Powershell script that generates a mod to scale X4 module build time

script.ps1

$diff = New-Object System.Xml.XmlDocument
$diff.AppendChild($diff.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", $null))

$diffRoot = $diff.CreateElement("diff")
$diff.AppendChild($diffRoot)

$inputFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Temp\X4" -Filter "wares.xml" -Recurse

foreach ($file in $inputFiles) {
    [xml]$xml = Get-Content $file.FullName

    foreach ($node in $xml.SelectNodes("//ware[@id]")) {
        if ($node.id.StartsWith("module_")) {
            foreach ($production in $node.production) {
                $sel = "/wares/ware[@id='$($node.id)']/production[@method='$($production.method)']/@time"
                $content = 10 + [int]($production.time / 10)

                $replace = $diff.CreateElement("replace")
                $replace.SetAttribute("sel", $sel)
                $replace.InnerText = $content.ToString()

                $diffRoot.AppendChild($replace)
            }
        }
    }
}

$diff.Save("C:\temp\diff.xml")

Extract all X4 content (including dlcs) to C:\Temp\X4 and then run it to generate the new patch xml.