[A17] Less Infestation Cheese

Started by RemingtonRyder, July 29, 2017, 08:48:00 PM

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RemingtonRyder

After reading a discussion about infestations being cheesed, I came up with this mod.

What it does is relax the overall scoring of infestation chance.

For example:
  • Hives will have less penalty to spawning in areas which have lighting.
  • Hives will take a slight penalty when spawning in small rooms, instead of not being able to spawn at all.
  • Hives will ignore some kinds of colony buildings when deciding how far from your colony buildings to spawn.
  • Hives can spawn further away from your colony buildings.
  • The score needed to spawn a hive is roughly halved.

This allows for more randomness of spawn location, meaning that it is harder to cheese infestations by just mining out a big dark cavern for the bugs to inhabit. You can still do that, but it's not a guarantee that they will spawn there.

In addition, I've added a small penalty to spawning at high temperatures, with no chance of infestation at temperatures exceeding 50C. My reasoning here is that it takes only a slight increase in temperature and suddenly the bugs are getting heatstroke, so why spawn there in the first place? :)

This is a test version. It works just fine, but there may be further refinements before it goes onto Workshop.

Download from Dropbox

Jibbles

Going to test this out in next play through. Thanks you :)