I always found that the initial range of ships, expecially the explorer and the scout - is too big. With the explorer for instance you can explore prety much 25% of a gigantic map from the start. Now in the ship stats files there's a value named "Range" - which Ive edited. For instance i've reduced the survey ship's range from 4 to 2. But when loading the game - the survey ship keeps his old range. What should I do ?