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• Return To Terra Event Arc With Extended Lore: Epic finale of coming back to ancient Terran home-world.
• Proper Sol System: All Planets properly aligned
• Exclusive Terran Gov. Type: Terran Republic
• Improved Galaxy Creation: No more Yellow stars with no planets
• Fleet Star-bases: 4 diff Fleet Star-bases that can be build on fuel sources with mining engine.
• Flagship: Designate a Flagship
• Corporate Navy: Private sector builds Escorts, Frigates & Destroyers
• More Terran Stations & Ships & Tech
• Tough Merchant Navy: Terran freighters have no weapons but +1 defence slot
• Terran Up-gradable Heavy Ship Classes: +armor,+range,+firepower but -speed,-manoeuvrability,-countermeasures
• New Terran Tech to be be found at Sol System
• More Shields, Reactors & Engines for all
• Fully Completed Race Specific Tech Branches
• No Tech Stealing
• No Independents from main races
• AI Better Planet Defences
• More Powerful AI Races
• Shakturi With Their Own Exclusive Weapons, Shields & Reactors
• Better Garrisons: Races maintain more troops on their planets
• Toned down FTL speed bringing back strategic aspect of earlier game versions
• Limited repeatable techs following preservation of energy law and ever increase in cost with every iteration
• Too Much To List All

ChrisGb wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 5:32 pm CONQUEST - TERRAN FRONTIER WARS: RETURN TO TERRA (Human Faction DLC Campaign)
NEED ALL DLC INSTALLED

This has become far bigger than I every had in mind - and it took way more guts and will than I expected!

Conquest:Terran Frontier Wars - Return to Terra is a custom build Human campaign that adds a real proper Sol-System to the Galaxy, 120+ Research Projects split among all races, 30+ new events, 1 custom Government, 36+ new components, 10+ new ship types, 6+ Planetary Facilities, 6+ new Stations, 1 new creature type, 9 new Orb Types, a new ressource and 13 troops and almost all race specific components have additional levels to them.

AI races a considerably stronger this time around and the player is provided with a fair amount of tools and roleplay elements to help create a sense of achievement and a memorable game experience.

It is also the only Distant Worlds 2 mod as of today to actively change something important in the static Galaxy after its creation during regular gameplay.
Its also the only Mod (as of time of release) to add proper story events to the game! Events that lead to the Return to Terra with extended lore and some discoveries!

CORE FEATURES INCLUDE:

• Return To Terra Event Arc With Extended Lore: Epic finale of coming back to ancient Terran home-world.
• Proper Sol System: All Planets properly aligned
• Exclusive Terran Gov. Type: Terran Republic
• Improved Galaxy Creation: No more Yellow stars with no planets
• Fleet Star-bases: 4 diff Fleet Star-bases that can be build on fuel sources with mining engine.
• Flagship: Designate a Flagship
• Corporate Navy: Private sector builds Escorts, Frigates & Destroyers
• More Terran Stations & Ships & Tech
• Tough Merchant Navy: Terran freighters have no weapons but +1 defence slot
• Terran Up-gradable Heavy Ship Classes: +armor,+range,+firepower but -speed,-manoeuvrability,-countermeasures
• New Terran Tech to be be found at Sol System
• More Shields, Reactors & Engines for all
• Fully Completed Race Specific Tech Branches
• No Tech Stealing
• No Independents from main races
• AI Better Planet Defences
• More Powerful AI Races
• Shakturi With Their Own Exclusive Weapons, Shields & Reactors
• Better Garrisons: Races maintain more troops on their planets
• Toned down FTL speed bringing back strategic aspect of earlier game versions
• Limited repeatable techs following preservation of energy law and ever increase in cost with every iteration
• Too Much To List All

ALL INGAME FACTIONS ARE ACCESSIBLE THRU THE GAME EDITOR - INCLUDING THE SHAKTURI - PLEASE USE ONLY FOR DEBUGGING OR BALANCE REASONS AND TO GIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT FACTION EVOLUTION DURING THE GAME - DO NOT TOUCH OR MANIPULATE OBJETCS WITH EVENTS ATTACHED IN THE EDITOR AS THEY MAY NOT FIRE ANYMORE ![/color][/b][/u]

THERE IS NO WAY I COULD POST ALL THE NEW MECHANICS AND FEATURE HERE SO PLEASE DOWLOAD THE MANUAL AND READ THRU IT

READ THE MANUAL BEFORE PLAYING - SERIOUS !
Download proper 28 page PDF manual here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12My02X ... sp=sharing


Download, unzip, drop in mods folder and activate.

