[blowfish]

What is the limit to the number of ships you can currently have in the table (I think it is 130 but I want to make sure)?

and

How many ships are in the retail tables?

also

I believe that this limit will be raised in 3.7.  Is this true?  What will it be raised to?

EDIT: Oh and also:  Is there any limit to the number of weapons that can exist?

[Dark Hunter]

Ships limit is indeed 130... unless you use an Inferno build, in which case it is 300.

Retail ships... something like 120 or 125... there's a bit of extra room at any rate.

As for 3.7, I heard that the limit was going to become dynamic, but I guess you'd have to hear from the SCP people for that one.

As for the weapons, I don't know, and the Wiki doesn't say, so I wouldn't know where to look for the answer.

[Turey]

Max weapon types is 200 for regular builds, 300 for inferno.

[blowfish]

Well, I just checked, and retail has 113 ships ... so that allows 27 more ships.  That's not much room to grow ... I can't wait for 3.7, but I know that that won't appear anytime soon.

[karajorma]

Ships limit is indeed 130... unless you use an Inferno build, in which case it is 300.

250.

300 is the weapons limit as Turey pointed out.

[Kie99]

What is the purpose of the ships limit?

[Hades]

What is the purpose of the ships limit?

To piss us off.

[karajorma]

Cause the game doesn't work without it.

You need a limit in order to set up an array. And changing everything that uses arrays with a limit to using vectors would take a long time.