Smarter Ship Design: International Edition [3.2]

This mod aims to guide the AI empires to design its ship designs more effectively. Additionally it modifies some ship sections to allow putting missiles on battleships. If you use auto-generated ship designs those should also be improved.

If you play Stellaris in English you may wish to use the the main Smarter Ship Design mod. The main benefit of this variant is that it doesn’t require any new localization files, but you lose some designs from the unmodded game. The other version adds new ship sections instead, but only has English localization.

The mod works on its own, but for an even better effect it can be combined with my other mod Signature Weapons.

The section selection weights have been rewritten and the AI will now pick them based on what technologies it has and what kind of weapons it prefers based on its personality[stellaris.paradoxwikis.com]:

• Empires that prefer missiles will almost always choose to use missile sections.
• Empires that prefer energy weapons will almost never use missile sections.
• Empires that prefer kinetic weapons or strike craft will use missile sections over medium weapon sections if their missiles are more advanced than their normal guns.
• Empires that prefer strike craft will almost always use the ship section with the most hangars.
• Empires that prefer energy or kinetic weapons will favor sections with L slots over sections with M or G slots if they have kinetic artillery or particle launchers researched.
• Empires that have more advanced autocannons than they do lasers, mass drivers, or plasma will favor sections with S slots over sections with M slots.
• Empires that have more advanced PD than they do regular weapons will favor sections with PD slots over sections with S or M slots.
• Empires that prefer energy weapons will favor sections with PD slots already if their PD is of equivalent tech level to their lasers and plasma.
• All battleships will switch over to Spinal Mount Bows after an X sized weapon is researched.
• All destroyers will switch over to the Picket Stern after battleships are researched.
• Empires that research Scourge Missiles will learn to love missile sections.

MODIFIED SECTIONS:

Destroyer:
– Picket Ship Bow: replaced 6 S utility slots with 3 M utility slots

Battleship:
– Hangar Bow: replaced M weapon slot with G weapon slot
– Hangar core: replaced 4 M weapon slots with 4 G weapon slots

This is a gameplay altering mod and as such it will prevent you from getting achievements.

The mod replaces four files:
1) …/Stellaris/common/section_templates/battleship.txt
2) …/Stellaris/common/section_templates/corvette.txt
3) …/Stellaris/common/section_templates/cruiser.txt
4) …/Stellaris/common/section_templates/destroyers.txt

It will be incompatible with any mod that also edits these same files, but should be compatible with all the mods that don’t. It may also be technically compatible but effectively incompatible with a mod that dramatically alters ship design in some other way.

Not compatible with NSC.

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