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The Tiny Hungering Vulpines Stellaris Mod V0.9
🕑 Added 2020-01-28 23:33:30 +0000 UTCAnd that title is still quite a mawful to say!
There's been quite a lot of work on this mod since version 0.1, including a complete rebuilding of the mod from the bottom up. In this version of the mod, so much has changed (more or less the entire mod) that instead of listing the changes, I'll just list what it does.
The Tiny Hungering Vulpines (That is the name she calls herself) will now appear as a Fallen Empire at the start of the game. There is a chance of her appearing in any galaxy generation, and you will be given an event notification to know if she's spawned in the game. Eventually this mechanic is to randomise the chances of her appearing as a Fallen Empire or Devouring Swarm.. but I simply haven't had the time to implement her more hungering state yet.
At the start of the game, she will not be active. Instead, her SwarmFox drones will be sleeping, and she may snore a little in comms. As such she won't do much aside attack those that enter firing range much like when you swat your alarm clock because you want to sleep some more.
If you annoy her enough, she will wake up. However, she will still be very dozy and very snacky, sending her drones all over the place with less thought behind who or what she's munching on. All she wants is a mid-nap snack. After a while, she'll fall asleep again... most likely with her bellies filled more then before. This can seriously shake up the dynamics of the game either in your favour, or very much to your cost.
Eventually, The Tiny Hungering Vulpines will awake. And she will hunger. She should act much like most awakened empires, though instead of ideology or the like she's just hungering for all the organics around her as her Causes Beli. Synthetics will be seen as tools at the end of their lifecycle, and she intends to dispose of them as such.
You might also wake her properly if you keep poking her after she's had her mid-nap snack, though she may also just have some more sleepy snackings before napping more.
In terms of limitations of the mod and things to improve, I will be working on making her possibility of not appearing in the galaxy be swapped for her appearing as a normal/advanced AI start as a Devouring swarm in stead. There are some issues I've encountered with her invading planets and a colossus idea I've been attempting that both run into the same issue with results swapping some populations for SwarmFox drones. For now invasions work, but I'm hopeful to eventually have a colossus that is nothing but a giant hulk filled with billions of hungering vulpines, ready to rain down on planets and consume their populations entirely within moments (complete with a modified purging xenos mass crying out sound to be silenced by munching when used). And if I'm able to financially, I'd very much like to commission Timor some day to make the avatars for the Tiny Hungering Vulpines animated. The only thing holding back *that* is funding: I do not take money for this mod nor do I hold it behind paywalls (it's free for any over 18 to download!) as per Paradox's rules however if you'd like to see things like animated Tiny Hungering Vulpine avatars and faster work on the mod, I'll certainly be able to justify spending extra time during the week working on all this!
Please do let me know what you think of the mod, and how playthroughs go for you (or any issues you encounter while playing her!) currently this mod is still in Alpha stage, and there are a bunch of code I need to spend some time going through... but hey, the mod should at least work without issues! If there are any bugs you encounter, I'd love to know!
