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Range Increase Mod

Scales up ranges for AI and LWC by x5 to enable long distance combat. This lets craft fight past the 5000m limit.

Range settings capped at 5000m are multiplied by 5, so an AI behaviour set to 500m holds station at 2500m instead. Weapon controllers, combat distances, attack runs, and similar settings all scale together.

The mod uses the built-in scale function to scale distances for AI and LWCs. This makes it so that vanilla craft are compatible with the mod and will fight over long distances.

This mod does NOT scale up ranges of LUA scripts.

I have NOT tested this with breadboards.

There is an in-game button you press to turn scalings on and off. DO NOT save ships when the button is toggled, it will break every range on the craft. When editing ships only edit them when the button is turned off.

This mod has some issues for certain crafts and will not be a balanced experience since some ships are better at range than others and certain factions will perform much better.

Weapons get effected by the increased ranges too. Namely crams, missiles and lasers. For crams i suggest increasing their speed using the games builtin setting. For missiles I made a seperate mod that increases their speeds and range by modifying missile drag and fuel present in a missile. For lasers I have NOT found a solution yet.

I tested PointAtDistance, Circle, Broadside and Attack run behaviours. Feel free to let me know what is broken so I can fix it.

I highly recommend you use these mods alongside this one.

Missile Speed and Range mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3780851428
Long Range Engagement: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3773853115
Vodarian Superneter: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3772434793

Known issues:

Broadside minimum range slider has a range of 0-25000 that gets scaled up to 0-125000. This is not intended but it is the simplest band-aid fix i could do to a problem with it.