Dynamic Crisis Strength

Stellaris: 4.2.* Note that this mod doesn't override vanilla game files and is likely to remain compatible even without updates. TLDR: This mod adjusts the endgame crisis level when it spawns, based on the strength of the top 5 empires in the galaxy. This Mod: can be added to an ongoing game. can be added during an ongoing crisis. can be used in multiplayer. can be removed at any time, changes are reverted automatically. does not work with modded crisis at this time. has settings accessible via edict. affects mid game crisis. Motivation You know how you have to set the crisis level at the start of your playthrough, essentially predicting how well the next 200 years of gameplay will go? Then you actually play the game and when the crisis finally spawns, it's either a pushover or absolutely dominating. This mod tries to address this problem of appropriate crisis strength by waiting for the crisis to spawn, then measuring the galaxies military strength in overall fleet power and setting the crisis level accordingly. Technical Details The mod triggers when any empire is created with one of the crisis types (swarm, extradimensional, ai_empire). It then calculates the fleet power of every playable empire by iterating over each of their owned fleets. The top 5 empires are identified based on their fleet power and a weighted average is calculated as follows with empire1 as the strongest: (empire1 * 1 + empire2 * 0.8 + empire3 * 0.6 + empire4 * 0.4 + empire5 * 0.2) / 3 . In addition, the top 5 player empires are identified and their weighted average is calculated in the same way. Then the average of both values is taken as the galaxy fleet power. It is possible for a player to be present in both the top 5 empires and top 5 players calculation. So with two players as the first and third strongest empire, the calculation would be: ((player1 * 1 + empire2 * 0.8 + player2* 0.6 + empire4 * 0.4 + empire5 * 0.2) / 3 + (player1 * 1 + player2 * 0.8) / 1.8 ) / 2 = galaxy fleet power.