lol, just checked this one and it's a typo - NOTHING should give 95% of anything as a level bonus reduced to 0.05, which is probably where I wanted it. Might knock it down further to 0.01.

On turn 159 of a gifted map and one of the AIs is still flying fleets of Tiny ships. Previous genius map the AI had a fleet of 17 medium ships entering my space by turn 150. Is the difference between gifted and genius supposed to be this significant?

Altarian Environmental Optimization has the bugged desc text descriptions, so did one of the early Drengin farming upgrade texts (I abandoned the game after not being able to build farms).

Tier 1 terraforming under the present release version unlocks all tiles that are 65% land or over. That's just too powerful, and makes the higher level terraforming techs too weak by comparison. It's been shifted to 80%, which means you still get the 'full' tiles that lie in the middle of clumps, but it's a bit more worthwhile getting the second tier (which often gave no tiles at all, and is now set to where T1 was) and third tier now. The rest are unaffected.

I think you'll find in 1.3.2 the increase in base growth makes the LEP more manageable early on without compromising colony costs later.

Hives are OP when they give front-loaded production. With them set to 4, you effectively give yourself 8 free population for 30 manu. The point of the Thalans was meant to be that they're slow to get started but powerful later; this is what the 50% food and approval bonus does - they get much bigger populations, but have to grow them rather than just being handed vast bonuses immediately. As for Thalan tech being 'terrible and uncompetitive' without them, that's just nonsense. They get 30% extra mass cap compared to other races, and 50% more population - and that's just from extra techs. They get pretty much all the rest of the stuff everyone else gets anyway.

Probably. Once again, I don't really bother with the difficulty settings, they just make it hard to judge if the AI can actually play the game. So any oddness in that regard you can lay at SD's door.

But anyway, there's many reasons why the AI might still be using smaller ships; it might have concentrated on other areas of research and so built up its planets instead, or might have specialized more worlds on econ or research and so have relatively low manufacturing output, so it builds smaller ships to avoid spending years building each one. Different AI personality types have different priorities.

Is a known vanilla bug, not a mod thing. There's a couple of posts mentioning the same thing in vanilla. It's probably caused by the AI's subroutines in the C hitting a choice it can't make, and so looping endlessly; we can't really effect that with mods.

Yeah, it's the level bonuses that were removed from vanilla. I'll see if I can track the descriptions down in my backup of 1.2.

It's not a bug so much as something I need to tweak. Basically, you can't have multiple separate upgrade paths for a building - if the entertainment center upgrades to stadiums for some people, it cannot also upgrade to something else for other races. 

What I'd need to do is give the Altarians a separate version of the Communications tech, unlock their basic entertainment building on that, and then rejig their whole tech tree around the new tech. It's not complex, but it's time consuming. So for the moment, they get their race-specific version later.

I need to run multiple playthroughs with multiple tech trees in order to find this stuff, which takes a very long time. That's one of the reasons I need player feedback like this. So thanks

Thanks for the update! Starting new game, genius, but putting in +2 production to Hives (half of vanilla) as on previous map (aborted due to this update coming out) it made the pacing feel more normal

Running a Snathi Race seems to crash version 1.3.2.

Issue with Snathi appears partially to be with the Snathos Home System definition although switching from Dregin to Snathi Tech Tree also causes the game to hang up.  The Snathi Tech Tree is non-standard - created from base tree long ago (per last week's Stream from Paul) and may have some strange techs in it.  Might ask Brad or Paul to let you look at the DLC.  Probably a minor issue somewhere in either the Ship designs or Tech Tree but just using the Snathi home system causes the game to crash so something wrong there too.

Adding the SnathosStar to Stardef.xml (well I used the new standard StarDefs.xml from 1.3 but I just adding the star worked on the laptop but looked like other stars were missing too) plus Copying the standard PlanetDef.XML to add SnathosPrime planet definition allowed me to use the Snathi Star System.  Snathi Tech Tree seems to work fine but the Snathi Ship Definitions cause the game to hang so something needs cleaning up with those but I used Dregin ShipsSet for now.

AI is seriously kicking my ass now. Fleets of 29 ships made up of support ships, cruisers, and interceptors. One thing is for sure, even having set my Hives to +2 production (instead of 4) it is not enough to keep up with the AI on genius setting, nowhere close. 4 seemed too much but I think next game 3 will be the sweet spot.

I'm not seeming to get much results from the Hyperion Shipyard (built it with 6 adjacency bonus) and noticed no increased HP in either ships built in a shipyard attached to the system, or anywhere else - Not even the 20% it sais in the description.

Hyperion shrinker adjacency bonus also doesn't seem to do anything either - cant be sure If I saw an increase in capacity either, can anyone confirm?

Well ive never seen carriers in vanilla after 200 hours of play so this is all new to me. The fighters take out large capital ships in a single salvo with laser weapons, even with the ships having large amounts of laser defense. Are the fighters supposed to be that effective? Only way im combating carriers is to use carriers of my own. In fact im not building anything but carriers right now as theyre ridiculously powerful. Is that due to this mod or due to 1.3?

?? Did you change this in your mod, in vanilla kinetics are the shortest  but fastest firing

Yes, I changed it. Kinetics are mid range, extremely rapid firing and fairly inaccurate. Lasers are short range and super accurate.