Hi, first of all I would like to take a moment and congratulate Stardock on an amazing game and too some spectacular work on improving the AI. Especially in the last patch.
But there is a few things that still needs adressing.
One of those things that I feel needs tweaking, is how the AI priorites engines on its ship designs. And for that matter I would like to ask any modders out there if they know of a way to make the AI priority engines more?
Maybe there is a way to increase the AI value on engines like on the planetary improvements?
Or do I have to make new ship designs and associate them with the AI somehow?
The last part I acctually tried but with no success. The way I tried went like this.
1: Designed a new ship in the game called "NewShip" (which was a basic colony ship with just one more engine attached to it).
2: Copied the S2_UD_NewShip0.shipcfg and the NewShip.xml file associated with that ship design and moved them too the mods folder under the maps /shipCfg and /shipDefs.
3: Edited the .xml file and deleted the "userdesign" part and the "_UD_" from the model to make it a core design.
UD_NewShip0 ->
NewShip4: Considering I wanted to try and make the Drengins build this new ship, I changed the prefix from S2 to S3 on the .shipcfg file.
5: Started the game and turned on "use mods" in the option meny, restarted the game and started a new small map with the drengins as an opponent. I also choosed the Drengin ship style for my own race so I could check if I was able to build it at all.
6: After the game started up, I checked the starport and there were the correct shipdesign. Drengin style and with the correct attachments.
Now hopefull that the AI would be able to construct these ships, I moved a couple of scouts to the Drengins and just sat outside his planets waiting too see if he would build the new colony ship or not.
Regretable he didnt. Tried 4 more games just to give him a chance to choose the new ship design, but alas he didnt choose it all.
* Im completely new to modding so I most probably made an error somewhere. And hopefully there is an easy way to make the AI build speedier ships.
Any help is greatly appreciated
