God Emperor: in case you don't see it posted.

[God Emperor]

Marco,
The ResearchDesign mod is compatible with Mod Pack (Mephisto tested the earlier Version and the current Version is little changed. Also, I normally play with my ResearchDesign mod and have not encountered any problems).

The only point to note of course is that my ResearchDesign mod introduces point defence at game start (I believe that the AI needs PD in order to beef it up against missiles, seeing as AI ships in tactical combat basically charge forward) and one TechArea file also allows destroyers at game start too.
Regards,
God Emperor

PS: The only alteration to the Components file was to reduce the space requirement for Level 1 point defence from 20kT to 15kT (so that they can fit on frigates and destroyers a bit better).