A player posts a screenshot of their setup wondering if they have good stats, damage, etc. and another user posts a picture in response with absolutely huge damage numbers. They say something like “That’s nothing, check this out” … but what they aren’t saying is either “I play on easy mode and my enemy strength is set to Weak” or “I save edit ships but let’s pretend this mediocre setup with only S class upgrades gets ridiculous damage and isn’t save edited.” We see this too often on Reddit. Losers who try to deceive new players with inflated numbers for the purpose of ego farming.

135k DPS is the max limit for a perfect fighter with 4 squared SC layout on “Normal” enemy strength (and Fighters have the highest damage stats). Anything above 135k is on a “Weak” combat setting or save edited ……. or is a living ship with sentinel tech inside (which can be done by vanilla players and does legitimately get stupid high damage from 500k to 1+million DPS; that’s a special case and obvious to spot though)

With a save editor like nomnom or goatfungus, while you can’t change the stats for upgrades, you can change the base stats for any ship or multitool to whatever you want. That is how people like the one who posted the above photo attempt to trick new players and produce an awe-like “How did you get that?” response … they will almost never tell you the truth because admitting to inflating their numbers with a few key strokes or showing a save edited ship with 12 million DPS just annoys vanilla players. They don’t want annoyance, they want your envy and attention so they make their stats just out of the normal player’s reach, post a screenshot for bait ,and sit back to fish for pleasing reactions. They’re not amazing and they didn’t find some Holy Grail ship. They just use software that someone actually amazing created.

Don’t believe me? Challenge them to where they got their ship. If it’s the real deal then you can reproduce their amazing luck and success by picking up the same ship and upgrading it yourself. “I don’t remember and was too busy to write down the location” No 😆