Re: Design type & Strats.
 

Dracus - I would be very interested to see this - I have been trying to do this since December. I most recently tried it again Last weekend, no luck. The AI_Construction_Vehicle file is only allowed to make calls to certain hard-coded "design types" even though it states at the top of the file that we should be able to place a "[Race]_AI_DesignTypes" in that folder and create new ones. Changin the file of that same name located in the \Data folder does not work. I have also tried redesigning design types such as the kamikaze and boarding into a scout of some sort, but there is now way to tell the AI what to do with these ships (they just sit forever at the construction yard b/c they are not currently coded to be added to fleets). This probably isn't helping you. Anyway, this area of the AI is very frustrating b/c with two small changes, we could improve fleet use and ship design drastically:

(1) Construction_Vehicle "Calls" based on "Design Name" instead of "Design Type"

(2) A flag in the design file to indicate whether this ship should be added to fleets or not.

Sorry for the long post - just my 2 cents.