Max size in tons of the ship/station designer

Player Questions
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I want to make a giant station but don’t know what the max size of a station I can build is

Anyone know?

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My guess would be whatever the numerical limit is of the data type the game uses to store tonnage.

Dunno if you’d even be able to move such a thing (or build it, for that matter), but you could design it.

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Oh you mean like the database limit?

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C# Has a 28 or 29 signifigant digits, I think for ship types there is a decimal value hidden away or of one or 2 places , and there may be a character reserved for +/-. So if it is a decimal value the maximum may be 9,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999, or maybe 3 more digits than that or about 12 orders of magnitude more than the death star 2. Completely unbuildable of course and getting close to that could break some other values if operations are being performed. But it depends on the data type and databse as datatypes are not consistent between systems

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Worst-case scenario, I believe Aurora uses 32-bit integers which have a limit of a bit more than 2 billion, so that’s a a safe assumption for a lower limit.

However, since tonnage is computed to a few decimal places, I think the limit is more likely that of the C# decimal type which is as other posters have said far larger.

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I’ve made Honorverse SuperDreads before, so 8 million tons is easily doable.

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What did that design look like?

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Something like:

80 Size 20 ASM Launchers
12 35 cm Lasers
38 30 cm Lasers
42 Particle Beams (Grasers)
9 Particle Lances (Big Graser)
72 Size 1 AMM Launchers
76 Gauss Turrets

about 10k ASM, 100k AMM, plus 8 Pinnaces.

Shields, Armour, etc.

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