A local Windows desktop application for importing a Neverness to Everness account inventory and finding strong module, cartridge, and set combinations.
NTE Optimizer follows the same broad idea as inventory optimizers such as Fribbels: import the gear you actually own, define what a character should prioritize, and let a solver compare valid combinations. It is a native desktop application, not a website. The optimizer, account data, and calculations stay on the user's computer.
Important
NTE Optimizer is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the developers or publishers of Neverness to Everness.
Warning
NTE Optimizer is under active, intensive development. Features, decoded game data, recommendations, and optimization behavior may still change as the project is tested against more accounts and game updates. Finding a truly optimal build is especially challenging in NTE: unlike simpler equipment systems, modules can have several geometries, rotations, and valid placements within a character-specific grid. These combinations must be evaluated together with cartridges, sets, statistics, constraints, and equipment shared across characters. The optimizer is designed to search this space carefully, but further correctness, performance, and usability improvements are still in progress.
- imports characters, modules, cartridges, Arcs, equipment ownership, and selected resources from the NTE login traffic;
- displays the imported account in a localized desktop interface;
- ranks equipment using editable stat goals and recommendation profiles;
- solves character-specific module grids, rotations, cartridge selection, and set bonuses together;
- respects equipment already assigned to higher-priority characters unless the user explicitly allows reuse;
- compares current and projected character statistics;
- saves proposed builds locally without changing anything in the game.
The application does not control NTE, click through its interface, modify game files, equip items, or write to the player's account.
The current codebase contains no telemetry, analytics, account login, remote API, or upload feature. It does not send imported account data to a project server.
The scanner uses Windows pktmon to passively record network packets during a
short login window. Administrator permission is required only for the separate
nte-scan.exe helper because packet capture is a privileged Windows operation.
The main application and optimizer run without administrator rights.
Temporary ETL and PCAPNG files are removed after a successful scan. The decoded account snapshot, saved builds, and preferences are stored under:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\NTE Optimizer\workspace
Read Privacy and security for the exact trust model, files written to disk, administrator boundary, and current limitations.
- Download the Windows release archive.
- Verify its SHA-256 checksum if one is provided with the release.
- Extract the archive to a writable folder.
- Start
nte-optimizer.exe. - Open Import, leave NTE on its login screen, and select Start guided scan.
- Accept the Windows elevation prompt for
nte-scan.exe. - When the scanner console says it is ready, log in to NTE.
- Return to the application after the import completes.
No installer or background service is created. See the full Getting started guide for updates, uninstallation, troubleshooting, and the standalone scanner command.
| Area | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Characters | Browse imported characters, inspect their current state, set priority, and start a build search. |
| Builds | Select a strategy, edit stat goals and constraints, run the optimizer, compare ranked results, and save a proposed build. |
| Cartridges | Browse owned cartridges, their main and secondary stats, set, level, lock state, and owner. |
| Modules | Browse owned modules, geometry, stats, set, level, lock state, and owner. |
| Arcs | Browse imported Arcs, progression, ownership, and the character currently using them. |
| Resources | Browse supported account resources with quantities and game icons. |
| Import | Run the guided login scan and review the last successful import summary. |
The user interface supports English and French. Game names come from the localized data extracted from the game; interface text is maintained separately.
The solver combines owned equipment with character grids, module geometry, rotations, set requirements, Arc statistics, console traits, editable targets, and account ownership rules. It can return the best result found so far when a search is stopped, while a completed exact search marks its result as proven within the retained candidate space.
Displayed scores are comparison tools for one strategy. They are not a gear percentage and are not directly comparable across different characters or profiles.
The optimizer uses a fast objective-oriented search that reduces the candidate space before exploring valid placements. This provides a practical balance between result quality and waiting time despite the large number of geometry, rotation, set, and stat combinations.
For formulas, target utility, caps, set scoring, and search behavior, read Optimization model.
- Getting started and user guide
- Privacy and security
- Optimization model
- Architecture
- Data and localization
- Development guide
- Release process
- Engineering history and remaining limitations
NTE Optimizer currently targets Windows 10/11 because its guided scanner uses
Windows pktmon. The desktop application is built with Go, Wails v2, React,
TypeScript, and WebView2.
The versioned catalog currently includes 23 character grids, 12 module geometries, 12 cartridge sets, 22 console traits, 49 Arcs, and English/French game labels. The exact set of supported game records depends on the published datamined catalogs.
Before contributing, read Development and Data and localization. Generated game data must be corrected at its source and republished; it should not be patched by hand in this repository.
No project-wide source-code license is currently declared at the repository root. Until an explicit license is added, the repository should not be assumed to grant redistribution or modification rights.
Game images, names, and extracted game data remain the property of their respective rights holders. Their presence does not grant a general license to redistribute those assets. Third-party Go and npm dependencies retain their own licenses.