DevnullMod 1.71.3 Released! AI is vastly improved

This version has been a long time coming, but I finally was able to do many of the things I've been wanting to in this mod. I skipped 1.73.2 and made it an internal release, so I'm now releasing 1.73.3. The changelists for both versions are below. As always, you can download the mod at http://www.devnullsoftware.com/se5.

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Version 1.71.3
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• 1. Changed Upgraded to FQM 14 and bundled all necessary pieces with mod to avoid install hassles with the MultiMedia Pack that have kept many players from enjoying this mod. I will attempt to put out 2 versions of the mod, with and without the bundled Multimedia Pack files and users can download the mod version that they like.
• 2. Changed Lowered costs of colonizers back slightly because I overcompensated and made them TOO expensive in the last version.
• 3. Fixed Energy Refractor can only be placed in armor slots
• 4. Changed Climate Control Facilities now work much faster (6-10%/year instead of 3-5%/year)
• 5. Changed Climate Control Components now work much faster (3-5%/year instead of 1-3%/year)
• 6. Changed Atmospheric Converter Facilities to work faster (5/4.5/4/3.5/3) instead of (10/8.75/7.5/6.25/5)
• 7. Changed Atmospheric Converter Components to work faster (10/7.5/5 years instead of 20/15/10).
• 8. Changed Changed supplies for engines. Ion Engines have about half of what they used to and a lower cap for how much extra they gain with tech levels in resupply. Quantum Engines now have more supplies than before and will gain extra supplies for each resupply level (no cap). Other engine types are in between these extremes.
• 9. Changed Modified Starting Facilities so that no race has illegal starting facilities in all-tech game
• 10. Changed Alloy Burner Missile changed to actually be a missile
• 11. Changed Limit engineering bays to 1 per vehicle
• 12. Changed Decreased production of solar generators - they are now more on par with monolith facilities. With one star in the system, they produce slightly less than a monolith (which produces about half of what a specialized facility does), but with 2 or 3 stars in the system, they produce more than monoliths.
• 13. Changed Normal boarding parties disallowed on Drones (too easy to overwhelm normal (slower) ships with masses of troops since drones are so cheaply mass-produced)
• 14. Changed Energy Dampener and Weapon Disrupter were badly balanced. Changed both to be balanced (tonnage, reload, damage amount, Tech Level availability, etc)
• 15. Changed Slightly re-balanced range mods for base mounts
• 16. Fixed AI will not build a temporal space yard unless the planet already has a space yard (in the queue or built) and is large enough to support it.
• 17. Fixed AI base yards will now add orbital drydocks if possible
• 18. Fixed AI temporal races will now add Temporal Spaceyard Enhancers to specific designs if possible
• 19. Fixed AI races that used organic and crystalline armors will now use the appropriate armor
• 20. Fixed AI will now use armor (as opposed to "Heavy Armor" from Balance Mod)
• 21. Fixed Orbital Drydocks now only available for bases
• 22. Changed Updated Government and Society Types to use Romulus Doctrines
• 23. Added Resource generating facilities now have ability to store a small amount of the resources they produce.
  

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Version 1.71.2 (Unreleased)
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• 1. Fixed Crystalline Torpedos could reach 0 tons. Ooops
• 2. Changed Supply and Ordnance storage not needed on Weapon Platforms so I made it unavailable to them.
• 3. Changed Stellar manipulation was too cheap
  -raised cost to 500000 base
  -more pre-requisites (Physics 5, Warp Point Manip 4, World Manip 4)
• 4. Changed Warp Point Manipulation too cheap - raised cost to 60000 base
• 5. Changed Warp Point Manipulation started at 50 ly + 20 ly per level (way too far). Changed to 10 ly base + 10 ly per level (matches BM 1.14)
• 6. Changed Intel tech area too cheap for its effects - doubled cost to 20000 base
• 7. Changed Adjusted costs of intel (higher) and research (lower) enhancer facilities + intel facilties (higher).
• 8. Changed Increased cost of colonizer modules - colonization phase of game too easy and players growing too quickly. The colonization phase was taking over the game and made it less about strategy than about pumping out colony ships.
• 9. Changed Rebalanced some small weapons to make things a little more balanced. Made sure that ground damage matched space damage in most cases.
  -small electric discharge
  -small acid globule
  -small shard cannon
  -small time distortion burst
  -small telekinetic projector
  -small depleted uranium cannon
  -small meson blaster
  -ground cannon
  -small phased polaron beam
  -small ripper beam
• 10. Fixed medium carriers were too slow (should have had a base move of 10, not 8 )
• 11. Fixed massive seeker ship and base mounts increased supply/ordnance by +1900%!!! (Changed to +300%)
• 12. Fixed system radius setting in settings.txt was too large and it was making maps that had planets outside the hexes. Doh
• 13. Fixed Fighter computers not working
• 14. Changed Halved effect of temporal space yards and temporal space yard enhancer component. They were too high and it was making the temporal racial trait unbalancingly powerful.
• 15. Changed Slightly Adjusted happiness modifier for Genetic Recoding Lab
• 16. Changed Spaceports decrease happiness more - significantly more. Beware.
• 17. Changed Overhauled the AI scripts for DevnullMod to make the AI not only research the new tech tree, but construct with it as well. The revamped AI is a vast improvement over the old one (mainly because the old AI scripts were from another mod and the changes in this mod were gimping them severely) and the AI can actually be a real challenge, at least in the game's expansion phase. The changes to the scripts are still not well-tested, however, so please, if you run into problems with the AI's research or construction strategies, let me know.
• 18. Added Added stubs of selected non-stock shipsets with updated-for-DevnullMod AI scripts. These are all in the Empires\CustomEmpiresWithDevnullModAI folder. To use them, simply make sure that you have the base empire files in your SE5\Empires folder and then copy the folder from the DevnullMod\Empires\CustomEmpiresWithDevnullModAI to your DevnullMod\Empires folder. This will make sure that the custom race is not playing with a gimped AI that is not compatible with DevnullMod. Note that if you want to add another race that I did not include here, it's very simple to do so - just copy the default_main_script.csf and the default_setup_script.csf files from the "Default" empire directory into your new race's directory and rename them by replacing the "default" with your race's name.
  The empires that I've created AI files for are:
  • --Cardassian
  • --Colonial
  • --Dominion
  • --FedTNG
  • --Ferengi
  • --Hierarchy
  • --Hiigaran
  • --IA
  • --Imperial
  • --Klingon
  • --RDMCylon
  • --Romulan
  • --Shadows
  • --Tholian
    
• 19. Changed Updated readme.txt, etc to better document mod installation procedures and gotchas