SFS Ship Pack Rebalance 1.0

Unofficial config overlay for Sirius Fleet Systems Ship Pack 1. 21. Huge thanks to PF250 — the ships are incredible. Requires the original. Same models, new roles: Praetor is a slow tank and mobile shipyard that needs escort. Hulls take real damage. Shells fly slow and majestic. Guns nerfed, still stronger than vanilla.

Description

This is not a new ship pack. It does not include meshes, textures, sounds, or any original assets. It only changes stats, slots, and a few extra XML bits (including a working mobile shipyard on Praetor).

The original pack is fantastic. The author shipped it as a high-power set on purpose: armor regenerates very fast, and one capital can cover a lot of jobs. This overlay exists so you can fly the same ships from another side.

Shields and hull now actually drop. You have to watch them. You have to think about range, escorts, and when it is time to leave. Each ship got a role.

• []Praetor — super-slow XL tank and a moving shipyard for long expeditions. Built to kill stations. Bad against fighters. Needs destroyer escort. Think twice before you relocate it. Still very thick.[/]

  []Signifer — XL battlecruiser escort. Still fat and dangerous, but it covers the fleet instead of ramming stations.[/]

  []Centurion — L destroyer escort. Covers what the battleship cannot: fighters.[/]

  []Stinger — unchanged.[/]

  The biggest gun change is not a spreadsheet number. In the original, many shells flew at 20–40 km/s — almost hitscan. That made even an XL look like a small ship with laser dots. Projectiles are now slow, heavy, and visible: plasma-like 1. 2–2 km/s on the big guns, so a giant hull throws giant shells and you can watch them go.

  Damage and rate of fire were lowered too, so volleys no longer wipe a target instantly. They still hit harder than vanilla, so the pack stays a bit more relaxed than a stock Terran fleet. If a Praetor spaces out, five to eight vanilla capitals can take it apart.

  This overlay by qadetmir. All models, weapons, and the look of the pack belong to the original author. If you prefer the original power level, keep that pack as-is.

  Original 1. 21 file: Sirius Fleet Systems Ship Pack

  Installation instructions

  Copy only the inner folder sfs_shippack_rebalance into the game.

  The zip / release folder SFS-Ship-Pack-V1-21-Rebalance-V1 is a wrapper (README, INSTALL, MANIFEST). That wrapper is not the mod. Do not put it into extensions.

  SFS-Ship-Pack-V1-21-Rebalance-V1 / sfs_shippack_rebalance  ← this one (it contains content.xml)

  SFS-Ship-Pack-V1-21-Rebalance-V1  ← wrapper, not a mod

  This is an overlay. It sits next to the original. Do not copy these files into the original folder. Do not rename sfs_shippack_rebalance.

  The game loads the original first, then this pack re-registers the same macro and component names to our XML. Meshes stay in the original.

  • []Install original Sirius Fleet Systems Ship Pack 1. 21 as X4 Foundations/extensions/sfs_shippack. Leave it enabled.[/]

    []Copy the inner folder sfs_shippack_rebalance into the same extensions/ directory. You must have two folders side by side: sfs_shippack and sfs_shippack_rebalance.[/]

    []Enable both in the in-game extensions menu.[/]

    If you merge the overlay into the original, or if you copy the wrapper folder instead of sfs_shippack_rebalance, the game will say Sirius Fleet Systems Ship Pack is missing.

    Ships already sitting in an old save often will not pick up the new macros, cargo, slots, or shipyard. Build a fresh Praetor (and the other hulls) to see the rebalance.

    Optional: also enable original sfs_shippack_npf_jobs if you want SFS ships in NPC fleets. This overlay includes the updated NPC loadouts.

    Main features

    Roles

    []Praetor (XL) — slow expedition tank, station killer, mobile shipyard / resupplier. Needs escort.[/]

    []Signifer (XL) — battlecruiser escort. Guns on every side while Praetor works a target.[/]