I'll have to say, i'm not too familiar with the Rogue. Haven't played with them yet, and i'm also wondering: did something happen to the archailect? Have they been started at all, or not? because i see them up top in the OP but i don't see them in R6.2.

Also going to have to apologize for what could be a massive wall'o'text, but i cannot currently get pictures of what i drew up sent to you.

I've done a quick notedown of a possible structure of the Cylon Military research tree, as that one seemed (to me) to have the most useless upgrades, since it was based off of the Vasari (for instance, the only weapon upgrade that actually did something was the Phase Missile researches, and shield upgrades are completely useless), and I just wonder about your take on a few abilities/research upgrades i've come up with.

First section is weapons research.

at tiers 1, 3, and 5, i have missile damage upgrades.
at 2 and 4 are missile range upgrades, which lead to a tier 6 research that was questionable:

Basestar Multi-targeting:
number of levels of research is your choice
Allows Cylon Capitals' missile banks target one extra enemy ship. That's not per research upgrade, but total. So it could take two or three points to research, but won't allow the extra targeting until the last point is researched.
This one i thought questionable because it could totally mess with balancing, so i wanted to run it by you.

At tiers 2 and 3 i have upgrades to raider damage (or autocannon damage, but it seems raiders are the only ones with that weapon type unless starbases do too, but starbase upgrades are in the defense research tree)

then, at tiers 3, 5, and 6 i have siege damage upgrades leading to a siege range upgrade.

Next section looks at Hull research.

Tiers 1, 3, and 5 are hull point upgrades, leading to tier 7 hull regeneration upgrade.
Tiers 4 and 6 have armor upgrades.

I couldn't think of anything more to put towards hull, but maybe a mitigation/PDS percentage upgrades?

Last section holds Ship Schematics and abilities: (note, forgot names of most ships, a fact i am ashamed of.)

tier 1 holds siegestar schema

tier 2 holds support 1 schema and flak schema

tier 3 holds a repair upgrade for support 1, and the LRM schema

tier 4 holds the carrier and support 2 schema

tier 5 holds the heavy basestar schema and another research to run past you:

Advanced Pack Mentality:

number of levels is 1 or 2 (depending on balance)
All raider squadrons gain +1 raider per research point. 
Because, in the reimagined series, Raiders were made out to be at the animal level of consciousness, i figured that naming it "pack mentality" fit. Raiders are trained to work in larger squadrions.

Tier 6 holds the intercept ability for heavy basestars (taken from Kodiak Cruiser ability) and the anti-module schema

Tier 8 holds "Basestar Resurrection" stolen from Advent research to gain experience over time, and the schema for the Cylon superweapon.


Sorry if this is stepping on toes, and i'm attempting to learn how to program in researches for a mod, so i might do it on my own and separate from your work if you'd like me to, but i'd love to try and help out, as it seems you've got alot on your plate with this mod.

If you want me to i can try to find a way to send you a picture of the actual template i drew up (kind of messy but it works) so that you can much more easily see where the researches might go.  

Maybe, but with these nudges it's nearly automatic that the AI will research techs it wouldn't previously 

Sounds really good !

But I also would prio ECO, because the Ai needs enough resources to compete.

For example Rogue:

CREDITSFROMTRADE0

CREDITSFROMPURCHASES0

COSTDECREASERESOURCES0

SALVAGEEFFICIENCY !!

Without that researches Roque would have a huge disadvantage.

In my opinion non-combat researches are very important, too.

Btw -- R5 Hypercorp

STRUCTUREWORK_METALEXTRACT1

STRUCTUREWORK_METALEXTRACT2

You forgot to improve the extraction rate for crystal (its only for metal).

STRUCTUREWORK_METALEXTRACT0 is correct.

