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Fusion Reactor

Description
This extension adds two types of fusion reactors as station modules, so that stations are no longer reliant on sunshine to produce energy cells.

Deuterium-Deuterium Fusion Reactor

This type of reactor uses hydrogen alone to produce energy cells. As it can only fuse hydrogen it produces helium as a byproduct.

Deuterium-Helium Fusion Reactor

This type of reactor uses hydrogen and helium to produce more energy cells as the D-D reactor. There is no byproduct, but it requires both elements.

Blueprints

Both reactors are close-kept secrets of the below factions, so high reputation is required to buy them.
Their insane shielding also requires a high amount of resources to build.

You can buy blueprints for these reactors at the following faction representatives:

- Alliance of the Word
- Antigone Republic
- Argon Federation
- Holy Order of the Pontifex
- Ministry of Finance
- Godrealm of the Paranid
- Teladi Company
- Realm of the Trinity
- Hatikvah Free League
- Court/Cabal of Curbs (Split Vendetta DLC)
- Free Families (Split Vendetta DLC)
- Zyarth/Rhak Patriarchy (Split Vendetta DLC)
- Vigor Syndicate (Tides of Avarice DLC)
- Riptide Rakers (Tides of Avarice DLC)

I might release a second mod for Cradle of Humanity with specific Terran-economy balanced values.

Other Factions

The modules are not integrated in any of the faction factories as it is unclear what major impact they would have on the economy as a whole.

Thanks

ShadowDragon8685 came up with the idea on the Egosoft Discord and helped calculate production values.

ColdRogue26 helped me find a useful model and tested the reactors.

Thank you both so much!

Contributions

If you'd like to contribute and for example help balance this mod, or maybe help figure out how to have factions build them on their own, head over to https://gitlab.com/bit-refined/x4-extensions/fusion-reactor to get started. You can also contact me on the Egosoft Discord server :)
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13 Apr, 2023 @ 7:18am
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raz334 7 May @ 6:20pm 
the half hour build times make it far to painful for any practical use of this. I really tried for months to integrate this into my builds and game play, but honestly, i'd rather build a massive solar array than a single one of these fusion generators because the time it locks up for building the d*mn think costs more in production value of everything else i could be doing with that time, than anything else.
( i admit i use time shortening build mods, but i'm not going to wait 72 real hours to build my stations like i'd done a few times before just because of all the slow build timers and this one really adds alot to it. )
31st 1 Apr @ 5:34pm 
Please post the terran version, its such a nice mod to have
dmansail 2 Oct, 2024 @ 2:56am 
Very expensive for the amount that produce
Duke Flapjack 24 Aug, 2024 @ 7:03am 
Gotcha. I'm friendly enough with the Teladi to be able to buy the zillions of hull plates required so no biggie! It's still really nice work.
Byter  [author] 24 Aug, 2024 @ 1:09am 
@Flapjack

As far as I can remember that's not an adjusted one. I basically tried adding it but couldn't figure out a way to do it at the time. Also it likely needs to be put in a special terran DLC directory with its own wares.xml etc. There were a ton of reasons I left it like that but the major one was that my holidays were over and I had to get back to work. 🙃
Duke Flapjack 23 Aug, 2024 @ 8:15pm 
I was poking around in the wares.xml file and there is a Terran version that's simply commented out. Is there any reason one cannot uncomment it? Is it otherwise complete?
NATOSpyder 26 Jul, 2024 @ 12:01pm 
@Noctis I mean yeah, that's not usually what 'save compatible' means. it means you can add it to a save that was already started, not being able to remove AND add at will. Of course if you remove the thing that added a model and station module it's going to cause errors!
Noctis 7 Mar, 2024 @ 4:50pm 
not save compatible can not uninstall without losing your save
FurryFailure 26 Nov, 2023 @ 4:31pm 
I'd kill to have a Terran version, because goodlord this solves so many problems.
knightphantom420 28 Sep, 2023 @ 3:22am 
ok well maybe u will change ur mind if u have the time.. i will consider adding ur 2 mods ;p