STR1K3 (Solnakar)
• H2-M4N "Hydroman" - Hydrogen and Cargo smuggler ship (Dankuser)
• 81-RNR "Blockade Runner" (Dankuser)
• H06BOG "Hog Bog, your small, good 'ol rusted (basic) carrier" (Cecille)
• MH-444 "Pernicious" (Maddhatter)
• P1630N "Pigeon" (bandnerd525)
• cV4LD4 (Solnakar)
• SL1M3R (Solnakar)
• Y43G3R (Solnakar)
• F/R-06 (Solnakar)

Space ships

• L124RD (Solnakar)
• 63CK0N (Solnakar)
• C-R-4B (Solnakar)
• B-0N-3 (Solnakar)

ToDo list:

• Trello board of submitted ships.
• Implement StopAllRotation and StopAllThrust actions on compromised trigger.
• Work on hideouts.
• Allow hydrogen planetary ships in space.
• Create ship variants with heavier weapons.

Low difficulty warning:

I decided to create this mod as an alternative for players, that don't want their jetpack to stop working or be harrassed by drones as they approach NPC ships. Players that don't like to get electrocuted, when they try to grind a block on NPC ship. Players that like to be hydromen.

If you are not such player and want more challenging NPCs, you can choose other mods from MES-Friendly Mods collection. Perhaps my CULT Remains.

Ships in this mod should give rewards balanced according to their difficulty as much as possible, but will not use any of nasty functions that MES and RAI allows. Only threat for players are turrets on ships themself, so it is relatively easy to capture them.

How to submit your ship for this mod:

• Upload your ships blueprint on Steam workshop and put link to it into comment of this mod.
• By submitting your ship you agree to the rules of this mod.
• I may modify your ship to better fit the mod theme or for balance purposes, but I will try to preserve its original character.
• Your ship will get random color shift with every spawn as well as random armor skin.
• Ships in this mod get random name every time they spawn. Give your ship short (max. 6 chars) type designation that will be used as prefix for this random name (currently only grid name, not antenna, but this may change). If you don't provide designation I will create one myself. Original name will be used in mod description.
• Which submitted ship will be included, is only my decision.
• I reserve the right to change these rules at any time.

Submitted ships have to meet following criteria:

• Idealy under 4000 PCU.
• Large grid only.
• For planetary ships atmo and/or hydrogen thrusters only. Should be capable of flying in at least 1g.
• No reactors, jump drives, or medbay. (You know, the expensive stuff.)
• For space ships are ion thrusters and gravity generators allowed.
• Should have some turrets.
• Should have antenna. If not I will add it.
• No need to fill up inventories. I will empty everything anyway.
• No mods! Vanilla only. DLC blocks are allowed.
• No scripts!
• No subgrids! I mean it, no rotors, pistons or hinges. Don't want to deal with any Clang shenanigans.
• No text based images on LCDs. If you really want specific image on some LCD check optional content.
• Your ship shouldn't be submitted for other mods already.

You can provide following optional content for your ship:

• Up to 5 short messages your ship will broadcast when approached by player. No foul language allowed. Messages not fitting the theme will be discarded.
• Image for LCDs. It has to be 512x512 size. Add it as another image on Steam and specify LCD name for it in description. It has to be your own creation.
• Pattern for random name generator (see Random Name Generator Guide).
• Prefered armor skins your ship should or shouldn't use. Current used skins are Clean_Armor, Battered_Armor, Dust_Armor, CarbonFibre_Armor, Retrofuture_Armor, SciFi_Armor, DigitalCamouflage_Armor, Mossy_Armor, Weldless, Corrugated, Plastic. If you want to add or remove some skin for your ship let me know and I will consider it.
• You can paint your ship to give it some pattern. Color randomization is done by hue shift, so colors with 0 saturation (white, grey, black) are not affected at all.