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Terratech's Improved Loot (Beta)

Brief description:
Improves droptables for military/pirate/xenon capital ships at the moment (small ships might be considered in the future). The focus lies on improving the very bland loot you get from killing things. The Xenon I is finally somewhat profitable to kill.

Localisation:
Only English for the moment. (Other Languages should get English as placeholders)

Compability: (Should be no more crashes)
Should be compatible with most mods. But there are some restrictions

• Will not work with other mods that influence drop tables as i have made sweeping changes and introduced new tables so i will not support patch files for drops.xml. The other mod's changes might be lost or this one wont do anything with regards to drops.
  
• Ships that are introduced in other mods will usually default to the 'military_large' droptable. Meaning medium meh drops as they are the low end capitals.
  
• There are some reported compability issues in some cases, when loading a preexisting savegame without the mod, will have to figure out what it can be. (My best bet is conflict with another mod)

• Latest XRebirth version only atm.

Features:

• Introduces specialized droptables for Pirate capitals, destroyers, carriers, Xenon K and the evilicous Xenon I.
  
• Loot has been significally revamped to make it more profitable to actually spend time killing ships. The lack of loot was a big letdown in Rebirth.
  
• Xenon I is profitable to spend time killing, but not unbalanced as there is some risk involved, as it should be. Expect 5-14 million + a special set crafting reagent drop.
  
• Introduces three new crafting sets requiring rare components (Note that they ARE RARE, or should be)
  
  • Xenon Enhanced Intrepid URV Mk5 (Really beefed up URV that your player ship can use)
    
  • Pirate Outfit (30m ish vendor trash), components drop from i.e. Titurels
    
  • Experimental Capital Set (30m ish vendor trash), components drops from regular destroyers and carriers
    
• Introduces the Xenon-Enhanced Intrepid URV Mk5 (Rare) ( Not as OP as it sounds. It is useful.)
  
  • 150k ish hull to actually prevent it from dieing within 3 secs
    
  • 5x Plasma Repeater mk2
    
  • 2x Guided Missile
    
  • Only usable by the player ship
    

Balancing:

• The aim has not been to shower the player in gold. But be an alternative to other avenues.
  
• The loot is balanced from medium early - late game.
  
• You might strike a gold mine early on in the game by snatching loot from a titurel a station has killed. You should be prepared for this, it is chance based. (Goldmine is relative here, should be an ok amount)
  
• You might get a lucky drop spree so dont run off screaming 'OMG SO UNBALANCED'.
  
• I would be happy to get comments around balancing as i probably have to work on it.
  

Future Plans:

• Provide packs with diffrent balance points so the player can choose what loot amount is appropriate.
  
• Perhaps make it possible for xenon stations to drop some loot. So thats there's a reason to go kill them.
  

Uninstallation:
I can not make any guarantees regarding save game compability when removing the mod. In most cases it should work if you remove the extension tag in your save and make sure you dont have any of the new wares or drones on your ships. If that doesnt work try searching for 'units_size_drone_ancientdrone_macro' and remove the owner unit/element.
PLEASE BACK UP YOUR SAVE ! :)