FO Research Question

posted on November 27th, 2014, 2:40 am

In stock A2 the research stations built pods using a sod that is attached to the station so you had to have enough build hardpoints for the number of sods (items you wanted to research.) You couldn't research (build) an item onto a hardpoint that already had something built on it or it would destroy whatever was there before.

FO doesn't use sods for the pods so I'm wondering if I can research more items than I have build hardpoints for as FO does it differently? Thank you in advance.

posted on November 27th, 2014, 3:52 am

FO does use SODs for the pods, they're just mostly empty. It's the same rules as stock. I think you can just list the same hardpoint repeatedly, though.

posted on November 27th, 2014, 4:25 am

Thanks Cabal. Looking in the FO sod folder I see you're correct. They're just named for whatever the research yielded like a weapon or whatever. Some stations I'm using have very few hardpoints so If I can still research 15 items using only a few hardpoints that would be ideal.

posted on November 27th, 2014, 3:54 pm

You have to list the same number (or greater) of hardpoints as pods though even if you reuse them. For example, if you have one hardpoint, hp01, and 6 research topics/pods, you'd put

podHardpoints = "hp01" "hp01" "hp01" "hp01" "hp01" "hp01"