Expand the max number of bases

[fabianrodrigo2006]

My name is Fabian. I'm playing NMS from more than 1 year. Right now I'm exploring the 255 galaxies. Right now I'm playing of galaxy 95 and I hit the max number of bases. Right now I have 400 bases. I think it's a low maximum. Considering that there are 255 galaxies, I think that the real max limit of bases should be something link 65535 bases (a 4 bit integer).

If it's not possible. Do you have a workarround? Something link, start a new game with another player con the same Stream Account and making a group with my first game and sharing our bases? If so, for example I could have like 10 games sharing all the bases together. Does it make sense?

[fabianrodrigo2006]

Sorry, 65535 is a 2 bytes integer hehe

[Dirak2012]

I didn't knew there was a limit in the number of bases, there is a limit of baseparts per save, however... 16000 parts in total.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

I didn't knew there was a limit in the number of bases, there is a limit of baseparts per save, however... 16000 parts in total.

Yep, I think for a lot of us the limit is so high we don't have to think about it. It's like..450 bases, I think? I don't recall for sure.

Obviously it's low enough that OP does have to think about it though. So I understand his plea.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

I didn't knew there was a limit in the number of bases, there is a limit of baseparts per save, however... 16000 parts in total.

That's only 40 parts per base!!1!

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by fabianrodrigo2006:

If it's not possible. Do you have a workarround? Something link, start a new game with another player con the same Stream Account and making a group with my first game and sharing our bases? If so, for example I could have like 10 games sharing all the bases together. Does it make sense?

The workaround is multiple saves. No other players needed. Why do you need 400 bases all in 1 save?

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by fabianrodrigo2006:

Something link, start a new game with another player con the same Stream Account and making a group with my first game and sharing our bases? If so, for example I could have like 10 games sharing all the bases together. Does it make sense?

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish? As already asked- why 400? Why not 40, or 4?
Not seeing how having more solves any problems and seems like it would just be confusing to have that many. How could you even keep track. It would take a long time just to visit each one for 1 minute each.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by fabianrodrigo2006:

Right now I'm playing of galaxy 95 and I hit the max number of bases. Right now I have 400 bases.

That's actually pretty good. I my first game, I was only able to hit 80 bases before hitting the limit. I think the parts limit in PC is 16000, so just do the arithmatic so you know the max number of bases you can build.

16000/400 = 40 parts per base. The fact you could keep it under 40 parts per base so far is pretty good. Just delete some of your bigger bases and replace them with small ones, as that clears space for you. Also go back and remove any portable items from the landscape like save points and beacons...all of those things subtracts from your construction total, too.

I think my "Basic Base" is 20 to 25 parts, so I should be able to build over 600 bases before I hit the wall.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Rexxer:

I think my "Basic Base" is 20 to 25 parts, so I should be able to build over 600 bases before I hit the wall.

There's a limit of 450 bases regardless of piece count too, unless that changed VERY recently. Confirmed it in August of this year. The freighter base counts as well, making the planetary base limit 449.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Rexxer:

I think my "Basic Base" is 20 to 25 parts, so I should be able to build over 600 bases before I hit the wall.

There's a limit of 450 bases regardless of piece count too, unless that changed VERY recently. Confirmed it in August of this year. The freighter base counts as well, making the planetary base limit 449.

Interesting, that is probably so you don't waste all your game time at a base teleporter scrolling endlessly through too many bases, lol.

[Rexxer]

Actually if you think about it, time spent in management eventually has to be accounted for. For example, let's say you had a limit of 1,000,000 bases. The base teleporter now can list nine bases at a time. So let's say as you scroll through your base list, it takes you one second per group of 9 to browse your bases for the one you want. That means, to browse through 1,000,000 bases it would take you:

1,000,000 / 9 = 111, 111 seconds

111,111 / 60 = 1852 minutes

1852 / 60 = 31 hours

More hours there are in a day.

They could also organize searches better, too, so you don't actually have to scroll through all of them to get to one also. I only bring this up because even with only a few hundred bases it is already getting tedious to scroll through them all.

[NZ.Zero]

I spend all my time near the build limit (except for expeditions) and I'm also getting close to the max number of bases. I've found a few ways to handle it:

(1) reduce your bases. Have multiple resources at one location. Search for minerals at a portal and retire your old mine, that kind of thing.

(2) .. and this is the main one .. export your bases to text files. Using goatfungus editor, backup first.. then if you edit raw JSON and in the first section go to the persistent player bases section then the numbers are your bases. CUT one you want to archive and paste into a text file. I use brackets code manager. Then save the save file and reload and the base will be gone.

Let's be honest, there are some bases that you know you could do better but don't want to lose forever. Those are the ones to remove into text files. You can always bring them back if you need them .

I actually paste them into my kids games .. it's more fun for them to have bases to mess with, but you could just as easy have another game save you paste all your old bases into so you can still easily visit them if you want to.

[fabianrodrigo2006]

I build a small base on every planet I explore and visit. I want to have a whole teleport network also connecting every portal. So, i take almost one year to explore 400 planets hehe.

400 bases per save? What does it means?

Thanks a lot for the responses

[MarStrMind]

Originally posted by fabianrodrigo2006:

I build a small base on every planet I explore and visit. I want to have a whole teleport network also connecting every portal. So, i take almost one year to explore 400 planets hehe.

400 bases per save? What does it means?

Thanks a lot for the responses

Uhm... it means you can have a maximum of 400 bases per save.

[Big_JiLm_39]

I second this. We need at least 5000

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Big_JiLm_39:

I second this. We need at least 5000

Exploring does not require bases... Just sayin'...