Customizable Expansion Delay
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 4.5% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #213 of 551 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Delays the start of the Trackers Alliance, Shattered Space, and Terran Armada questlines with a customizable minimum level, minimum days passed, and random chance.
A new universe. A fresh start. As I touch down at New Atlantis for the first time, a figure approaches me. She says her guild has been following my exploits... Lady, I just got here!Customizable Expansion Delay adds level requirements, minimum days passed, and random chance for the Trackers Alliance, Shattered Space, and Terran Armada missions to begin. Level requirements aren't enough to avoid being bombarded by new missions when starting New Game+ at an already high level, so requiring a certain amount of days to pass gives you time to make a name for yourself and get properly set up for the more difficult expansions.
Must be installed before the missions have begun to have any effect. Delaying The Trackers Alliance requires a new game or New Game+.
The Changes
In the Options menu you will find nine new settings to customise your experience. For Trackers Alliance, Shattered Space, and Terran Armada, you can individually change:
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[]Level: The minimum level you must be before the mission can begin.[/]
[]Days: How many days must have passed before the mission can begin.[/]
[]Chance: The percentage chance rolled every time you enter a valid location that the mission can begin once the Level and Days requirements are met. Can be set to 0% to delay the missions indefinitely.[/]
- []Bounties: The amount of bounty missions (destroy ship or kill target) that must be completed before the mission can begin.[/]
To respect both their difficulty and release order, Trackers Alliance has lower requirements, Shattered Space has higher, and Terran Armada has the highest.
Compatibility
Mods that edit the opening missions, including alternate start mods, may override Customizable Expansion Delay's mission requirements and prevent them from working as expected.
This mod is a Small Master and edits the Shattered Space and Terran Armada opening mission Story Manager Quest Node records, as well as The Trackers Alliance mission record.
Also available on Bethesda at:
https://creations.bethesda.net/en/starfield/details/3c399c9b-2b85-409a-872e-a907aa72bb1e/Customizable_Expansion_Delay
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Starfield Mods
- Author
- SamanthaSays
- Version
- 1.3.0
- Downloads
- 2,661
- Endorsements
- 120
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 4/20/2026
- Updated
- 5/16/2026
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