How to increase science required?

[Sokar408]

Basically I think I'm clearing the tech tree too fast. Is there any easy way to change the cost of all nodes in the entire tree by X%?

[Vanamonde]

You could do that, or, you could simply not spend ALL the points that you collect.

[Sokar408]

You could do that, or, you could simply not spend ALL the points that you collect.

Uhmm I suppose but it doesn't really answer the question

[celem]

Well, the tree itself is buried somewhere in the gamefiles. I know its possible to alter the tree, but iirc it requires some 3rd-party mod to crack open the bits you want, and I dont know the process.

A workaround for you. In KerbalSpaceProgram/GameData/Squad/Resources you can find ScienceDefs.cfg

This file is notepad editable. It contains a massive amount of spoilers if you havent run through most of the science stuff already, but it also includes (for each 'experiment' entry in the list) a baseValue parameter.

You could drop all the basevalues by a % to devalue the science you collect, this would slow your race through the techtree.

Theres surely a way to change the cost of each node in the tree, maybe someone can chime in with specifics

edit: best back-up the original sciencedefs.cfg incase something goes awry

Edited November 14, 2013 by celem

[Superfluous J]

They specifically made the tech tree to be unmoddable. Which means of course that it took the community an extra day to figure out how to mod it. If that So it's not easy to hack.

Far easier is what was suggested: Don't spend all of your points. I'm only unlocking one tech node per successful mission and having a blast (sometimes literally) doing it. I've got almost 2 grand of science points in the bank and just unlocked the FL-T800 fuel tank.

[Sirrobert]

Check out the Treeloader mod http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/53192-0-22-TreeLoader-Custom-Career-Tech-tree-Loader-1-0

Lets you make your own tree, or use that of someone else. The offered one costs more points

[Sokar408]

Check out the Treeloader mod http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/53192-0-22-TreeLoader-Custom-Career-Tech-tree-Loader-1-0

Lets you make your own tree, or use that of someone else. The offered one costs more points

As far as I can tell this only allows me to load other trees from people who actually have the TreeEdit which isn't avaliable just yet. Am I missing something?

[Superfluous J]

As far as I can tell this only allows me to load other trees from people who actually have the TreeEdit which isn't avaliable just yet. Am I missing something?

Apparently so, but in that thread I found a link to This editor which looks promising.

[Sirrobert]

As far as I can tell this only allows me to load other trees from people who actually have the TreeEdit which isn't avaliable just yet. Am I missing something?

I don't know about that, I just use the Yargnit tree. I'm sure the tool will eventually allow easy edits though