SotF R6.3 (Pending stuff is what I want to finish before I push out 6.3)

• All: Adds Quick Start Templates used in some maps for all races (Pending
• All: AI enhancement for research access. Includes gameplay impacting techs for each race. Economy is not the focus of these improvements as harder level AI's get resource cheats.
• All: AI may purchase advanced upgrades for Starbase.
• Completed: Advent, Nephilim, Plague, Rogue, Tech, Vasari
• Pending: Alliance, Colonial, Cylon, Hypercorp
• Alliance: Ability minExperienceLevelRequired normalized to 0/2/4 from 1/2/3.
• All: Gas Giant Colonization research added
• Completed: Advent, Hypercorp, Nephilim, Plague, Rogue
• Pending: Alliance, Colonial, Cylon
• Gas Giant popuplation increase research added for Advent, Alliance, Hypercorp, Tech and Vasari.
• Colonial: capital ship factory placement radius increased to 2950
• Cylon: missile burst count delay tweaked. Needs more work.
• Cylon: hud updated with slightly translucent picture of hybrid (WIP)
• Cylon: maxShadow's reduced on orbital structures to reduce glair when zooming out.
• Cylon: hud icons for frigate and orbital module access updated in research tree.
• Rogue: Rebalanced Economy allows -80% population control to be slowly lifted as new orbital modules are built.
• Up to 60% can be lifted by building extractors, frigate factory, culture center, trade port and refinery.
• 20% can be lifted by building a capital ship factory or starbase (does not stack).
• Timed charges damage reduced from 1200 to 250. Idea is to steal credits.
• Rogue: Colony capital replaced mutiny with chance with old swift attack. I will bring this back with Rebellion due to new buffs available.
• Rogue: Colony capital can now capture enemy extractors (1/2/3) when colonizing a newly destroyed world.
• Rogue: Moved unstoppable phase jump down 1 tier
• Rogue: Removed unnecessary second level of research for star and worm hole access.
• Rogue: Added new research that decreases planet population upgrade rate and cost
• Minor UI changes for various factions

I know this is kind of a side note but, is it possible to make a frigate or a capital ship act as a mobile frigate or capital ship factory?

Reason i ask is because i'd like to see (or make myself if need be)  the colonials become more of a mobile faction as opposed to a traditional planet faction.

I remember reading something about the vasari faction in rebellion being able to do something like this, i'm just curious if its something that can be done in diplomacy.

dathion here is my standard advice regarding the locating of the mods folder

assuming you have sins 1.193/entrenchment 1.053/diplomacy 1.34(the current non-beta versions), AND your windows is installed on the 'C:' drive,  the Mods NEED to be placed here for xp
C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-v1.193
C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.053
C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34

or here for vista/windows 7
C:\Users\'user name'\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-v1.193
C:\Users\'user name'\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.053
C:\Users\'user name'\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34

NOTE the first two folders after the 'user name' are hidden , so to see them you must first click on 'tools' then 'folder options', then 'view', then click on 'show hidden files& folders' then click ok, then you will be able to browse your want to the folder. I suggest when you find the folder that you create a shortcut to it on the desktop

NOTE 2 the 'user name' in the above paths is your WINDOWS login user name, eg Administrator

note 3 these shortcuts assume your windows is installed on 'C' drive

and if the mod you want to use is from an EARLIER sins/entrenchment version place the mod in the mods folder FOR THAT version eg mods-entrenchment v1.03, then download and run my mods updater from the latest version archive which will have the same number as the vanilla sins version number, and AFTER updating the mod(s) to the current version for any mods of pre 1.04 entrenchment ALSO run the manifest maker on ENTITY manifests on EACH of the mods EXCEPT for total conversion mods

harpo

Follow the link below (also in the OP) for instructions on how to activate the mod. It's probably mini-dumping because you are activating the pieces in the wrong order.

How To Install Sins of the Fallen R5

The AI doesn't seem to follow the 2nd research pre-requisite when determining a ship or structure can be unlocked.

The role type of your research access ship also has an effect on how much the AI wants to unlock the pre-reqs.

As you've seen the main purpose of the structure is because of the 2GB limit, it somewhat depends on your system specs and various hardcode limits in sins. 

If you load more than two custom factions (excluding Advent, Vasari and TEC as their assets are always loaded) I would recommend setting effects to High/Med/Low.

Also consider if you only have 4GB or ram your real RAM allocation may be somewhat less than 2GB for gaming after OS, etc. 

Faction order in highest to lowest texture sizes.

1. Colonial
2. Cylon
3. Plague
4. Rogue
5. Nephilim
6. Alliance
7. Hypercorp

Basically if you activate Colonial and Cylon watch your memory

After playing a while i finally built a colonial envoy (yeah... i don't care much for diplomatic resolutions) anyways i noticed that the model is really good,however the colonial one; is small compared to everything else. I know in the tv series the colonial one landed in one of the galacticas runway wings... but a single viper fighter should not be 2/3rds the size of the entire ship.

