Just got on and read up on that, sorry - I was under the impression that based on your description, you modified it that way lol. Anyways, like I said, the guys like the mod set, keep up the good work sir.

1.066 SE patch claims to have fixed the cargo ships not despawning so it was a bug in SE not this mod.

Unfortunately now we're probably back to the situation where they despawn too quickly. I wish it was a configurable parameter but that's a topic for a different forum.

baah can't edit.

With some mods and tweaks everything is perfectly balanced for a semi-hardcore survival/exploration map - in that respect this mod is perfect while allowing us a scifi feel moreso in the future.

We have built a base and a Capital ship that's under constant retrofit (the base all of a sudden was attacked heavily and lost - capital ship got away) and this mod is great. Between surviving asteroids and raid fleets it's quite litteraly like Battlestar Galactica, as we run, mine, fight and so forth. The ship is actually almost constantly at 80% integrity with all the constant damage - we only have a 3 man crew atm. However my one complaint is lack of despawn. While I may have high end hardware, people that play with me do not. Once we get around to 40 floating capital ships, the lag gets bad even for me. Of course, the fix is SE toolbox. I was wondering, however, if you could release a version of this mod where despawns do happen. For us, it would be amazing, and not require restarts every 3 hours :D Really it's a question of having the same product with a slight tweak.

I think cargo ships need not to spawn except they are out of the world.
And I recommended to avoid install Invader fleet while you don't have fleet having high fire power that is enough to destroy Invaders', because they are too big threat for miners.

..I tested search range limitation but it doesn't work well.

There's some evidence that the cargo ships never despawning is actually a bug in SE after the last patch and not this mod.

This does seem to be working, maybe a bit too well. I've noticed my game slowing down so I loaded SETools and took a look. I have a lot of cargo ships in game. Some of them 256K Km away. Cargo ships just keep on traveling, they never despawn. There's about 20 of them now from 100K to 250K Km out. The invader ships are behaving properly and staying around me but the straight flying generic cargo ships just keep on flying forever.

As a work around I can just periodically delete them from the game with SETools but is there anyway you can force them to despawn once they get say 100Km away ?

If you were in exploration mode, visit new area. then new exploration ships will spawn.
If not, use another one.

i have a small problem. ive been playing for over 50 mins and all that spawns are the stock cargo ships. i have the mods required for this downloaded and active, as well as this one. is there something else i must do?

hmm, ok, I know It need a way to change parameters.

I've been using this and it seems to work. I've been playing on an exploration unlimited size world and invaders seem to spawn near(ish) me and navigate toward me. They also seem to stick around for quite a while. I have seen some despawn mysteriously but many stuck around long past the normal cargo spawn time.

If you can figure out a way to make discovered exploration ships turn on and start acting as invaders once you get within 5Km or so that would be very very cool. My guess it would expose massive problems with peoples exploration ship builds (no ammo, no uranium, badly designed rotors etc).