Personally, this is only an issue because ArmorHpBlockMultiplier is being edited. I don't see this issue ever effecting anyone using the game, unless they're trying to break things. Basically, unless I'm mistaken, 2.15 billion HP would never be hit by a player.

You can hit the cap at 25.000.000 ship blocks, this is obviously in the reach of known builds, without modification of the multiplier, if someone wants to buff the armor, by doubling it, you only need 12.500.000 blocks to hit the cap.

So, this increased modifier is only a helper, and not a real "use case" ^^°

fixable but at the cost of a lot of bandwidth (replacing at least four 4-byte int with four 8-byte long) 2 of which update on every damage taken

Its not needed to extend the range. However I heard the entities hp malfunction when hittin g the limit

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Another possible fix:

int #1 is the main armor HP
boolean states whether another int is needed (health is > 2^31-1)
int #2 is used only if the boolean is true

Second integer would be left-shifted to create a long.

With this method all ships would use 5 bytes per HP value, instead of the 8 bytes of just using a long. Massive ships would use 9 bytes though, which of course would be rare.

good point. I'll implement that

-QA Testing-

Fix confirmed.

yup, works:
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