Ship Role/difficulty adjusted AI modifiers

[Duder]

In ship designer, ship role, does this have any effect other than equipping the ship?
I try to customize and then select a role but it changes the loadout.

The difficulty adjusted AI modifiers. Has anyone tried these? In my last plays late game was easy once you snowballed to a point, you were unstoppable. Does this at least give the AI a chance

[Kackstift]

with AI modifiers and a few hostile empires you may not get to the endgame.. i tryed grand admiral mit ai modifier.. and a swarm next door had in year 2235 50k+ fleets.. it was over before it began.

[Duder]

Originally posted by KackstiftGER:

with AI modifiers and a few hostile empires you may not get to the endgame.. i tryed grand admiral mit ai modifier.. and a swarm next door had in year 2235 50k+ fleets.. it was over before it began.

Welp I'm playing on Ironman with just Commodore for now so I can learn all the new stuff that's changed since I've been gone. Grand Admiral, that's asking for it lol
However I believe I completed it on that with plenty of save scumming, that or Admiral can't remember.
I wonder how the modifiers play out on lower difficulties. I restart enough as it is, probably wont want to be screwed late game