anyway to remove the 5 reactor limit ?

[A Terrible Modder]

i have maxed out energy on my ship and i have run into a problem... i can do any genesis missions because i dont have the crew due to the fact that i maxed out all crew cabins, i cant place any more crew cabins to be able to expand the limit. help ?

[Blackpot]

Originally posted by Jubblator:

You adjust the amount of reactors max at the start of the game, when you create the galaxy (its in the settings there somewhere). I think 7 is max you can set tho.

Oh yes, true that!

[Fighting-Priest]

Originally posted by Blackpot:

Originally posted by Jubblator:

You adjust the amount of reactors max at the start of the game, when you create the galaxy (its in the settings there somewhere). I think 7 is max you can set tho.

Oh yes, true that!

You are able to use cheat engine to bypass that limit though.

[Raumschiffo]

Originally posted by Fighting-Priest:

You are able to use cheat engine to bypass that limit though.

Please be aware that the reactor limit has a reason. If you increase the reactor limit and build a lot of stuff, it is possible that the game does not work correctly and a lot of bugs may occur.

[Blackpot]

Originally posted by Raumschiffo:

Originally posted by Fighting-Priest:

You are able to use cheat engine to bypass that limit though.

Please be aware that the reactor limit has a reason. If you increase the reactor limit and build a lot of stuff, it is possible that the game does not work correctly and a lot of bugs may occur.

I was able to build a very huge ship with the 7 reactors, and tbh it is far enough because i could able to build anything i wanted for a 30+ crew. At the end i felt kinda lost tbh, and had to open the map often to see where i am!

[JokerSF]

Are they even supporting this game? We might be stuck with the 7 reactor limit.

[Raumschiffo]

Originally posted by JokerSF:

Are they even supporting this game? We might be stuck with the 7 reactor limit.

The limit has a reason and we won't change it.

[Whiplash]

Originally posted by Raumschiffo:

Originally posted by JokerSF:

Are they even supporting this game? We might be stuck with the 7 reactor limit.

The limit has a reason and we won't change it.

Is it too much to ask what the reason is? That could help us to understand what we should or should not do that may hurt our game functionality.

[ploppo]

Even with the reactor limit you can cheat your energy usage (ie push it down) to basically create mega-ships.

I've built ships with at least 9 farms on the top level. I never noticed any issues with a huge, multi-level, mega-ship.

It's still fun to play the game within the limits of not cheating though. 7 reactors is technically plenty, but it is nice to have infinite energy to just go crazy and build everything you want onto you ship.

[Fighting-Priest]

Originally posted by Whiplash:

Originally posted by Raumschiffo:

The limit has a reason and we won't change it.

Is it too much to ask what the reason is? That could help us to understand what we should or should not do that may hurt our game functionality.

The limit is there because if you go over that limit they game can start to bug out and have issues. I personally believe it's an engine problem and not something the devs can work around. Now like has been said on other post you can you cheat engine to bypass this but you do so at your own risk and any problems you experience from doing this is on you and is no way the fault of the devs.

[ploppo]

7 reactors provide X amount of energy. Technically speaking 1 reactor could do the job of 7 if its output was equivalent to what 7 could achieve. This is set in design.

So, it raises the question as to whether it is it a limit on 7 physical reactors or the energy that 7 reactors produce. Either option has a bypass - technically-speaking.

Of course, there could be no real reason to have more than 7 reactors other than a game design choice to limit the player to design their ships within constraints.

[Raumschiffo]

Originally posted by ploppo:

Of course, there could be no real reason to have more than 7 reactors other than a game design choice to limit the player to design their ships within constraints.

1. AI Pathfinding
2. Performance
3. Memory
4. Orientation on big ships
These reasons are real.

[ploppo]

Originally posted by Raumschiffo:

Originally posted by ploppo:

Of course, there could be no real reason to have more than 7 reactors other than a game design choice to limit the player to design their ships within constraints.

1. AI Pathfinding
2. Performance
3. Memory
4. Orientation on big ships
These reasons are real.

It would be interesting to know how many people would be affected.

I can say in honesty that I never really observed anything untoward with bypassing the power limits and building a huge ship.

I have an i5-9600K, 16GB RAM and a GTX 1660ti which is not exactly a high-end PC.

I would put all of the reactors, then all of the shields, the hyperdrives - 9 or 12 farms on top (whatever the max is that can squeeze onto a single level) - a ton of crew quarters - I would end up running circa 40 crew.

You'd get the same glitches you would ordinarily get - ie bots getting stuck, etc - but nothing that stood out as a definite issue.

I think I last played around 6 months ago.

[ploppo]

The way I did it was by way of a trainer.

I have built my 7 reactors which supply x amount of power and I am using x amount of power which is what the game seems to use to prevent you building more stuff.

The trick was to lower the energy used - ie set it to 0, the game then thinks you can build more stuff and the energy used slowly increased until you max it out - then you just lower it again to build more stuff.

That method of cheating the energy didn't cause me any issues that I noticed. There was no limit or breaking point that I noticed.