general modding question

[Suicide Junkie]

if you copied that message down exactly, then you need one more 'd' in "brige"

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If you think about it, they are fairly redundant. No starship would be built without these function or they would be, in effect, really pretty pieces of scrap metal.

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You just described the point of requiring a bridge/lifesupport/crewquarters component: the fact that they can be destroyed in combat! If they were merely part of the hull, then you've made an invulnerable command & control structure.
Especially with null space weapons, the B/LS/CQ are critical systems to simulate in the battle engine.

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I don't know what you tried to do to merge them, but you don't need to adjust the ship hulls! (yet)

What I meant was this:
- Edit components.txt
- Find lifesupport; increase the space taken to 20kT, and change the image to the crew quarters image.
- Change the description to something like "Habitable areas on the ship, including crew quarters, hallways, lifts, and social rooms"
- give reactors the ability from crew quarters.
- delete crew quarters.

Now, go back and increase or decrease the value of "min crew quarters" to set the required reactors.