Would it work if you use the planet depletion trait instead of the vodyani one? I am playing craver visual with shipbound at the moment and its the most fun combo I have played on endless by far. I thought it was going to be really overpowered but then realised I could really only have 3 pops per ship as otherwise the planets deplete too fast and trying to juggle strategic resources is a task aswell.

I advise anyone to have ago with it.

I am also playing with the combat balance mod which is also a massive improvement.

Oh, wow that does sound extremely cool! Moving from place to place on great ships eating the planets!

A lot of things are hard-coded when it comes to factions, so not everything is possible. I'm not sure exactly what can be done here, but I'm sure @Aitarus is probably the expert on this since he's spent so much time on this.

You could make a custom Vodyani visual and assign them Extreme Foremen to get similar gameplay yeah, but to make Cravers themselves not grow would be separate as the pop growth type is set for the visual affinity not the gameplay (ship bound). Currently I don't think there's a way to hand that down onto the pop.

Yes, I like the idea of combining depletion with a mobile empire. It's reminscient of Vasari Loyalists from Sins - I was at one point considering adding a lighter depletion mechanic for Vodyani proper as part of my rework to try and incentivise moving your Arks more, but scrapped it.