Better Boarding Encounters (BBE)

This mod improves Starfield's Boarding Encounter quests - specifically docking encounters (not "dropship" or "surface" encounters).

When docking to hostile enemy ships, there is a chance for a hazard to be on board, and/or the enemy crew may decide to board your ship.

In the presence of a hazard, the chance of the enemy boarding your ship is increased.

This mod was inspired by Hazardous Ship Boarding - an early mod (pre-Creation Kit) that replaced the vanilla BEScript. The aim was to simply force the existing hazard and enemy boarding logic to run, because the ships in the base game were never actually configured to use it. However after many updates to the base game, the modified script stopped working properly, and also prevented some other vanilla bug fixes/features (such as critical hits) from working.

The objective of this mod is exactly the same as the previous. But this time I have ported the necessary logic to a separate set of scripts, and refactored/fixed/improved it. Now only human enemies can board (no turrets!), and they will be forced into a combat state, which prevents enemies from running back to their ship. In addition, any corpses left on your ship will be removed as soon as your ship travels to a new location - so there is no longer a need for a trip to the ship builder to clean all the blood stains off the upholstery.

As a bonus, this mod reveals some cut enemy dialogue - pirates may complement you on your ship, and assert that it now belongs to them!

Hazard and Boarding chances

The default probabilities for a "better" boarding encounter are:

- Hazard on enemy ship: 50%

- Enemy boarding: 25%

- Enemy boarding multiplier: 2. 4x (this gives a 60% chance of enemies boarding whenever a hazard is present)

These can be changed via the following global variables:

BBE_Global_HazardChance

BBE_Global_BoardingChance

BBE_Global_BoardingChanceMult

If you use RTFP, an example RTFP patch is included so you can easily modify these values. Just un-comment the desired lines, and insert the value you want (use a value between 0 and 1 for the percentages)

Alternatively, you can set the included gameplay option to "ALWAYS" - which will apply a 100% chance for both a hazard and for enemies to board - mainly just for testing purposes for myself, but I've left the option there for those that want it.

Good to know

Better Boarding Encounters (BBE) does not modify any vanilla records or replace any vanilla scripts. It does not require any script extenders - just the base game.

It has been tested with v1. 14.x and the latest 1. 15.x update, and should be compatible with (hopefully) all future updates.

It does not tread on, or break, any existing functionality - it ensures certain properties on the v