you could always dig into the gameplay.constants and up the fleet multiplier. Change bold values : small to 2.0, normal to 4.0, large to 8.0 and you will have that massive fleet size. 

    fleetSupplyData-Small
        fleetSupplyScalar 1.0
    fleetSupplyData-Normal
        fleetSupplyScalar 1.5
    fleetSupplyData-Large
        fleetSupplyScalar 2.00

this is the easy way that doesn't involve editing individual maxslot/maxship research items. 

If you change anything, Checksum will change meaning you can't multiplayer because your version differs from others.

Note if you want it to work with the Mad Scientists Mod you should change its gameplay.constants (if it has one), only make another mod if it doesn't.

^Changed the constant and game runs fine no matter which mod i tried it with, but yar cap ship slots don't increase alas.

Any easy way to remedy this? Or I could just edit the research files as before, but problem is it then seems to clash with quite a few mods (mad scientist included) and result in those cases where I get killed for no apparent reason (and reloading doesnt fix it).

just checked the ms2.5 entrenchment's cap ship count and it is stock levels of 1+1+1+2+2+2+3+3, and the files are the standard names.

harpo

Back and had some awesome mega games thanks to ya all ^^

Editing the constant file stopped working randomly for some reason, so had to edit the research files to allow for higher limits and it works fine now. Also should note that GoaFan was right in that simply copypasting research (before I used to have a vanilla entrenchment folder from which id edit changes then paste them in relevant mod) into the mod doesn't work, you gotta edit the files from the mod itself.

Yeah i know that is common sense now that I said it ><

Anyways mad scientist runs great with these changes, thanks to everyone for your help!

I'm loathe to make another thread so want to ask another question if you all don't mind:

Regarding changing maximum level cap for capital ships. Saw that you could add a 5th ability so changed capital ships a bit in that they got 4 main abilities and 1 passive ability (since 5th ability doesnt seem to be selectable for some reason).

Tried raising max level cap in the constant file to 13 to compensate (with views to trying to raise the level cap to 20 and even add a few more levels to abilities) but changes doesn't seem to happen in game.

Eventually I'd like to also add levelling to frigates and cruisers but for now,  trying to sort it out for capital ships as should be easier to add levels for them then for frigates.

Hope this idea is feasible, i'd assume if it was there would been a mod for that already but only ever found 1 message on this topic where the user confirmed that editing the constant file doesn't do anything and the level cap might be hard coded.

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L10 is the max for all capitals and iirc capital abilities can only go to a max of three levels.

You can make leveling frigates like the [FrigateCombatTurret.entity] which are spawned by ability.  They will have stats at Levels 0, 1, 2 according to what level the spawning ability is at.

To make the Frigate Combat Turret move like a ship instead of sitting in space, you change the following:

maxAccelerationLinear 0.000000
maxAccelerationStrafe 0.000000
maxDecelerationLinear 500.000000
maxAccelerationAngular 3.000000
maxDecelerationAngular 9.999996
maxSpeedLinear -1.000000
maxRollRate 2.000000
maxRollAngle 35.000000

to:

maxAccelerationLinear 200.000000
maxAccelerationStrafe 100.000000

maxSpeedLinear 50.000000

now you have a spawned/deployable missile turret that moves and can phase jump with fleet -nifty, eh?

To make a leveling Kodiak, you would need to copy the entity file, restructure it like the combat turret, and create an ability that deploys the leveling Kodiak and Levels to 3 instead of 1.  As Capital ability levels, the spawned Kodiak MK2's stats change accordingly.

Of course, to edit the file you need the reference data converted from BIN to TXT.  Files do work in game as TXT.  Great for modding.

We rotten, arrogant bastages involved with 7 Deadly Sins have a few leveling frigates that are spawned by ability.  Another modder has tons of ships that are spawned by ability, but again -these are ability spawned ships, not ships built by the frigate factory.

This is a fun way to have a "Builder" capitalship that has 3 abilities that deploy 3 different ships that level as the ability does.  If the spawning ability improves from L1 to L2, the ships deployed when ability was L1 don't suddenly improve, but those ships deployed when spawning ability is L2 are now better than those spawned before.

Cheers Semaz for the tips, gives me ideas for cap ships being able to deploy escorts ^^