Model G is Elite!

REQUIRES TERRAN ARMADA AND THE FREE LANES UPDATE

Model G is Elite brings Model G up to higher companion standards.

Part 3 in the Elite Crew is Elite series, this one is dedicated solely to Model G from the Terran Armada DLC (as Delta is the only other companion from that DLC, and I have no plans to improve its stats for various).

Model G has the hardest threshold of an Elite Crewmember to hit. First, G has limited ground combat ability, only able to headbutt enemies in the shin for minimal damage. This means, Model G needs to have its skills upgraded to provide serious passive bonuses to make it worth keeping around.

Model G now has the following skills:

Ship Engineering 4 - (Up from Rank 2), Model G will now serve a full blown engineer to the crew, perfect for low-crew/small ship set ups. Ship system repair is now 20% faster, up from 10%.

Outpost Engineering 2 - (Unchanged from default), G can help speed up production but this is clearly not its wheelhouse.

Scavenging - (Unchanged from Default due to no higher rank for the companion version of this trait.)

Astrodynamics 4 - (NEW!) Model G emulates another robot from somewhere far, far away from the settled systems by now doing Astrodynamics calculations for the player while on the crew. Grav jumps now calculate 30% faster and use 30% less fuel.

Piloting 4 - (NEW!) Model G can help regulate the ship's engines to get more out of them! Ship top speed is now increased by 30%.

Missile Weapon Systems 3 - (NEW!) Missiles need the most love of the ship weapon types by the virtue of being slow reloading, high dmg dealers. Awesome, but impractical. Model G will now help with that by optimizing your ship's missile systems. (NOTE: Missile Weapons Systems skill DOES NOT affect Torpedoes)

In addition, Model G, while not having the leadership skill, WILL ADD A CREW SLOT FOR ITSELF WHEN JOINING THE SHIP akin to Sarah Morgan. You rescued it, no reason to ever leave your buddy behind! Now you don't have to!!

FAQs:

Why does Model G get so many bonus skills?

Model G had the hard problem of being adorable but effectively a low tier crewmember, due to its inability to fight as a companion and its skills are fairly common amongst crew. Lin and Heller outrank it on Outpost Engineering, and Raphael and Omari outrank it on Ship Engineering. As a result, Model G needed more skills to compensate for its low overall usability.

I installed the mod, but Model G still has its default skills!!

Skills are baked in the moment they spawn. If you entered The Well at any point, Model G spawned and his skills were set to his vanilla defaults. You can fix this one of three ways. 1) Start a new save file. 2) Go through the Unity. 3) [PC ONLY] Use Console Commands to Disable then Enable the Model G to reset the character.

Why are you not doing Delta?

Delta fits neatly as a full fledged companion. not an elite crewmember. While his traits are on the lower side, he is lethal in combat, and has very large story, basically being the face of Terran Armada. Plus, on a story level, Delta hates us. Why would it help us? Absolutely in character that it is lazing about onboard after the Terrans are defeated.

Muria Elite when?

Sadly, due to how Muria was implemented meant the changes I usually make are much harder to do without going into serious coding that I dont feel comfortable doing (I'm not here to crash your games!), so as a result, Muria will be staying as is.