units.json and ships.json has a lot of cruft

[royfalk]

Examples:

{
        "Key": "idun",
        "Textual_Description": "\"The Rlaan Shizu is in many ways similar to its Confederate counterpart, the Schroedinger, meant more for reconaissance and scouting patrols than heavy combat.  Nonetheless, its twin gun mountings allow it to mount a basic defense, should it come under attack.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "idun.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"The Rlaan Shizu is in many ways similar to its Confederate counterpart, the Schroedinger, meant more for reconaissance and scouting patrols than heavy combat.  Nonetheless, its twin gun mountings allow it to mount a basic defense, should it come under attack.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "lodur",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Rlaan cruiser\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "lodur.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Rlaan cruiser\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "thrud",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Rlaan mass production fighter\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "thrud.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Rlaan mass production fighter\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "vark",
        "Textual_Description": "\"A venerable Aeran destroyer, the Agasicles is designed far more for screening efforts than for capital engagements, but is nimble for a ship its size and dangerous in close quarters.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "vark.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"A venerable Aeran destroyer, the Agasicles is designed far more for screening efforts than for capital engagements, but is nimble for a ship its size and dangerous in close quarters.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "vidar",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Rlaan mass production assault craft\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "vidar.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Rlaan mass production assault craft\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "vitik",
        "Textual_Description": "\"A carrier built on a scale of paranoid grandeur, this Aeran vessel is as much mobile base as anything else, packing sufficient supplies for prolonged engagements with contested supply lines.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "vitik.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"A carrier built on a scale of paranoid grandeur, this Aeran vessel is as much mobile base as anything else, packing sufficient supplies for prolonged engagements with contested supply lines.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "yavok",
        "Textual_Description": "\"The Dreadnaught of the modern day, these Aeran battleships pack so many innovations and so much firepower into a single vessel that it is unfair to categorize it with other battlecruisers or battleships.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "yavok.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"The Dreadnaught of the modern day, these Aeran battleships pack so many innovations and so much firepower into a single vessel that it is unfair to categorize it with other battlecruisers or battleships.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "yrilan",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Aeran cruiser, of venerable tenure of service.\"\n"
    },
    {
        "Key": "yrilan.blank",
        "Textual_Description": "\"Aeran cruiser, of venerable tenure of service.\"\n"
    },

Also, these are sort of duplicates of add_spec_capacitor*__upgrades

{
     "Key": "spec_capacitor01__upgrades",
     "Textual_Description": "\"@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.png@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel\"\n"
 },
 {
     "Key": "spec_capacitor02__upgrades",
     "Textual_Description": "\"@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.png@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel\"\n"
 },
 {
     "Key": "spec_capacitor03__upgrades",
     "Textual_Description": "\"@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.png@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel\"\n"
 },
 {
     "Key": "spec_capacitor04__upgrades",
     "Textual_Description": "\"@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.png@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel\"\n"
 },

There's much more like this.

[yowshi]

i think the spec capacitor upgrades allow you jump hold more energy so you can jump/ftl bigger ships. not sure they are complete cruft.

[royfalk]

You missed the fact that these are duplicates. The ones in the game are called mult_spec_capacitor*__upgrades and have actual figures. These don't have mass, volume or ftl_energy. If you managed to add them to the game, they wouldn't do anything.

[yowshi]

you are right, and some of the text files in the units/factions folders seem to be dupes of entries in units.json.