Zee's Balanced Ship Refits

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This mod aims to improve the Naval Ship Designer and Convert/Refit functionality of the game. Man The Guns is now integrated into the base game, and is no longer required.

There are 2 key changes made by this mod:

• First, the Naval XP requirements to design and swap modules on warships is reduced, allowing you to play around with the fun new designer.

• Second, the IC and Time required to refit ships is reduced.

Simple radio upgrades for your battleship will no longer take a year...

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• Set cost of adding new module to ship design to 1 XP, down from 5 XP

• Set cost of upgrading module on ship design to 2 XP, down from 3 XP

• Set cost of changing module on ship design to 3 XP, down from 6 XP

• Base IC cost for refitting reduced from 20% of ship IC, to 5% of ship IC

• Module cost < 999 - Same Category refit cost is 50%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 30%

• Module cost > 1000 - Same Category refit cost is 40%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 25%

• Engine cost < 999 - Same Category refit cost is 200%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 150%

• Engine cost > 1000 - Same Category refit cost is 100%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 75%

• Armor dismantle costs cut by ~75%

Some Context:

• "Same Category" means any change that isn't a direct upgrade. For example, upgrading from a Cruiser Engine T1 to T3, or downgrading from T4 to T3, would both be considered "Same Category". Upgrading from T2 to T3 would be "Direct".

• 200% may seem like a lot for engines, but vanilla had this value set to 500% or higher in many cases.

• What the game calls "Armor dismantle costs", are really just "Armor Replacement" costs - whether its an upgrade or a downgrade. Vanilla had this value set anywhere from 4000 to 8000 IC, easily the cost of an entire heavy cruiser built from scratch.

Corrected Several Bugs:

• Vanilla does not assign discounts when crossing between "Standard" guns and "Dual Purpose" guns for DD's, CL's, and Secondary guns.

• Vanilla does not apply any discounts to the entire Dual Purpose line of guns when changing to another DP gun as a result of a typo in the code.

• Vanilla is also missing Light Cruiser gun discounts because it mislabeled the gun upgrade as Heavy Cruiser.

• Vanilla does not add discounts for many Tier 1 components.

• All of these bugs are corrected within the mod.

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This should be compatible with most mods, with the possible exception of Naval Rework Mods and Grand Overhaul mods. Let me know if you confirm a conflict.

Confirmed Compatible:

• Road to 56
• Kaiserreich
• Hearts of Oak
• MTG Expanded
• Old World Blues

Confirmed NOT-Compatible: (these might be patchable but I don't have the time, you're welcome to try to DIY)

• Black Ice

• Extended Tech Tree 1960

• Equestria at War

• The Great War

• The New Order

• Naval Ship Designer - Cheaper Ship Designer - Cheaper Modules - Cheaper Naval XP - Less XP -