[DEVBLOG#152] Vanilla Outposts Expanded second look

This looks like it will pair really well with VFE ancients whenever theyre both out!

Alexander Charpentier

Yep!

Oskar Potocki

Another question, can you swap the people in the outpost. For instance send your builder to the drilling outpost for the first step, then send your miners and take your builders back home ?

Alexandre F.

Yes

Oskar Potocki

Very fair points, at the moment it didn’t generate a raid at main base but I think it should. It doesn’t work for quest raids. Those need to specifically target your local map.

Oskar Potocki

Just a skill!

Oskar Potocki

Will settlement output take into account plant speed, manipulation etc of pawns you send? Or is it just skill?

What happens if the Defensive Outpost loses the fight? Does the game generate a new raid from the same faction a few days later? Does it also work against event-generated raids (like from quests, the reactor startup, and the drone hack), or only raids from the Storyteller's Major Threat cycle?

Scott Dockery

That'd actually be really fun. Throw in some other scouting events as well, like having it more rarely generate things like a map that just has multiple ancient dangers. Maybe include some cross-mod integration, like very rarely rolling a VFE Vikings Tomb, VFE Insectiods Infested Base, or VFE Ancients Complex.

Scott Dockery

I'm really looking forward to this mod as it will help me make something of those pawns that aren't good enough to recruit but still have decent skills. I like having few pawns so getting fish or components from captured prisoners instead of having them sit here until I can drop pod them for relation improvement will be great ! Also just to clarify, does having 4 Defensive Outpost mean you'll always almost intercept incoming raids ?

Alexandre F.

will defensive outposts also have a chance to intercept other threats such as herds of manhunting animals or stopping raiders with kidnapped pawns/stolen items?

EvanDownton

Seems to be a bit tedious, maybe you consider an option to auto-caravan these pawns along with all the items they had with them before joining fight?

Артем Архаин

The scavenging outpust brought up the idea of an outpost of scouts, which gives the player possible raid quests for the settlements where loot is found

Nope, it’s all random!

Oskar Potocki

All numbers are to be changed, mod hasn’t even been in testing yet. It will go through at least 2 weeks of balancing

Oskar Potocki

They join the outpost and need to be withdrawn after the fight

Oskar Potocki

With the scavenging outpost are some pieces of loot more likely to show up, and if they are will having more pawns make it more likely for good loot to appear?

Polarbits

I don't like the calculations and balance for the manufacturing outpost and that the mod promotes quantity over quality. The player just needs to gather some poor/unwanted prisoners, train them *some* crafting to reach levels of 6-10 and they've completely trivialized the component problem, one of the most bottlenecking and valuable resources. Getting 200++ advanced components a year or 1000+ components a year sounds way too good. I think the number (or frequency) can easily go down by 75% or more. Otherwise the mod sounds really interesting and I'm excited for it.

Never Sink

Can I send pawns to defensive outpost, or any other, while it is raided, to help with ongoing battle? And if yes, what happenes with these troops once the battle is over?

Артем Архаин

If such items are part of existing loot tables, then they can bring them in as well!

Oskar Potocki

It caps at 10 days between shipments.

Oskar Potocki

What happens if I put 6 Pawns in the Scavenging Outpost?

Twonki

Can the Scavenging Outpost bring items from other mods as well?

Andromeus