I'm currently not active in Stellaris and have no insight if the Caravaneers/Nomads are even still in the game and how their event chain now work with the changes that happened.

I'll update it when I try out Stellaris again, once I hear the growing pains from the big changes in 4.0.* have passed.

Definitely don't try to run it with 4.0 before - you'll likely break your save or at least the event chain.

will the mod be update to 4.0?

Mod is currently not compatible to Stellaris. Last tested working version is 3.6

need update?

3.7.4 - should work but the plural name might be broken, as "NAME_Namarians" no longer exists in the localisation files

This mod is currently outdated, I didn't check if the last patch changed the Nomands event file, or if any syntax changed (which could cause bugs or events not fireing).

This mod only allows the Nomads to spawn, which the activated Megacorp normally DLC prevents (in favor of the Caravaneers and their EA lootboxes). No idea if Paradox changed anything about the Nomads, do as you think is best.

I remember back before the Megacorp DLC came out, the Nomads would sometimes offer me the opportunity to purchase a huge fleet for a silly low price, very early in the game. That was just stupid and horrible.

Has that been fixed, or is it something I ought to worry about before deciding whether to enable this mod or not?

@ranma100 I think this requires a new game, since that is where nomads/caranveers empires get created for a galaxy.

Does this need to be in a new game or can I drop it in an existing save?

Makes sense, I kind of wish we could mod the game just a little bit more without triggering the checksum and preventing achievements, at least mods that are fair and do not add actual advantages. Namelists, species or even enabling things that already come in the Vanilla game come to mind.

damnit i just want that damn ship

@Kashino it edits events/nomad_events.txt so it can't ever be ironman-compatible.

Generally anything that touches /commons/ or /events/ folders will break checksum (IDK if any other folders trigger checksum, but those two are guaranteed to and are the ones most impacted by anything but ui or graphical mods)

IMHO this is one thing Creative Assembly does better with Total War, they allow gathering achievements with modded play. In Stellaris you can completely cheese the difficulty by just moving Pre-FTL and game event date sliders to absurd amounts and essential be undefeatable, so the checksum check is just added tedium.

I assume this isn't the case. But is it achievement and ironman compatible?

I think I may disabled my own version of this mod and just use this one for a bit. it's basically the same, but yours is shinier

Updated and compatible with 3.4 - Overlord DLC

Update pls

Yes, still compatible to 3.3.* as nothing was changed about them recently.

This work on the current update?

Yeah I also think it's odd that owning a DLC makes you lose access to game content.

thank you i missed the nomads have no idea why they weredeactivated escially sense there events and what not dont conflict with carravaneers at all.

Updated for 3.2

Please update for the patch that released today. Thank you.

It might need an update.

I'll do an update pass on my mods soon. In the middle of moving right now, so it's hard to find time.

Does need update?

Sorry, scripting language has changed from 2.8 to 3.0. Loads of mods need an update or will have errors or silently fail at some point.

huh, didn't even realize this mod was broken in 3.0, missed the chance of having these guys in my game rip

Updated for 3.0.

@RedTheKnown Currently not compatible and WILL break due to mod api changes, will update it today.

Does anyone know if this mod works for 3.0?

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Enjoy the Golden Unicorn you deserve it

@hyper_fool_80 yes it probably was, that file only had tiny bugfixes since 2.6, but I've updated it now.

Work In 2.8.*?

Ah. I confused caravaneers with the nomads.

According to wiki (I didn't double check the game files for this):

"The date when and if the Nomads arrive is rolled at game start, with the following chances:

20% chance to appear after 20 years ± 500 days
25% chance to appear after 40 years ± 500 days
25% chance to appear after 55 years ± 500 days
30% chance to never appear

Nomads are replaced by Caravaneers if DLC is enabled." (<- this is the only thing that my mod changes, the above % chances remain unchanged)

@jack Caravaneers are a beginning of campaign setting (at the bottom). if the new game has Caravaneers enabled, then Nomads are not allowed to spawn (without this mod. With this mod, both have a chance to appear, but no guarantee).

Caravaneers require MegaCorp DLC, Nomands have been free content (or maybe Leviathans).

If i remember it correctly, the devs added caravaneers for people without the megacorp dlc. And the caravaneers are vary rare, by design.

they're still completely gone from all my playhtroguhs even when i turn the option for them on.

and i dont remember seeing them before i bought a bunch of DLC a long, long time ago when Megacorp was new.

Caravaneers is not part of any dlc. It’s in the base game.

now i just need to figure out which DLC disables the caravans.

I dont know why having all the dlc makes some DLC inaccessible

Ok, thanks. :)

It doesn't change anything else but the removal of Caraveneers if Megacorp is enabled. So if wiki says 30%, that's what it is.

Does this mod make the Nomads spawning a 100% chance? According to the stellaris wikia there is a 30% chance they won't spawn at all even if you don't have the megacorp dlc.

Looks like there was no risk of running the outdated version. Updated the tag anyway.

do it work with 2.6.2?

Yes, this needs to override 00_nomad_events.txt in order to remove the line that checks for Megacorp DLC and disable the nomads if active.

does this overide any vanilla file ?