ive never seen a number but i think that there must be a limit on how much relays can take off of the charge time. Is there such a limit on how quickly energy can recharge? i will have positron relays today and that takes it down to 2:01, can anyone with over +18 relays post there best recharge time..

the only limit is that you can only have 4x relays on and must maintain over 40 or so energy max. the energy generation cap is the end if the energy tech tree IMO. good luck with your positron relays, they seem to really help speed up energy. having 3x antimater mk4's doesn't hurt either if you need to step away for a few hours.

I have +21's atm. working through the next 4 reactors but takes awhile to see if another relay is on the other side

and there has to be a limit to relays. eventually it will get down too low that energy recharge is instant or every 30 seconds which would be too fast. atm I have my energy recharge less than half the starting 3min (about every 1min 25 sec).

I'm sure at some point the credits and RP's become prohibitively expensive, even in scale with whatever insane rank you achieve. If your energy refresh was only a few seconds then it might seem silly to uninstall relays at every rank... probably not though with how much xp the higher ranks take. Do they improve by +1 instead of +2 eventually?

if you mouse over an item, it will tell you what the limit on your ship is for that type of item

Kuren..i think you misunderstand my question. i understand i can only have 4 of them my question of limit was how many seconds it can be cut down to....from your screen shot....i looks like +21 charge or -1:24 seconds faster is the limit...the benefit you get from further advancements is that they get smaller leaving more room for your big(?) weapons. since Dan says that no one has reached the upper limit of that, it seems like almost all other tiers can keep giong on and on. Thanks a lot...that simple screen shot answered a lot of questions for me as to certain aspects of the game...maybeee you could mouse over that sweet mark 4 engine and show us how big that baby is plz? i dont understand why your relay comes before your colliders mine is always opposite although i have gotten rid of everything just exchange.

size 41 is not too bad. just one of those > all 3 of mine all 3 of mine are 75 space.

Veryyyy NICE thanks Kuren something to look forward to..some day

i believe that once you get above 180 charge (3min) it resets and you start getting 2 energy instead of 1, speculation but thats where I think its headed

well that would suck because wouldn't that mean you get less energy once the timer reset to 3 m? it would make more sense to double it @ the 1.5 m mark. pretty much where Kuren is at. that way he still gets the same energy when the timer resets to 3. so pretty much every time the # of energy has to double. if the charge timer went down to the last few seconds, he would want to keep the timer at 1 second or so do he could get 1 energy a second rather than 2 energy ever 3 minutes.

+24s are Wormhole Relays

this is true.....huh........

That is ALOT of upkeep, mine is only at 3k total. 43 mil for one item?

I reached rank 35 and have 14k upkeep now.

Cores are expensive. Each of my cores is nearly twice as expensive on upkeep as my next most expensive item, and together they comprise almost half of my total ship's upkeep. It's the price you pay if you want to be able to sleep more than 3 hours at a time...

And don't forget when you do get that high in the tree, you (I would hope) be of a level and have enough mining planets that you can afford this. My upkeep atm is 68 million per day (I only have the mark 2's of what Kuren showed atm), but I also make about 400 million per day.

And getting closer by 229 RP per hour!!
i really looking forward for this upgrade @ level 35

1801 research per hour /YUS!

hmmm i really don't want to post my RP per hour lol but about 50% of my total research has probably gone into energy because it IS such a big help.. not so much worried about anything but the relay's atm

I balance my research to all trees, I only keep energy one tier ahead.