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[berkenkamp25]

So i bought this game a week ago and immediately started editing the settings.json and installing 40 mods

I am now reinstalling due to poor judgement on my part.

P.S. Its hard to learn this game when there are 300+ additional ships and 500+ weapons and nexerelin.

[Mondaymonkey]

Welcome to the forum!

It is nothing strange in what you described. Vanilla itself is pretty complicated and requires decent time to understand all the mechanics.

I suggest you to start a new game with no factions mods and no ships/weapons packs. You can optionally leave Nex and some QoL mods. And a libs, off course.

[Grievous69]

There really should be a warning screen about mods when you first launch the game. The amount of times I've had to explain new players why playing with mods immediately is a bad idea is in triple digits probably by now.

Don't listen to what others are saying here, forget Nexerelin, it's a terrible idea to have your first experience with it. Learn pure vanilla first trust me.

[Mondaymonkey]

I do not wish to be "others are saying here", so some clarification: I do not use Nex by myself and agreed vanilla should be first run. Just do not wish to disturb the wasp's nest with cursed words "remove Nex - it's bad to you".

[SCC]

My best advice is: this isn't Skyrim. You don't need to fix the base game.
For a beginner, I'd recommend only the autosave mod, because the base game doesn't have this functionality.

I do not wish to be "others are saying here", so some clarification: I do not use Nex by myself and agreed vanilla should be first run. Just do not wish to disturb the wasp's nest with cursed words "remove Nex - it's bad to you".

Nex is fine, but it has this annoying tendency to just kill factions off while you aren't looking, so now you have to start over or give a colony to that faction and then babysit it, until they can survive on their own.

[Mondaymonkey]

Nex is fine

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[intrinsic_parity]

I think Nex is better left for a later run. There's a lot of new ways to get screwed by diplomatic events and invasions and stuff, and a lot of new stuff to manage with your faction. It just adds a lot of complexity for a first time player IMO.

[DubTre6]

Nex is fine

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Nothing to see here. Nex is flawless and every player should use it 

[berkenkamp25]

Nex isn't my problem, i edited the *** out of the settings file.

I think editing the settings is what did it.

if theres a clean settings.json around id gladly replace mine with it.

Anyway its a fun game regardless.

[Schwartz]

Some settings are ripe for changing and others cause issues. Here is my small personal settings mod:

{
   "enableUIStaticNoise":false,
   "enableShipExplosionWhiteout":false,
   
   "minCombatZoom":1.0,
   "maxCombatZoom":2.0,
   
   "playerMaxLevel":99,

   "minPirateBases":0,
   "maxPirateBases":2,
   
   "minLPBases":0,
   "maxLPBases":2,
   
   "processMessagesWhileSavingOrLoading":false,
}

That last setting in particular helps with mouse clicks causing game crashes while the game is busy saving.
The # of bases arguably makes the game a little easier; at least the pirate raid part of it. Since LP sabotage currently is bugged, LP bases are not as much a priority target.

I would also recommend you play the vanilla game for a while and get deep into it. There's a lot of stuff to do there, mods are really just for weapon and ship variety.

When you do add mods, I recommend sticking to a curated minimum like: Blackrock Driveyards, Dassault-Mikoyan, Diable Avionics, Interstellar Imperium, Shadowyards, Ship & Weapon Pack, Starship Legends, Tiandong Heavy Industries, Underworld. As well as any utility mods you might want.

[Mondaymonkey]

"playerMaxLevel":99,

Why not 103?

[Megas]

Nex isn't my problem, i edited the *** out of the settings file.

I think editing the settings is what did it.

if theres a clean settings.json around id gladly replace mine with it.

Anyway its a fun game regardless.

This is why some of the settings could be moved to in-game settings, like bigger map size (500 may not be big enough) or game speed (if not for this, I probably would uninstall the game for combat being agonizingly slow).  Even 2f is a little on the slow side.  2.5f or 3f are ideal, but there are side-effects when game speed is faster than 2f.  2f is still slower than normal speed of other space games.

Combat speed multiplier is the only thing I edit from settings.json.  I really do not want to edit the settings.json at all if I can help it.

[Schwartz]

"playerMaxLevel":99,

Why not 103?

Because it takes forever to even get to level 80. The highest I ever managed to reach was 76.

[Mondaymonkey]

The highest I ever managed to reach was 76.

Believe me or not, so am I.

[Cyan Leader]

The levels get exponentially much harder to obtain, to the point that there is a mod called SkilledUp to fix that.