[REQ] Reduce Upgrade Times

[atredies]

I just tried to upgrade some battleships, 8 to be exact, at the cost of 0 (was changing some turrets/sidegrade stuff).

I went to make a coffee, did a poop, came back and checked the progress, 8%.

No thank you.

We need a mod to change/customize the upgrade time, it just takes forever late game! I tried to edit FLEET_UPGRADE_TIME_COST_MULT value in defines.lua but changing the value caused my client to crash at the end of the loading bar on game startup.

 

[Zorromorph]

What value(s) did you try? I changed it from 0.25 to 0.1 and didn't have any problems. Of course, I also didn't test that it actually did anything, not having a save at the moment with ships that need upgrading, but ...

 

[atredies]

I tried 0.20 0.5 and 0.1 all crashed the client :/ I wonder where I went wrong.

 

[Zorromorph]

hmm. Perhaps you accidentally deleted a char or something. maybe overwrote something. Anyway I'd suggest trying again and see what results you get.

 

[atredies]

I fixed it using a different text editor, but in my small scale test it didn't have an effect in game. I'll test again with a different fleet, i'm literally timing it to the second.

 

[Zorromorph]

That's unfortunate. I've run into a couple things that unfortunately don't do anything either. I'm not far enough into a game yet to have a big fleet for it to bother me. Emphasis on yet.

 

[atredies]

DERP, have to start a new game, however changing it does work, pity it won't effect my old save, nevermind, It will improve my experience next time I play !

 

[Asuzu]

Upgrade times are obscene.
It took 9 game years to change SENSORS from t2 to t4 on 9 Battleships.
NINE YEARS TO CHANGE A FREAKIN SENSOR. Is the work managed by complete engineer imbeciles???

This is absurd.

 

[hyme]

Upgrade times are obscene.
It took 9 game years to change SENSORS from t2 to t4 on 9 Battleships.
NINE YEARS TO CHANGE A FREAKIN SENSOR. Is the work managed by complete engineer imbeciles???

This is absurd.

Its based on your size of your fleet. If you would have done each battleship one at a time it would have been a lot faster.

 

[hyme]

Upgrade times are obscene.
It took 9 game years to change SENSORS from t2 to t4 on 9 Battleships.
NINE YEARS TO CHANGE A FREAKIN SENSOR. Is the work managed by complete engineer imbeciles???

This is absurd.

sounds like the F-35

 

[ranma100]

With the new 1.10 patch, it only takes a few days to upgrade a fleet now.

 

[graz]

I just tried to upgrade some battleships, 8 to be exact, at the cost of 0 (was changing some turrets/sidegrade stuff).

I went to make a coffee, did a poop, came back and checked the progress, 8%.

No thank you.

We need a mod to change/customize the upgrade time, it just takes forever late game! I tried to edit FLEET_UPGRADE_TIME_COST_MULT value in defines.lua but changing the value caused my client to crash at the end of the loading bar on game startup.

I've edited this with no problems, set mine to variously 0.25, 0.05 and 0.03
It will work with a save game, but not an existing fleet update, cancel the update of the fleet and re-update and see the difference.
(At least that is what I did)

 

[atredies]

Yep I got it sorted out some time ago! Having a blast using my fleets rather than having them laid up refitting one module for 20 years!