No Point Defence in Technology in Balance mod

Is it even in the data file?

The only prereq for Point-Defense in Balance Mod is military science level 1, which is a starting tech... have you modified your Balance Mod data files in any way?

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HAI CAN HAS MINECODEZ PLZ KTHXBYE
*lays tons of mines on your homeworld*

I have the same problem. PD is missing from my research options. Also, after researching Physics, High Energy Discharge weapons are now missing as well. Is there a new tech tree for BM 1.16?

Can you check your components.txt file - does Point-Defense Cannons have a prerequisite of "Point - Defense Weapons" or "Point-Defense Weapons"?

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It is "Point-Defense Weapons". (No space before or after the hyphen.) This is the case for the PD Cannons, Blaster and Beam.
By the way, I am also missing High Energy Discharge weapons. I checked the components.txt file for them and they also do not have spaces before or after the hyphen in the prerequisite statement.

Cap'n Kwok - If it helps, High Energy Discharge Weapons never appeared in the expected results window when researching Physics 3. Scanners did, but I don't think that Phased Energy Weapons did either.

Cap'n Kwok - I finally had time to do a little experimentation and it looks like this is caused by loading a Game Setup that was created under an earlier version. I started from scratch and the Point Defense Weapons are now in the research tree. I haven't gotten there yet, but I can guess that High Energy Discharge Weapons will also now become available.

Ok. That's why I warned people not to use previous game setups, maps, empire files.

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I think I can download BM1.16 now.

When I started a new game, I noted point-defense was gone from the beginning tech components. And was not listed in research screen. I wondered if Point-defense was disabled for a reason. :)So I played one game with point-defense weapons disabled, and selected non missle weapons as a handicap. Set the difficulty to high, bonus = high. And promptly got my butt handed to me. Got lazy playing pre-patch 1.15 games. And was not expecting a armada of ships armed with range=15 nuclear missiles.

For me:
Setting the techareas data file, point-defense to can be removed
= FALSE worked for me.

And yes, if I was smart and not lazy, I would have done what Kwok had suggested.