Interceptor Tech Slots

[gNg]

I can't increase my A-class interceptor's tech slots past 26 and the Wiki says the maximum is 28 even for an S-class. Is that right? Bit disappointing if it is.

[wkitty42]

the wiki may be wrong...
the max slots are 60 tech and 120 cargo but ship types have further restrictions on those and may not achieve the full max... there may also have some RNG in the limiting factor...

yesterday i upgraded my Sentinel Starship to S-Class and maxed its tech and cargo slots by using the starship Storage Augmentation modules at the ship modification terminal on a space station... it hit the 60/120 max... i'm glad i had just enough of those modules... they're not so easy to farm...

[gNg]

Strange...I had no problem with cargo slots, but it wouldn't let me buy or use a module to get tech slots. I saved and reloaded a couple of times in case it was a glitch but it made no difference.

Maybe I just got a turkey?

[wkitty42]

you have to click on the tech area in a blank slot for the adder to move there... then you can add tech slots until they run out or a limit is reached...

[Jaggid Edje]

You are selecting one of the NOT unlocked slots to try to add more, right? Take a screenshot at the upgrade station where you are selecting one of those slots to show us what is happening, if you are saying it won't let you select them.

This sounds like user error to me, and the screenshot will help troubleshoot. I know you know the game well enough not to make common mistakes, but, you know...it happens. :)

My best guess is you are dealing with the situation where the entire left-most column is not unlocked, which means it's not showing and instead it appears like you have 3 slots on the right side to unlock. Except you don't. You have to unlock the one single slot that is NOT on the far right side to get the left column to show when that happens.

BTW, the 28 on the wiki is NOT maximum slots that you can unlock. It's the maximum you will find the ships with already-unlocked. The tech maximums are much higher than that in terms of what you can unlock once you own the ship. That's true for those values for all ship types on the wiki.

@wkitty42 is right that it's 60 for an S-class. I believe it is 50 for a A-Class. I checked the game files after the interceptor update dropped and the Interceptors have the same slot maximums as Haulers (120 cargo, 60 tech for S-class).

[gNg]

I can't get a screenshot with F12 for some reason, but you were basically right, JE. The weird part though, was that the entire LH column showed cogwheel icons in the corner of each slot as if they had already been opened and I'd even installed tech in them, but when I clicked on them, they flashed and allowed me to use modules on them.

Once I'd opened them all, another column on the left opened up, just as you described.

I'd prefer to think of it as a glitch, rather than an attack of noobiness on my part, but whichever it was, thank you for helping me sort it out!

Thanks also, for clarifying the maximum slot thing. It didn't seem to make much as I (mis)understood it.

[Jaggid Edje]

Yes, it absolutely is a glitch. You aren't wrong about that. It only happens when that entire column is not yet unlocked and happens on both starships and multi-tools. I've reported it as a glitch to the Zendesk.

Glad you got it sorted!

[♛E.C.K.S.♛]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Yes, it absolutely is a glitch. You aren't wrong about that. It only happens when that entire column is not yet unlocked and happens on both starships and multi-tools. I've reported it as a glitch to the Zendesk.

Glad you got it sorted!

I know its too late for this but unlike him I don't have the cogwheel and I can't even click any part of the tech mod storage..augmentation will only result to more cargo spaces even though its still just 6x3 spaces on the tech modules

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by ♛E.C.K.S.♛:

I know its too late for this but unlike him I don't have the cogwheel and I can't even click any part of the tech mod storage..augmentation will only result to more cargo spaces even though its still just 6x3 spaces on the tech modules

yes, this is a known weirdness... when you completely fill out the cargo slots, the next augment slots will be in the tech area... i had a method for moving up there into the tech slots without the expansion cog wheels but i haven't done it in quite some time so i don't recall how i was doing it :(

[gNg]

Just in case you're suffering from the same problem I had (and have had again since), you need to move or uninstall any tech you have in the first column on the left and you may see that one of those slots shows as unopened, even though you were able to install something there. Once you unlock that slot, a new column that was previously hidden on the left will open up and you can then carry on unlocking tech slots as normal.