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A Better Start (LITE)

Start your campaign with a mild advantage. Increased starting resources, reduced research, field team, market, spec op time / costs.


Here we are again five years later but now like your finances, we're diversified. The goal is the same, crush enemies of peace but now with an elite squad of mixed species and origins. Time is not our friend as the rate of unrest grows rapidly leaving you to head in the field equipped with weak gear and little to no training. You have command over a high tech HQ and a squad that deserves more.. it deserves A Better Start....(well at least a good start)


A Better Start (LITE) overrides the game's default values that pertain to the start of the game and all aspects managing your base and team, also known as the "strategy" part of Chimera Squad. The improvements are scaled to the difficulty level of your game.

LITE - Enhanced | Improved | Buffed:

• Starting Resources - Business owners in the city pooled funds to aid in the fight. Deposits to the starting Credits, Intel, and Elerium have been made to help. is it still extortion if the owner willingly pays for protection?.
  
• Starting Inventory - A few surplus items were acquired for the battle saving you some credits for more significant purchases later.
  
• Reduced Market Costs - An employee discount is now applied to the market. It's not a lot but, hey its better than full price.
  
• Faster/Cheaper Research - Hired engineers that would make Shen proud to research new equipment somewhat faster.
  
• Faster/Cheaper SpecOps - Spec Ops was given a cache of actionable intel and an active network to turn around ops in less time.
  
• Greater Field Team Rewards - Field Teams are now subsidized but the same businesses allowing for lower costs and nominally greater returns. Field Team city / district actions frequency remains unchanged..

All of my "A Better *" Mods are nothing more than config file overrides. There is no actual compiled code in these mods. If you like the mod but wished there was one thing changed about it please leave me feedback. However, if you want to make your own tweaks then follow the file paths below and open them up. I have placed comments to describe the changes I have made. A lot of the variables are pretty straight forward and verbose.

* Most of the buffs can only be applied at the start of a new game. You can load this on a save but you will see only a few improvements to market prices or reduction in duration times of new items and actions that happen after the mod is loaded