@perl
thank you very much for your positive feedback! i appreciate it!
regarding your question about the collection: if you want to use this mod with my "How i play Aesthetic Cinematic Gameplay" collection, then simply put it directly after Aesthetic Cinematic Gameplay when it comes to mod loading order. that should do it just fine :)

Awesome mod. Could you add this to the ACG Collection?

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like stated within the mod description:
the following mods are required and mandatory to use with ACG Return of the Ancients:
ACG + UIOD + UIOD Extended Topbar
this mod however:
ACG Icons UI Addition
is not required to use with ACG Return of the Ancients (or ACG). this mod is completely optional.

that said some UI and icon changes are included into the main mod. so the ACG Icons UI Addition mod does only cover the part that is optional. the other adjustments and changes that have been made and included into ACG main mod can't be excluded

i hope i could help. have fun!

Is there anyway to us this WITHOUT the UI mod? I find it EXTREMELY hard to read, almost to the point of I cannot tell what's going on.

Perfect, Thanks you verry much !!! :)

@Inerael
there are two kind of new buildings for ACG fallen empires that are playable with this mod. the first ones are the ones you start with. you basically don't unlock those and they are part of ACG Return of the Ancients mod content. the second type of fallen empire buildings are buildings that you unlock during late game, which are part of stellaris itself (introduced with machine age and with vanilla are usually available to cosmogenesis). i made those fallen empire buildings available to ancient fallen empires. but you won't start with them. you unlock them over time while researching the system efficiency for your fallen empire ships. once you reached a late game stage you will receive the first level of fallen empire buildings. the second level will be received later on. this is only part of late game because those buildings would be overpowered if you received them early on

hey, amazing mod thanks you ! :)
Just wondering, how do you unlock those new building please ?

@Inerael
no there is no custom AI interaction like you are a fallen empire, also because it's a different approach. with this mod you are basically developing and evolving into becoming a stronger empire like another empire even though you are starting with a lot of tech and ships etc. but other empires do pose a threat to you because your fallen empire got huge nerfs and you need to overcome them over time. it's not like you could help other nations or like you would dominate other nations more than other empires could in their stage of development. this mod was meant to offer an alternative gameplay but at the same time it's meant to be balanced and offer a kind of similar development curve like other empires

amazing, thanks you ! Just wondering , does like Zenith mod, does the ai interact with you like you are a fallen empire or not ?

@Ricenami
yes

Will this be updated to 3.12 when ACG is updated to 3.12?

shame its not standalone mod

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@overrclocked (p2)
if you f.e. chose to have slower pop growth, less colonizable planets, slower research speed, all of that would benefit the ancient ACG empires of this mod because their progression for ship strength is vastly based on events that are based on time. in addition there is a RNG element to it. so if you are super lucky then you will get better ship efficiencies through the event chain earlier, and if you are unlucky, it would be later. i will make some more testruns to see if adjustments are needed when i have more time again. unfortunately i am very busy with my job and family right now. thanks for your feedback though

@overrclocked (p1)
during early game ancient empire ships should be worse. during late game they get better. however, i balanced this mod before some changes to slower research progression have been made that might also have influenced ACG. so what i want to say is: maybe the progression of how fast event-based you are able to unlock better ships would need to be prolonged. that said, it also highly depends on other game settings you chose.

On my first play-through of this. Great, but the ships are so overpowered I never lose a battle, even when fleet power is quit over matched. I think the problem is that every ship has fighters and they are individually very tough to kill, so they last much longer than I think is fair.

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Okie doke I figured I’d ask :0

I really liked the origins of becoming a fallen empire, anywho keep up the awesome work :3

@Vivo
that's not going to happen. ACG is a total overhaul and this mod is made for ACG mod users who want to play as some kind of fallen empire. just like ACG can not be used together with other such mods, it would also not make sense to try to use this mod without ACG. besides this mod does only include a very tiny part in order to activate the fallen empire origins for ACG mod users. the main part of this mod's content is basically included and built-in with ACG.

Any/what are your thoughts about making this a standalone origin mod from ACG? I’ve played in ACG and had a blast and I’ve always liked playing a fallen empire. It’d be neat to have a standalone to have it along side zenith of fallen empires or dawn of ascension with acot!! No worries if not btw :3

ok.

