Hmmm, is there a happy medium between that and what you had before? 1 tile per tech is pretty binary and boring, I kinda liked that you couldn't always tell how good a planet was going to be until you started terraforming. Some planets would get nothing, others could get quite a bit. It's really only the last two techs, and last one specifically that went overboard.

Just running a few soaks with your latest 1.35 version (I was on 1.34 prior) and the AI is terraforming the first upgrade without problem. I'd only occasionally see that before. I'll try to keep my eyes peeled to see what happens if they ever research the 2nd tier and so on.

The problem was twofold before, they wouldn't do the project, and 2 they wouldn't research it. Seems like you may have solved the 1st one? I'm not sure if you ran any tests on your 1.35 version before moving onto the 1.4 files when you changed the terraforming projects to filler projects? Did they ever get to 2nd base?

I can confirm the AI's are now researching terraforming techs, and may even be applying them. I'll keep my eye on them to see. They are 100% using the first level of the tech, and many planets I've looked at have no slots available, although many still do. Hard to say for sure, but will report back.

*edit* just confirmed an AI with terraforming tech (level 3) saw instances on 2 planets with the AI performing it. its not consistent tho. NOt sure if it can be prioritized more but they are doing it now.

OK, have re-added multiple terraforming and have made it the AI's #1 priority filler improvement. Let's see how it does with that. 

Oh, and 1.4.1 released:

If you have a previous version of the mod installed, you will need to delete it before extracting this version. SD renamed a couple of files, and so it will throw an error if the old version is still present. Or you can delete the bad file; the game will pop up a grey box which tells you exactly which one and where it is.

Quoting tralken,

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I posted this on nexus site first but things seem much more active over here so I, reposting

 

So I was testing out the mod for about a week and its glorious! iv always played only insane maps and this mod fixes 90% of the unbalanced things I had an issue with(and it may fix the last thing, missle cdr hitting 95% making it broken, but I haven't bothered to test it yet). and today there was a patch for 1.4, so I went back to vanilla... urg agony. so I showed up here prepared to beg for an update and there already was one!! anyway, heres some notes:

possible bug: Patriotic trait according to patch notes and file should be giving a 10 approval bonus empire wide, and it does not.

possible bug: Drengin tech does not have an approval building strait out and with the rework to how approval works make them starting out VERY complicated. I tried a few builds and ended up relying on pouring my production into colonization just to spread my people thin while I prayed for artifacts to get me the first teir building.

possible AI bug: when I get a few money planets going strong im able to start buying out other factions tech, its what the ai does with that money that is weird. I traded 25000 ish credits for like 8 techs. and 5 turns later that faction had bought literally HUNDREDS of constructors, so many constructors it started taxing my 32gb memory and quad core i7 cpu. I tested this in 3 different games to be sure... don't know if that's in your mod or not, but you've posted some info about ai reworking so I figured youd find this interesting regardless.

anyway, thanks for all the hard work!

 

Thanks  

I'll probably put out another 1.4 version one early next week. I'll take a look at those bugs; I've seen the AI building mass constructors at certain points in the game. It seems to be only certain personalities at certain points of the game, though.

No idea if this is the problem BUT i had done some simple ship mods and did not define all my text pointers.  Everyplace else in the game where it call for text and its undefined, the pointer to the missing text is printed.  However if its the ship name or description it will crash the game when you go to save in designer.

hmm I did try vanilla models and modded models (some star trek stuff) with both iabm enabled and disabled. both worked without and neither with. or maybe you mean the box that's supposed to appear when you save so you can name the ship? I could see that being related. you would think if any of the model parts or components were the issue it would crash on opening the designer, so the text box does seem like a good idea.

hmm your right, just went and tested that and only the cargo hull crashes. weird

I'm not shifting it from 1%/level, as that gives me better granular control over the bonuses for balance reasons. However, I'm open to increasing the levels given by different buildings etc at some point to make hubs more important, or to make some races more adjacency-dependent then others etc. The main point of it wasn't to help the AI; at 5% per level, it was easy to make buildings that had more bonus from adjacency than they have inherently; that makes it VERY difficult to achieve a balance between production and expenditure.

Yeah, I go through and reconcile the UI text changes from time to time. I might just get rid of the mod's version of the file, tbh; it's only in there to change the turn length flavour text from weeks to months, and it's a pain having to update it every time there's a base game patch.

I'm tempted to increase the exclusion range further tbh; I'd rather eliminate SB stacking. It's really micro-intensive, it's dull, and it's overpowered. 

Found and fixed. I suspect it's due to a couple of the thumbnails for Drengin and Pirate factions having changed.

Shifting the adjacency bonus to 2.5% would be the perfect value, not too high that adjacency is overpowered but not too weak it is de facto an abandonned mechanism. You are also killing in effect many tiles bonus like geothermal springs and such. Who cares putting a factory there now  that the bonus is +2%. You should perhaps see what others people think, except if you do the mod only for you (but in this case, you would not publish it either).

I don't think he was trying to imply anything, a

I'm still not shifting the per-level value from 1%, though. But yeah, I don't mind for instance giving tile bonuses a buff so that you get, say, 5 levels from them etc. I can adjust the levels granted from everything independently, so I can arbitrarily make, say, factories give 3 levels but not change any of the others if I wanted to. This is why 1% per level is better; it allows me to exactly control how much things are worth to the smallest integer.