Ryat is correct that the AI will handle different tech level fine, however, the hardcoded maximum tech level is 3 so increasing it beyond that will cause problems.

Also, there are different damage application settings for each weapon. I believe they are 'overtime', 'instant', and 'backloaded'.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/363233

this is the forum thread for the limits of Sins

there is no line for Research Limits (we've had it up to 10 in the Distant Stars mod at times and it worked fine)

think Myles is getting abilities mixed up with research

Thanks so much for the replies guys and/or gals This helps me loads!

A few followup questions,ragarding weapons, bank targets and effects.

How does TargetCountPerBank work for lasers, missiles and beams? I changed the TEC battleship to have a TargetCountPerBank of 4, this makes the four beams go at four different targets. However it looks like each beam has the same damage as previous before I buffed it (TargetCountPerBank of 1) But the ingame display shows normal damage, yet stuff dies a lot faster? 

Also does burstCount under weaponeffects affect damage in anyway, or is that just for the graphics purely? What about beams, how does this effect them with/without the targetingcountperbank (dps wise?)

Aha makes sense! Thanks a lot

Yeah I gave Starbases 5 extra bank targets trough the research.  I lost my whole fleet pretty fast   Back to the drawing board.

hmmm, shouldn't be able to give the starbases that many, the max is 4 banks per weapon

lol, some limits when broken just don't give you what you want, always interesting to see what does what when broken

The only thing that would effect performance would be the reduced cooldown as that would mean more effects, but it shouldn't be an issue. The game can handle a max of the 2 gb ram which can be an issue if you increased the fleet size etc.

actually the game does not use more than 2 gigs of ram (even with that fix) it merely becomes satisfied with 2 gigs (having only 2 gigs of ram myself l never dump) which is why with the fix you no longer get the dump but you still get the chugging

unfortunately gruntmaster1 is right, this means there are too many ships in the game, there are ones who are trying to fix this issue and hopefully the devs are as well (though I doubt it will be enough for some people), recommend keeping the size of the fleets low and/or how many opponents you deal with

yeah in the Distant Stars mod, we dropped the trade ship to one per port instead of five, that helped a lot

I'll just put this in this thread, hopefully someone sees it, though not super important

Is it possible to change the time it takes to update shield and hull values to that of antimatter? Currently hull and shields HP update every few seconds (like 5-10?) Wondering if there's something I missed in the entity files that has the update time. Checked everywhere, and I'm thinking that's hardcoded

Those are by how much they restore/repair their shields and hulls. Sadly not what I'm looking for. I'm trying to change the display time it takes to update.

For example, anti mater, if you watch a ship you can see it go up, one, two, three, four.  High rate means this happens faster, but it still counts 1-2-3-4-5-6 etc

For hull and shield, the display is every few seconds, so if they repair lets say 10 hull damage per second, it shows 100 damage repaired, then 10 seconds no change, then 100 again, etc. High rate just makes it repair more, but I want the visual update time to be one second rather then 10 seconds.