More fringe civilian ships

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When you start playing, you are in a majority Fringe system. The Fringe civilian ships are likely your first impression of the game. When you first see The Last Lightyear, you think 'woah! a cool unique exploration vessel'. And then you see it again and again because there are only 4 low tier Fringe civilian ships. And this is the faction that's supposed to make their ships from scraps, not mass produce them.

So, I started making some more Fringe ships. Here are 4 already. The two smaller ones are a bit unique in being tier 1 and 2, smaller than any other civilian ship, but I think it works. And they have the necessary parts to behave normally on their trade routes.

NOTE: don't do this. I'll make a mod.

You can already add these to your game by adding the .ship.png files in
Steam\steamapps\common\Cosmoteer\Data\builtin_ships\Fringe\Civilian

Be careful in the next part, because if you mess up your game won't start.
In the same folder as the png's, modify builtins_fringe_civilian.rules with these lines (under //Trade ships) to add the ships:

    :~{ File="Stirner.ship.png";                Tier=2;  Tags : ~/Tags [trade]; OtherIDs=["Cospito"]; }
    :~{ File="Hoodlouse.ship.png";              Tier=3;  Tags : ~/Tags [trade]; OtherIDs=["Combus"]; }
    :~{ File="Mule.ship.png";                   Tier=3;  Tags : ~/Tags [trade]; OtherIDs=["Extended Warranty"]; }

And to make them actually show up as trading vessels in your game, you need to edit career.rules and look for //Fringe under TradeShips, and add these ships:

(careful: the labels, eg. fringe_3a, have to be unique per ship. These new ships have unique labels, otherwise the game won't start.)

    // Fringe
    fringe_1a  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Veloci";                 Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 7];   StasisSpeed=87; StasisTradeTime=30; }
    fringe_1b  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Pawn Prawn";             Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 7];   StasisSpeed=87; StasisTradeTime=30; }
    fringe_3e  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Stirner";                Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 8];   StasisSpeed=50; StasisTradeTime=40; }
    fringe_3f  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Cospito";                Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 8];   StasisSpeed=50; StasisTradeTime=40; }
    fringe_3g  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Hoodlouse";              Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 9];   StasisSpeed=69; StasisTradeTime=40; }
    fringe_3h  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Combus";                  Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 9];   StasisSpeed=69; StasisTradeTime=40; }
    fringe_3i  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Mule";                   Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 9];   StasisSpeed=77; StasisTradeTime=40; }
    fringe_3j  : ~/BaseTradeShip { ShipID="Extended Warranty";      Faction=fringe;   TierRange=[1, 9];   StasisSpeed=77; StasisTradeTime=40; }

Finally, you need to restart your game and the ships will start showing up in Fringe systems.

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Please don't, make a mod instead.

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Alright, time to get into modding. I checked out the default mod and it seems like the dev did a really good job of making modding approachable.
That doesn't mean I don't think more fringe ships should be part of the base game of course :).

[pure forum]

Yeah, of course, I really like the suggestion still.

I didn't mean to make you think that I thought the suggestion was bad.

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No worries! I didn't take it that way. Thanks for your support.

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Here's the mod!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3301187659

[hardy quarry]

Donno what's gone wrong but all of a sudden your mod is crashing existing games and causing new ones to fail to load.
Nothing has changed between the last time this was working but now this happens whenever its active

I'm still investigating myself. Already totally deleted and redownloaded the mod