Balance Mod v1.14a Patch for SE5 v1.71 Available!

What about v1.71 compatibilty with BM 1.09PBW?

Thank you VERY much.

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Is BM 1.5 going to be savegame compatible with a new game started with 1.71 and BM 1.14a? Seeing that there's this new patch I wanted to get back to the game, but if you release a new version of the mod in a week or so that wouldnt make much sense if I can't continue with the new version.

Hopefully in a week or so, I'm gonna be making a new mod. mind if I use BM as a starting point?

Escrisma gave me an idea, and I like it.

see: http://spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/5120

This is probably the wrong thread to be asking, but I'm new to this mod and SE5 in general. I'm generally confused with the function of ministers, and I figure it's probably simpler than I'm making it. In a nutshell; how do the minister toggles in the Empire window work? For example: If I have the toggle to handle fighter launching at planets, do I still need to toggle the minister on for every planet that I want fighters handled at? Or, are all the minister toggles in the empire screen global?

ministers are global.

Thanks Kwok. I'm pretty sure that I caught my minister pulling fighters back into the planet after I launched them earlier without minister control on though; so it certainly appears they're global.

I could be crazy too, as I'm still pretty new to SE5; but unless fighters automatically recall themselves if they're left in orbit of a planet I have to assume the minister did it. This game's got a pretty steep learning curve compared even to MOO3; and I thought it was pretty deep. Mastering this game's going to take some time.

marhawkman, as far as im aware matey, the general etiquete for the game is that ya welcome to use pretty much anything from any mod as long as you give credit where its due, with links if possible.
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Grand Lord Exelsiar of the Azra-Dun Commonwealth, at your service

Kwok, could you please add the ability of the AI to research Mineral,organics,radioactive extraction upgrades. When Maintenance supply exceeds overall supply.

The last two games that I have played, The AI_empire tends to have a economic crash when I take over one of their high mineral extraction worlds. And if several high mineral extraction worlds are taken over, the AI never truly recovers. (1.14 version)

Its rather depressing when a good game gets ruined by a Ai that can't balance its budget.

(Of course, with the recent US economic slump. Maybe a balance budget is a fantasy, not a reality? And the AI is modeled after US capitalism 101. )

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Er... I'd actually have it research once it's used 75% of resources. But only research while at 75% or more. Otherwise it won't be able to build the upgrades once it has them.

Now to get started..... I still am waiting on computer.

I've got a question on the subject of AI as well. Does the AI design its ships using the same auto design feature the player has? If so, there's some kind of issue with the organic tech tree at least where the auto design prefers to use the small ordnance vats over the normal sized one on every ship I've tried to auto design right up to dreadnoughts. Not sure if it's your deal Kwok, but based on the numbers 4x smalls are quite inferior to a single normal sized one and a waste of tonnage that could be spent elsewhere. Not sure if any other racial techs have this issue; but I did notice the AI designer never seems to want to use the religion based ship fittings either. It also prefers my level 1 depleted uranium cannons over my level 5+ organic weapons systems.

Personally I wish there was an auto design feature that would just fill in the necessary components to get rid of all the requirements, so I just had to add the extras. I've become pretty efficient and fitting out ships by this point though, so it's not a big deal to just do everything by hand.

maybe several different design types for varying weapons?

You're right about the supply ship being the biggest problem. It ended up filling my middle deck of my dread with tons of the little green buggers. It's good to hear you're going over the ship building logic in 1.15; especially if it helps the AI put up a better fight.

I did notice one other odd issue, but I'm not at my PC to give you the proper name of the facility. It's the organic facility that adds 2m population per turn, and it doesn't always show up as being queued in the same system when you're looking at the build queue of another planet in that system. It shows 0 queued, which in my case led to me building 3 of them in a single system until I realized the error. It's hardly a show stopper, but I found it odd since the rest of the organic facilities didn't seem to have the same problem.

Which is part of the problem, once the AI out spends itself, It rarely recovers.

I've had many games ruined. When the AI lost a Armada, and\or Mineral extraction planets. And then it never truly recovers.

(It would be nice if the AI placed some of its research focus on building up its resources\economy. Along with balancing its budget, and not spending itself into oblivion.)

Now I'm really looking forward to 1.15.

Thanks for the information kwok.