You can try modding and making your own faction and adding like 5000 range to your cannons instead of the 1200 or 2000 range present on most weapons, you can also mod the existing weapons of the game to have extended range (which would be the type of mod you are asking for). If you have no idea how to mod there are many great resources like the modding docs[www.anisopteragames.com] and the web development kit[atg.lychnobi.com] to help you get started. Uncertain if there are any mods extending the range of vanilla weapons but there are many overpowered or creative factions that use powerful, long range cannons.

there used to be one, called reaccembly but its been deleted, and cant I just edit some files myself or they have to be labeled as mods?

ok well I cant find blocks.lua even with kwriteblocks 1
so wheres that pesky file

I want vanilla ships to have longrange since its the faction where I have built ships I spent near hundred of hours designing and such

Originally posted by Mauroghen:

there used to be one, called reaccembly but its been deleted, and cant I just edit some files myself or they have to be labeled as mods?

Fairly certain that modifications to the game need to be made with mods so you don't mess up the cloud data or whatever for the game proper.

Originally posted by Mauroghen:

ok well I cant find blocks.lua even with kwriteblocks 1
so wheres that pesky file

???
I think I'm a dumbass or something but what do you mean by kwriteblocks 1?

Originally posted by Mauroghen:

I want vanilla ships to have longrange since its the faction where I have built ships I spent near hundred of hours designing and such

Understandable.

I'll experiement with a mod that updates ranges for vanilla weapons (and I really do hope that I can do so without completely redefining each weapon) and I'll get back to you shortly.

yeah I tried myself and I have no modding knowledge outside of installing them, so it would be great if you made it work

Made a beta version of the mod, I'll put it on friend's only, you can add me to test out the blocks and make sure it's what you're asking. Only the terran faction is done rn but others will be done shortly.

Lonk here