@Guardsman Plus done :)

Mod is updated for 3.2 / Aquatics

I really like this kind of mod, but the absence of the +10 buff kinda hurts it. Could you increase the starting fleet size by +30 to compensate?

very cool, this mod is very useful

I'll do an update pass on my mods soon. In the middle of moving right now, so it's hard to find time.

apparently the mod doesn't work anymore (I tried several places in the mod load order screen and waited a few in-game months, nothing)

I think the easiest way to understand what I changed, so that you could apply this to a local mod on your computer that modifies the NSC files, would be to extract my mod and use a tool like Notepad++ to highlight the differences between mine and the Stellaris vanilla files. Then apply this to the extracted NSC mod and load that locally instead.

That's unfortunate. If it's no problem could I ask how I could go about doing something like that for NSC?

This overwrites 00_eng_tech.txt and 00_ship_sizes.txt - so probably not.

Will this work with NSC2 Season 5 or just vanilla?

Nope, no debuff for battleships, but early on Battleships kinda suck since they have almost no evasion but cost a lot of upkeep&alloy.

Interesting idea. Did you balance it? If I build battleships on day one, I can place 'L' scale weapons instead. They cost more, yes, but therefore they should get some downgrades until the 'real' battleship blueprint is reseachred. I can think about less shields to build in, or downgraded energy so you can only equip a part of the weapon slots...something like this.