Airbourne wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 9:07 am I have downloaded Return to Terra and played a little. Enjoying it so far. I am particularly delighted to be able to control mining ships.

dorianrandall93 wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 4:41 am Thank you for putting in the effort to make this and share it, especially the PDF. I appreciate your effort!

fruitgnome wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:44 pm And if you find an issue you have to start a new game.

fruitgnome wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:44 pm And if you find an issue you have to start a new game.

DonH58 wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:59 pm Nice work! Early into the mod and no issues.

Airbourne wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:02 pm I am fascinated by controlling mining ships and would like to use it in the vanilla game too. I have changed governments.xml to permit this for some governments but that does not seem to do the trick. Can you tell me what I am missing?

Airbourne wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 2:27 pm Yes I know that and have started a new game several times but it makes no difference: mining ships remain stubbornly independent. If making that change to one xml file is all that is needed then I must have made a mistake somewhere else, somehow.

1.3.0.3v42 – previously unmentioned feature
Consistent renaming of components so they would mostly appear next to each other in the shipbuilder
Iterations labelled like:
S, M, L, XL for size or volume
MK-I, MK-II-MK-III and MK-IV or I, II, III for model/technology generation
Evo-1, Evo-2, Evo-3 for development generation

1.3.0.3.v47 – 06.08.2025
Mortalen Suitability – observed Mortalen expansion almost always lackluster
Sandy Desert +5 = +15
Rocky Desert +5 = +35
Desert Savanna +5 = +30

Nova Missile – now somewhat useful?
Lvl 1 Range +2000 = 7080
Lvl 2 Range +2080 = 9080
WeaponVolleyAmount +1 = 2
WeaponVolleyFireRate -0.75 = 0.25

Terran Republic Government – help avoid character drain
LeaderReplacementTypicalPeriod +4 yrs. = 12 yrs.

Plagues – Changed dynamic of plagues
Plagues have slightly decreased mortality to account for lower pop growth
Their spread chance has been reduced by 20%
Their spread range has been reduced by 50.000.000 to 200.000.000 & 250.000.000
They now have a minimum interval to occur that is equal to MinTime + MaxTime / 4 =
Example: Dekara Virus – MinTime = 2yrs MaxTime = 4 yrs = 6yrs/4 = 1.5 yrs
However, their random initiation chance has been increased x10.

Gov Biases - Fixed some errors in custom govs.

1.3.1.1.v5 – 17.08.2025

Rail Guns - medium rail guns could not be researched by Human
Re-enabled medium rail guns as some players prefer them over Hail Cannons for their own reasons.

Independents – too easy targets for conquer and initiate a “super faction” that make the game less interesting
No longer provide race bonus to their conquerors and all 4 are now resistant/rebellious to assimilation.

Missiles & Torpedo’s
Ships firing large salvos of Missiles or low ROF Torpedo’s at fighters wasting firepower.
Missiles & Torpedo’s have their PD ability removed, including race specific Missiles & Torpedo’s if applicable.

Exploration Ships
Terran Exploration ships cannot equip Long Range Sensors. No more Long-Range Sensor spam.
For Deep Space Recon need use Recon Cruiser now.

Command Cruisers
2,5% bigger hull to account for Fleet Modules, higher resource and money cost, now with real command ship bonus to Scan Range/Scan Evasion/Scan Focus.

Planetary Facility – Solar Sector Administration Complex
Can only be built on Terra. Increase max Influence cap, Bonus to Influence rate, Facility build speed & maintenance,
Colony Corruption Reduction, Happiness & Development- Corruption Reduction Range: 2M = Sol System

New Consul elected
Now has a 50% of a positive trait, Character dismissal chance from 10% down to 5%.

Galactic Administration Megalopolis
ColonyCorruptionReductionProjectionRange from 2000M (Galaxy size) down to 500M (more plausible)

Mining Stations
No more multiple mining engines on Mining Station except for XL (can equip one of each L + M mining engines)

1.3.1.1.v7 – 23.08.2025
Terran Suitability
Added Terran suitability modifier for Gaia Type Continental

Decommission Mars Shipyard – Removed.

Feudalism
Removed for AI races
No more weak AI races by Civil War.

Plagues
Added bonus to Plague Curing & Containment to all AI races

1.3.1.1.v8 – 28.08.2025
Assimilation Rate
All Races Assimilation rates have been reduced considerably.

Terran Name Pool
Added 100 names and surnames to the character name pool.