I tried making my own mod for X4 and it broke something.
The hurdle for modding in X4 is just a little bit higher than Stellaris…
I can make some basic stuff though, although part of what I was trying to mod was probably something extreme anyway so, no harm there… I think.
I wanted to make one of the factions recruitable en mass as npcs, instead of as individuals, but the way to do that requires fenangling and I think I broke it.

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My bad habits came back to bite me.
I started making my own mod for X4 after learning that the Xenon Special Equipment research only unlocks the ability to build their weapons and not the ability to build their ships.
It’s 1am and I am dying of heat yet here I am learning an entire new set of script syntax.

“Use threshold”. What is this? What does it do? Is 0 good or bad? Is 1 the highest? What happens if I make it 2? Why are some 0.6 and some 0.7?

If my game crashes and burns around me I only have myself to blame.
But I want to build a shiny Xenon fleet! Industry and domination shall prevail!

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I just…
Spent the day making a mod…
I never expected the day to come, but yeah, I’m a modder again now.

Actually it was just an x4 mod, and surprisingly my experience modding stellaris came in handy!
It used a very similar structure, despite being a very different game and engine.
I guess it’s just one of those convergent design things where it comes to games?
I haven’t touched an actual triple a game for modding so I wouldn’t know for those…

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I do believe a horse drawn hearse just went by my window…
That was rather surreal…
I didn’t get time to look at it properly because I didn’t notice until it was going right by and there were cars parked in the way, but it was a glass box carriage being pulled.

The sun was glaring right in my eyes off of the glass so I couldn’t make out the contents before it was obscured.

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So on the way back from the shop I saw what I think was a bright object fall from the sky but unfortunately I was both standing underneath a lamppost at the time and am notoriously short sighted so I couldn’t make out any details.
I may have imagined it, it may have been a rogue firework, it may have been a meteor, I will never know.

But it didn’t fall onto my house and there’s no bombshell suddenly lodging with me, I don’t think it could possibly be aliens sadly.
Seems I have to wait a little longer for my protagonist era.
Actually given my age I will probably start to qualify for the middle aged neet getting isekaid for a second chance at life or whatever in a few years…

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I am well and truly stuck on one of the challenge levels of Project Neural Cloud.
Sadly every guide I have found for preference uses characters I don’t have…
The closest I found uses a healer I don’t have, and my attempts to substitute her haven’t worked for some reason.

I might give it a few more shots tomorrow.
I’ll probably just throw it on automode in the background all day and every time it fails just put it to repeat again.
Maybe it will somehow stumble on an rng solution instead of a strategic solution.
One can hope anyway… the problem is the two more higher difficulty levels that come after…

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I bought a drink at the shop today but didn’t get a snack.
I regretted it very quickly because there were no snacks in the house…
Well, I guess I could have made myself a sandwich or something…

In hindsight I should have done that…
A bit late now.

Anyway the only reason I didn’t buy a snack was because my weekly discounts would reset tomorrow.

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After ReZero did the “dust explosions aren’t actually that convenient” twist making fun of the cliche of isekai protagonists defaulting to dust explosions when wanting to flex modern knowledge on unsuspecting fantasy worlders I didn’t think I’d get another amusing twist of the same type.

But this one went a step further, and had the isekai protagonist completely oblivious to existence and applications of something from Earth that other characters knew.

I am really enjoying the gimmick of the twin heroines being massive geeks who love researching objects from Earth and being really knowledgeable about them, while the protagonist is dragged along because he’s “one of those objects from Earth”.
I look forward to future chapters from this.

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