All Hail the Balance Mod!!!

You could do that with stock as well, more or less, by turning off the "alpha sort" for components in the Empire Options menu. Not why it isn't off by default.

Not only if MM would drop mandatory alpha-sort on design types...

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Just started a game with balance mod 1.08 and version 1.35 of the game and have come across a bit of a bug when assaulting planets with fighters on. Having managed to disable some of the fighters and left them to run off of the map they seem to reappear in ground combat although they don't actually show up on the ground combat map. As a result I'm unable to conquer the planet, unable to transfer my troops off of the planet and unable to attack the planet again. Is this a common problem and is there anyway around it save for waiting for my units to run out of ammo and get shot up by the solitary militia that does get produced each year?

Had the same problem on a previous game and sent fighters down to the planet in the hope that they would get these bad guys but to no avail!

I haven't experienced this problem myself, but it would be a good idea to forward the save game to MM so that a fix could be made to avoid the situation you described.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Will do!

Oh one other thing I've noticed in the above game is that my oponents are generating intelligence points when I have switiched off the can use intelligence in the options section of the game.

Balance Mod Rocks.

In fact, if Kwok gets the AI much smarter the crippled fighter issue will be very important. As it is, you just wait for your troops to die and glass the planet - no big hurry. One could try building a shipyard at the planet and giving it to the enemy so they could repair; but that's not very practical.

Best thing about the project is how Kwok doesn't get riled when us noobs wrongly criticize things out of ignorance.

I eagerly await his next mod as well. I'd hate to try teaching the AI to design for directional damage, but Kwok's already done some amazing things.

That's actually going to be the hardest thing to do with the next mod. The built-in script functions for adding components to designs are set to add either to the "top" (ie highest numbered slots) or "bottom" (lowest numbered slots). I would have to reorganize the general number of slots for all the sets (or use the override slots only) to be set up so the numbering for a ship's slots to be done in such a way that items are added in an even fashion to all 4 sides.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

That's a current shortcoming in the AI scripts. There's no way or function available yet to indicate the game does not allow intel and so the AI can't be told not to build/research intelligence.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

I too encountered the fighter problem and yes you just have to wait it out (took me ages to figure out why i couldn't win, after i destroyed all their facilities i realised), I'm guessing it's more a problem with the game than with balance mod though?

I've had the problem taking over planets as well. It seems the AI only launches one fighter a battle, and as long as it still has fighters in cargo it can't be captured.

The only time I've seen it was with balance mod, and in a situation where the AI had made weaponless fighter-bombers. Seems like that could be relevant, but I don't know.

How does one send a save to MM?

I think he said that it needs to be updated to work with the upcoming patch, but let's see the patch first...