nah, this is not predicting the end of the world, it was more like telling what i have found out so far and asking if anyone maybe was able to not only change values

Of course i'm also a little disappointed that nothing i tried to do worked and it looked a lot like a limitation in the game. <<< Again, this may be totally wrong.

Yeah, this is only a partial set. I'm hoping for the ability to mod AI, because I don't think you can really do that right now (besides those few variables for personality). I think we have to wait and see.

Is there any scripting engine visible through the editing of the files at this moment? Really this would be something you need to do what you want. Each time a planet is acquired or lost, you have a script that runs and sets the available ship count for the player.

ok i exactly tried "floatBonus:..."
but: if you look at the planetbonus files, you will see, that all files have exactly the same content, only the values are different, which makes it highly likely, that the parameters of the planet bonuses are fixed and only their values can change. So of course you can make new planetbonuses, but they are limited to a variation of what is already availible and not of something new which wasn't thought of by the game developers.

I also don't see how "floatBonus:AdditiveShipMaxSlots 10" can work, unless you know that the variable "AdditiveShipMaxSlots" exists and can be called or modified. Well, i guess i have to wait until some kind of documentation on how the .entity files really work is released. It may be possible that adding the prefix "Additive" to a variable tells the game, that it should increment it by the following value, but somehow i doubt that. And well, your example was among the various things i already tried and it does not work...

Fair enough, was worth a shot. You've got me really interested now now