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CyberNet

Lovely mod. Very pretty and fun to play with

@blackrave By default, yes. The original intent was that the prosthetics are more powerful than anything vanilla, but they're not really portable; you were meant to choose between those options. However, by popular demand, I introduced a setting to remove that tradeoff. You can find it in the settings menu, with a title something like "prosthetics connect off-map".

So, if I understand this correctly implants function only on maps with functioning Glitternet?
Meaning that it's not suitable for caravans and off-colony ops?

@K that makes good sense, then. thank you

@whenwrašk By default, CyberNet prosthetics only stay connected on the map with your GlitterNet network. That's the main trade-off of the mod; the prosthetics are cheaper (sort of) and more powerful than archotech (sometimes), but you need to stay in one place. However, there's an option in the mod settings to keep prosthetics connected off map you can turn on if you want.

probably a dumb question, but do these lose efficiency or anything like that when the pawn they're installed into goes off-map?

That's a reason, sure. :) Thanks for making these mods, they're a dleight.

@Rihlsul It's been years since i set that but I believe the reasoning was something like... For CyberNet prosthetics to work they need access to a GlitterNet, the only known instance of which was designed and built by your colony. All of the protocols were designed by your colonists too, so even if someone else had a supercomputer network, they wouldn't be able to connect a CyberNet prosthetic to it - they'll only ever work with your technology. All of this is to say that CyberNet prosthetics are utterly useless to anyone but your colony, except perhaps as a last resort that would constantly be disconnected, and there's no way anyone but your colonists could build one that functions with your network, so it doesn't make sense for traders to buy or sell them.

Would you be up for adding marketValue and tradeTags (removing the tradeability none from Abstract)? The items aren't sellable and can't be found on traders that one might expect.

@Ataxius I understand where you, and the many other people who've talked about this are coming from. Ultimately I don't think there's a way I can reasonably balance something like off-map prosthetics with a resource cost. It's a completely new capability, something that you can't achieve any other way. In a sense, it's priceless, and so any resource cost will be too little. Also, there's a lot of technical aspects to consider of having conditionally added buildings on a setting you can toggle at will. It would be a nightmare to program.

Ultimately I'm no longer actively modding (and haven't played the game in years) so this is unlikely to be changed. The extent of my support for my mods right now is porting them to new versions and fixing any reported bugs. So if you want to play CyberNet the way it was intended, then play with off-map prosthetics off and without any other prosthetics mods. Then you'll be faced with choices without a right answer, which is what I wanted.