I wish to add this to my own mod; making fleet keep a minimum amount of troops on-board (to defend against boarding pods). Is there a way to mod this in or is it hard coded into the game?

Hey Foraven!

This is unfortunately done via code, and cannot be changed with a mod.

Alright, thanks for the answer. I hope you will do something about fleet crew in a future patch, boarding pods are way too effective right now.

Foraven wrote:

Alright, thanks for the answer. I hope you will do something about fleet crew in a future patch, boarding pods are way too effective right now.

The current G2G Balance mod includes changes to boarding pods and other weapons as well.

That it does, and so does my Combat Balance Mod.

Even so, this would be a nice feature to see the devs address since boarding now exists.