How Many Is Too Many Mods???

[Evanitis]

13. And I deserve a cookie for giving an actual number.

Not that I'm superstitious, I just checked that my main KSP install has 12 mods. That was the point when I decided to make separate KSP installs for different challenges.

[nalfz]

64bit is a hell of a drug

I've got to the point where I've had to uninstall mods, not because I ran out of ram but because it took forever to find any parts

[Bev7787]

When your game crashes every 30 MINUTES

[ryan234abc]

I have just chatterer and hyperedit installed. I'd say however many you want until your game crashes at any point, more than once. I used to have amazing texture packs and Kerbinside, but my game crashed every 15 mins and upon loading/saving/exiting.

[cantab]

It depends. A hundred mods together could be no problem, while one other mod by itself could render the game hopelessly unstable or underperforming.

[Glaran K'erman]

I have loved every single response so far lol

[Goddess Bhavani]

Idk how many mods I run but it definitely depends on my mood and the time of the month.... phase of the outer planets, whatever.

[supay]

145 mods at the moment. 64 bit Linux on an old Core 2 Quad 6600 with an Nvidia 560ti. It can chug sometimes but it is surprisingly stable.

[jackboy900]

Not exactly related but I've noticed that any game with a sizeable moddin community will have a meme of "Mod it till it breaks" that appears frequently. An intresting observation of the human condition (species gamerus moddicus​)

[John FX]

The amount you need to get the game you want or when it crashes too often whichever is smaller.

[PB666]

I should have known responses would get philosophical near-instantaneously when bringing up modding lol.

. . . . . .atever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth for we didn't weave . . . . . .

If you give rats and monkeys lit cigarettes what will they do? How about a teenager a completely unrestricted smartphone. So conceptually you are offering human a thing, a thing that they like to possess, then ask them how much of it they want to possess. The obvious answer is they will want to possess that thing until it begins to harm them in someway. Then you can look up venerable old Indian chief quotes and reflect on the philosophy, as if you had to look up something that was obvious.

[Robotengineer]

Too many mods is when you spend all of your time scrolling through the VAB/SPH sidebar looking for the one part you need amongst the hundreds of parts that you don't need, never have needed and never will.

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Three Mods. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number of mods thou shalt install, and the number of installed mods shall be three. Four shalt thou not install, nor either install thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to install three. Five is right out. Once mod number three, being the third mod, be installed, then, starteth thou game, and launcheth thine little green men into space.

Thou three mods must be thee following: Kerbal Engineer Redux, Kerbal Alarm Clock and Module Manager. No moar, no less.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

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Thou three mods must be thee following: Kerbal Engineer Redux, Kerbal Alarm Clock and Module Manager. No moar, no less.

I don't think module manager is required for KAC or KER, I suggest: Trajectories.

[RyanRising]

∞+1.

Or Astronomer's Visual Pack on 32bit, or 0 on Mac if you run into the crashing problem. Take your pick.

[Motokid600]

Once it starts taking too much time to search for parts.

[JetJaguar]

Keep adding mods until the game crashes, then subtract one.

[oversoul]

I am running 30 without ATM and without any enviro mods nor any planetary/system mods.

When KSP gets loaded, mem print is at about 2.7GB. I run for about 8 hours before leaks crash it.

[DoToH]

"Too many mods"? There is no such thing. I only know about "not enough RAM"

[The Yellow Dart]

I am allergic to instability. I had 8 or 9 until recently. Then I had 2 crashes in a row, so now I have 5.

[TimePeriod]

1 or 2 mods is enough for me, engineer and asteroid day.

[Motokid600]

When 16gb of ram is actually not enough.

[Captain Sierra]

When your map view looks like this.

[windows_x_seven]

Here. Have an equation.

# of Mods = RAM/sqrt Kraken

[Curveball Anders]

5

My RAM can hold more, but I haven't found any more that worth installing

// anders

[Glaran K'erman]

When your map view looks like this.

http://i.imgur.com/qMr96yW.png

Haha yea that's a fairly insane system. What the Keck (telescope) is that blue planet doing going so close to Kerbol! Seriously though what planet is that...

# of Mods = RAM/sqrt Kraken

# of Mods = RAM/Kraken², common mistake

Edited August 6, 2015 by Glaran K'erman