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Disable Crystal Spawn Cooldown

This mod removes the cooldown that is triggered the moment you mine a crystal that is not of the cheapest (purple) variety.

In an effort to nerf early game crystal mining profits, Egosoft introduced a cooldown on the spawning of medium and high value crystals. The moment you mine one of those crystals, all other existing crystals will turn purple and the only crystals that will spawn in that sector (for an hour or so, judging by the scripts) will also be the purple ones.

If you don't know about this cooldown, you will end up bored and frustrated with the concept of crystal mining as you have no idea why you suddenly only find purple crystals. Nothing indicates to you that travelling to another zone allows you to find better crystals again.
And if you do know, this feature will feel like an artificial timegate to prevent farming, as you now know all the glints in your current asteroid field have turned into near useless purple crystals.

This mod alters the objectspawnrules.xml file by removing the "cooldown" attribute for each crystal spawning rule. Other variables such as spawn rates are left vanilla.

v1.00 - Initial version.

- Tested with patch 4.20
- Tested with patch 5.0
- Tested with patch 6.0
- Tested with patch 7.0
- Tested with patch 7.1 BETA