Disclaimer : Any modifications to the game files can produce unwanted effects and throw off the game balance (and can also have some adverse effects the the IA players).

ALWAYS BACKUP ANY FILES BEFORE REPLACING WITH MINES

To find the endless space folder just go to steam library and right click on ES2 --> proprieties --> local files Tab --> browse local files

Although i think i mostly did my job correctly so it shouldn't happen, if you have any problems let me now

also an easy way to restore to default configuration is to go to proprieties --> local files Tab --> verify integrity of cache ,  it should give you the "factory" build

You just need to drag and drop the files and overwrite when prompted, to get the files from the .xml you can just right click and "save as" when in the .xml file on your browser

Update : new mode for Update2

Modulable Manpower on ships

Reduce base manpower on ships a lot and adds support slot to fill or not for the loss of manpower (so you don't have to build ships neededing 100 or 300 manpower when you won't use them for invasion)

Slots are : signle for smal ships, x2 for medium ships and x4 for largeships , that should allow you to have about the same amount of manpower as before if filled with basic manpower module (note that while they work as intended these slots are not tagged x2 or x4 on UI)

ModulableManpowerOnShips.rar

Voydani Quest + Building reward : Cattle Farms

This mod add a small quest (brainwash a Minor Civ) and rewards a building (500 production cost -30 food on the system + 20 essence). Always thought it was strange that the voydani wouldn't keep at least a few people to feed on in a preserve or something, well now they can. The quest is independent and can be completed together with the Chapter 1 step 2 (cloth and the church 2) quest where you have to brainwash a minorciv.

The quest should proc by itself at turn 10

Localisation is english only (for now) !!! other languages will see errors instead of text but it should still work

The contents are to be droped in the EndlessSpace2/Public folder 

VampirilisCattleFarmsMod.rar

Lowered Influence Border Growth

Lower the border growth speed (mostly visible in late game, early borders should be about the same) making it much much harder to cover the whole galaxy with the influence of your home system

Path : Endless Space 2\Public\Simulation

SimulationDescriptors[ColonizedStarSystem].xml

Population based unhapiness : 

Never found it strange that Lumeris get negative approval from their home planet or that species that lived in gas planet suddenly decide it's the worst planet ever?

- unhappiness from planet removed

- population now gets -1 hapiness for each planet tier they are on (temperate = tier 0, atoll = tier 1 ....... ice = tier 4 and gaz are tier 5)

- some population gets +- hapiness depending on their home planet/their bonus (for instance mavros gets better industry on hot, so i gave them +1 happiness on hot and -1 on cold)

- Bots minorfaction unhapiness from planet tier halved (they are bot they shouldn't suffer as much from the elements) (wanted to lower voydani unhapiness but they have low pop count, so they already have less unhappiness)

If people want to try it and give me some returns

Path : EndlessSpace2/Public

PopulationBasedHappiness.rar

Bigger Planets, Bigger Systems, lower planet tiers

Space colonisation for Newbies

path : Endless Space 2\Public\GalaxyGenerator

you can actually open it and fiddle with the weight definitions, it's not hard to do and you can customize it the way you like

 WeightTableDefinitions.xml

 Bellow are old files from Before Update 1
Fixed truce behavior :

Truce will now prevent you from hostile action against ships and systems but will keep borders open
DiplomaticRelationStates[Major].xml

Location to drop file :  Endless Space 2\Public\Diplomacy

Fully Colonizable Galaxy 

Removed all tier 4 telluric planets and replaced them by the one 1 level beneath (lava to ash, ice to ocean, baren to artic and desert to arid)

Removed gaz planets from all systems but a few (since there is a minor faction linked to them)

WeightTableDefinitions.xml

Location to drop file : Endless Space 2\Public\GalaxyGenerator

(i will probably post a "magical galaxy" with uber high ressource repartitions and only huge planets in big systems if anyone wants)

Break truce

Will let you declare war again after truce has been forced on you

ForeignAffairsConstructibles[Terms].xml

Location to drop file :  Endless Space 2\Public\Diplomacy

Oddly enough the IA players will respond correctly knowing you broke a truce, i think a higher tier diplomacy tech (unavailable yet) may provide the ability to break truce since these dialogues were already implemented




More to come



Enjoy your game ;)

You sir are a Gentlemen and a Scholar. Thank you! Will try these edits and post back at some point. 

For those interested i made a mod with the following effects :

- unhappiness from planet removed

- population now gets -1 hapiness for each planet tier they are on (temperate = tier 0, atol = tier 1 ....... ice = tier 4 and gaz are tier 5)

- some population gets +- hapiness depending on their home planet/their bonus (for instance mavros gets better industry on hot, so i gave them +1 happiness on hot and -1 on cold)

- Bots minorfaction unhapiness from planet tier halved (they are bot they shouldn't suffer as much from the elements) (wanted to lower voydani unhapiness but they have low pop count, so they already have less unhappiness)

If people want to try it and give me some returns

Path : EndlessSpace2/Public

PopulationBasedHappiness.rar

PS : i am open to requests if you want an extra law slot for dictatorship or a godmod i can give these to you (well most of these anyway ^^)

Pejman wrote:

you can still graft a tech on an existing node of the tree, but I'm not sue about how to make a new tech altogether, may need to ask someone (meedoc probably >.>)

i'm trying to make a siege ship at the moment (basically a dreadnought with a siege mode action that would make it unable to move but with much higher firepower and shields, changing modes costs action points)

Just follow the white rabbit names of nodes :)

Then create when needed ?