So if someone gets a chance, or has the spare time to enlarge the colonial one envoy  by 50% or so that would be cool. I would do it myself but unfortunately 3d modelling and me don't get along very well. 

Other than that great job with the mod!  

Updated notes:

SotF R6.3 (Pending stuff is what I want to finish before I push out 6.3)

• All: Adds Quick Start Templates used in some maps for all races
• All: AI enhancement for research access. Includes gameplay impacting techs for each race. Economy is not the focus of these improvements as harder level AI's get resource cheats.
• All: AI may purchase advanced upgrades for Starbase.
• Completed: Advent, Nephilim, Plague, Rogue, Tech, Vasari
• Pending: Alliance, Colonial, Cylon, Hypercorp
• Alliance: Ability minExperienceLevelRequired normalized to 0/2/4 from 1/2/3.
• All: Gas Giant Colonization research added
• Completed: Advent, Hypercorp, Nephilim, Plague, Rogue
• Pending: Alliance, Colonial, Cylon
• Gas Giant popuplation increase research added for Advent, Alliance, Hypercorp, Tech and Vasari.
• Colonial: capital ship factory placement radius increased to 2950
• Cylon: missile burst count delay tweaked. Needs more work.
• Cylon: hud updated with slightly translucent picture of hybrid (WIP)
• Cylon: maxShadow's reduced on orbital structures to reduce glair when zooming out.
• Cylon: hud icons for frigate and orbital module access updated in research tree.
• Rogue: Rebalanced Economy allows -80% population control to be slowly lifted as new orbital modules are built.
• Up to 60% can be lifted by building extractors, frigate factory, culture center, trade port and refinery.
• 20% can be lifted by building a capital ship factory or starbase (does not stack).
• Timed charges damage reduced from 1200 to 250. Idea is to steal credits.
• Rogue: Colony capital replaced mutiny with chance with old swift attack. I will bring this back with Rebellion due to new buffs available.
• Rogue: Colony capital can now capture enemy extractors (1/2/3) when colonizing a newly destroyed world.
• Rogue: Moved unstoppable phase jump down 1 tier
• Rogue: Removed unnecessary second level of research for star and worm hole access.
• Rogue: Added new research that decreases planet population upgrade rate and cost
• Rogue: Fixed Interdiction buffTypeToQuery finishCondition
• Plague: Updated phase jump sounds on capital ships
• Plague: Growth stages require 3 previous levels to unlock
• Nephilim: Culture rate 5 requires 2 previous levels to unlock
• Minor UI changes for various factions
• Flagships: Support capitals removed from random flagship selection. Colony as 2/5 chance to spawn
• Moons: Moons may spawn at Terrans, Desert, Gas Giant, Volcanic and Ice. Multiple moons may spawn at Terrans and Gas Giants. Moons spawned at neutral worlds are captured via colonizers. Moons are automatically converted to star bases once captured.
• Moons: No longer start with weapons. Reduced to missiles only with second level upgrade increasing weapon damage.
• Moons: Can only be captured by colony frigates (no scouts!).
• Artifacts: Fixed second weapon upgrade to include 2 upgrade level.

Trying to decide if I should refactor the AI stuff into an addon or leave it in the core mod. Need to play some more games to decide on that.

No. my focus is on completing my mod right now.

It's questionable how much impact the vast majority of players will even see with any "Enhanced AI" changes as it is. A couple of other mods have similar approaches you can look at if you want to create this yourself. EA4x and SOGE all have AI enhancements.

What really bothers me is the AI doesn't have any way to prioritize research is odd to say the least. I've tried the priority option and nada, the AI doesn't care about unlocking abilities either which would make the game more dynamic which leaves out 25% of the research trees. Outside of the known things it tries to unlock research is completely random if it ever occurs. Research pre-reqs are only partially successful too as the AI doesn't care about the 2nd pre-req in my observation.

At this point I have the AI atleast researching some things that make it more formidable and gives a couple cheats for starbases if the AI chooses to unlock them. I'm going to let these burn in a bit before I look at doing anymore.