I need help with ship editing

[cim]

It might be that there is a cap on base energy_recharge_rate.

Not that I know of. There are gameplay balance reasons why no core player ship has a rate over 4.5, but there's nothing preventing a higher rate (the Viper Interceptor has 6, for instance)

I've done hex editing before, but here it's hard - there's no comparable data on laser power (the actual strength, so I can search for that hexadecimal numbers, clustered lines with data on various shield strengths etc). Same goes with the recharge rate and a lot of other data... they are all hardcoded in the oolite.exe. Has anyone been fiddling with that?

Laser settings are all hard-coded (there are requests to make it less so, but not done yet), similarly player shield strength is always 128 (+128 for each shield booster fitted). NPCs don't have explicit shields - though there are two OXPs which add them: their shield strength is accounted for (or not) in their energy levels.

[Cody]

I run the 1.76,1.

Update to 1.77 from here - it's the latest version, looks better, and is perfectly stable.

[Old Hand Jameson]

Thank you all for being so helpful, people!

I've gone to 1.77 and it works just fine. Regarding the changes to cargo space etc, I've done them and they work now. Couldn't have made it without your tips ("shift thingy" etc )

The other data I was looking for (shield strength, laser power etc) are hard coded. Oh well...

Thank you!

[Thargoid]

Have a look through my OXP catalogue (links below), some in there may cover a few of your desired changes and tweaks.

[Cody]

Thank you all for being so helpful, people!

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