Edit artillery beam and some more questions...

[_Leguan12_]

I know I wanted to know if I can incrase the upgrade limit (like in Advanced Weapons and shields mod)

[kartoFlane]

1. Is it possible to change the Artillery Beam?

As xlandar said, yes, you can change the artillery. In order to do this, you have to modify the (IIRC) ARTILLERY_FED blueprint located in blueprints.xml.

4. How can I add custom weapons to a ship mod? (superluminal can't pack them into the .ftl file as I see )

You have to add the weapon's blueprint to the blueprints.xml.append in the .ftl file created by the editor.
Sorry about the missing feature, it's meant to prevent mods from appending redundant blueprints :(

I know I wanted to know if I can incrase the upgrade limit (like in Advanced Weapons and shields mod)

You have to modify the appropriate system's blueprint, which is again located in blueprints.xml. The <maxPower> and <upgradeCost> tags are what you're looking for.
However, if you're looking to achieve 100% evasion via upgrades, you're out of luck: upping engines above level 8 (IIRC) causes evasion to drop down to 0.

[xlandar]

expanding on crew, yo change the name of the species, the description, the sprite itself, but not how they work (e.g. engi repair twice as fast).

[_Leguan12_]

I meant how can I add a custom weapon to a Ship .ftl file
Engines: OK so I can only hope that GFX Overdrive can solve my problem when it's finished...
Thanks for the tipp with the artillery beam

[xlandar]

to put a custom weapon into the ship's .ftl file, you have to have a blueprints.xml.append with both the weapon and the ship in it. i haven't done it before some i'm not exactly sure, but it's definitely along the lines of that.

[English Narwhal]

I know I wanted to know if I can incrase the upgrade limit (like in Advanced Weapons and shields mod)

If it has been done in a mod, it is possible.
You are answering your own question.

[_Leguan12_]

I meant how you can change it/if it is "easy" xD