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Designable Civilian Ships

Might I suggest editing the Science Ship to allow it to have a custom component slot? There seems to be a problem with this mod or perhaps how it interacts with others that makes it so science ships no longer have the ability to cloak. Adding a component slot would allow manually selecting a cloaking field generator.

I think I've found the problem in the mod file 99_civshipdesign

For each ship design it is missing a section to feed the AI a probability that they will build one of the civilian ships. So it defaults to a 0% build probability.

For instance, under the colony ship one needs to add the following code:

ai_ship_data = {
min = value:desired_colonizers
}

The mod is running in parallel with (does not fully replace) the vanilla game file 00_ship_sizes
That file already has the civilian ships on it, and a probability the AI will each of build them.

The game is being fed two files telling it how to manage civilian ships. I think that's why if you manually set up a civilian ship design, then delete the auto-generated design, after a while the game will again set up new auto-generated designs.

I had the same bug as Amon and Chief. AI players will not establish new colonies. I'm in year 95, all 9 AI players have a homeworld and nothing else.

Using console commands to view whats happening in the other Empires I notice:
- They have designs for civilian ships, and the designs are available to build at their starbases.
- However, they will not build ANY civilian ships. No colony ships, construction ships or science ships. They just have 1 science ship and 1 construction ship, the ones they start the game with.
- They will build new warships. And they will research new ship classes and components as normal. Their warship templates will auto-update with new engines, power cores, shields and armour as normal.
- However, their warships all have level 1 weapons, and will not upgrade their ships even if they have the tech and power to do so.

One nice thing I discovered is that you don't need to start a new play through though if you don't want to; just remove the mod from your playset. Save loaded fine; haven't had any issues with the ship designer (other than no more designable civilian ships) and the ai empires started building colonies within a year.

So I did grand admiral up until year 2225 and used a science ship you get from an event that has a psi jump drive I think (unshrouded ship) and then jumped around the galaxy trying to meet all of the ai empires. The only ai empires that had more then 1 colony (other than marauders and fallen) were corporations empires. So my guess is this mod doesn't break / touch the private colony ships that ai corporations can make but it does break the regular colony ships for the ai empires :(

not sure, I started a new run and waiting to see if I get the issue Amon Grabmore and Chief mentioned

still work on 3.9.1？

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for all how wanna try it out, in my case the mod buged out the ai and no new colonies got esablished

holy shit, this makes me able to build colony in my game with 60 mods!!! Thanks so much, saved my day