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Faster Ship Availability

FSA is simple - it makes larger hull types available earlier in the game. This is the cure for boring early-game Corvette only combat!

"Basic" versions of the larger hulls are now available one tier earlier than before.

- Basic Frigates are now a starting technology. This includes Space Torpedoes.
- Basic Destroyers are a tier 1 technology, meaning they can potentially be researched immediately once the game starts.
- Basic Cruisers and Basic Battleships are now available as tier 2 and tier 3 technologies, respectively.

For Destroyers, Cruisers, and Battleships, each respective hull's build speed upgrade (Standardized Build Patterns) now also upgrades that hull type from "Basic" to "Advanced". The only difference between these two is the "Advanced" hull has 100% more hull points. The "Advanced" hull is the same as the Vanilla configuration.

Basic Frigates have one new tier 1 tech to upgrade to Advanced. This is the only new tech added by this mod.

Corvette - 200 HP (No basic version of Corvette)
Basic/Advanced Frigate - 200/400 HP
Basic/Advanced Destroyer - 300/600 HP
Basic/Advanced Cruiser - 900/1800 HP
Basic/Advanced Battleship - 1500/3000 HP

No changes to Titans or Juggernauts.

This sounds complicated but it's actually simple. You have access to larger ships early, but they have significantly weaker hulls and are therefore less effective until you can upgrade them to Advanced. They are also vulnerable to shield and armor penetrating weapons (i.e. Frigates and torpedoes).

The early game rock-paper-scissors becomes:
- Starports and Defense Platforms are strong against Corvettes. (No change from Vanilla)
- Corvettes are strong against Basic Frigates.
- Basic Frigates are strong against Starports and Defense Platforms.

I would highly recommend combining this with my general combat improvement mod, Stellaris Better Combat. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2390168133

As always, feedback is encouraged and appreciated!


Faster access to larger ships allows interesting configurations not normally seen, such as Tier 1 weapons on a Battleship. (Shown with unique sections and components from Stellaris Better Combat)


Frigates and Torpedoes as starting technology. Note Destroyer tech is Tier 1 and only cost 2000 research points.


There is only one new technology added by FSA, shown here, that upgrades Frigates from Basic to Advanced.


Modified technology. In addition to build speed and cost improvement, it upgrades Cruisers from "Basic" to "Advanced".

Mod Compatibility

This mod is very lightweight and only changes a few scripted variables (common\scripted_variables\) and technologies (common\technology). The technology changes are limited to the tier and modifiers for the ship research and upgrade techs. Any other mod that explicitly modifies these will conflict.