@Larsen
no they do not. this mod's content has nothing to do with the archaeo engineering content (the only similarity might be that both contents are relying on minor artifacts)

Do the the unique ancient ship components gain any bonus from the Archaeo-Engineers Ascension Perk and other bonus from other Archaeo tech and leader bonus?

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@andres r
all my mods are tested and there are no features that they AI won't use. during my test runs the AI was using this mod just fine (like all my other mods as well). regarding your question if you can get ship designs without taking one of the origins offered by this mod: no. those origins offer unique content for those players/empires that took those origins

Also, as not having this origin, can I somehow still get these ship designs`? Like the mod "Standalone Ancient Ships" does?

What are the observations, how well does the AI play with this origin?

@Ixfiyrahe
if you are speaking about additional buildings, then like i said i would consider potentially adding some more in the future when i feel like they fit well into it and meet certain criteria (balance, compatibility and so on). i am not creating mods that i feel like are unbalanced.

Would you consider a sub-sub mod for those who wouldn’t mind it being un-balanced? Or maybe a setting to enable it?

FYI: This mod is still compatible with Stellaris 3.8.3

@Ixfiyrahe
right now - by using your words - you are doomed. maybe i will add more buildings and features in the future. however, when i created this mod i wanted to keep in mind that those new origins are as compatible with other mods as possible, while also making sure that the AI knows how to use all those features properly (which is a core pillar of ACG) and i also wanted to make sure that this mod's content can also be used in combination with as many vanilla features as possible for providing potential variety. i hope this helps to understand why those design decisions have been taken in the first place :)

Are you currently only able to have the 2 fallen empire buildings you start with? Haven't gotten a single non-vanilla building since game start, which has bummed me out quite a bit. 50% of the enjoyment of fallen empire experience mods is being able to build proper fallen empire worlds. Am I just missing something like an event or am I doomed to build vanilla buildings?

@Lavie

thank you for your positive feedback. i am happy if you are enjoying ACG and ACG Return of the Ancients. Regarding your feedback: thank you very much! i appreciate it and i think you are right! there could be better names indeed. unless Kusanagi (ACG Team member who helped with better flavor text in the past but did not have time to take a look at the ACG Return of the Ancient localisation afaik) already created new names. i am open-minded for implementing your suggestions :)

As for replicator, the name is fine but I think the more individualistic job name like " replicator archivist" might be better named as "replicator archiving/cataloguing drone".

It's kinda long already, so tl;dr my suggestion is hallowed/illuminated/preserver/reaper for the spiritualist/materalist/xenophile/xenophobes respectively

And maybe "Ancient Preserver" is a better opposition than "Ancient Enigmatic" to the "Ancient Reaper". IMHO Enigmatic isn't quite the definitive trait of Xenophile FE, it's the "observer" part.

If I must say a minor flaw about this, "ancient antique empire" doesn't quite convey the fanatic materialistic feel, and "ancient antique" is kind of redundant? Maybe "illuminated" or "enlightened" is a better word. (Especially the in game technocratic dictatorship is called "illuminated autocracy")

The only thing I wanted more from original ACG is to be this special snowflake that can do all the wonderful things and own cool ships used by FEs.

Now we even have special gameplay *designed* for it. Ajey just keeps delivers.

Your work is just simply amazing, stellaris wouldnt be the same without your mods

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thank you for your patience and support! have fun!

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**News: the new Paragon DLC of Stellaris was just released. I will buy this new DLC and i will update ACG again for 3.8. That said the previous major ACG update for the previous DLC First contact was just released two weeks ago. Those updates require a huge amount of time and effort. I need to balance real life and modding. Therefore it might take a bit until i am able to buy this new DLC and until i am able to start working on this new ACG update again. Please be patient. Thank you for your understanding!**

@{EXP} Sky Gaming
first of all thank you for your report! i just released a new update for ACG (main mod) that will include a fix to this issue (minor artifact stockpile reset), as well as a new update for the most current UIOD update. that said, please use the ☎️ Bug Report Thread if you want to let me know about any other potential bugs in the future. thank you in advance!

Thanks oh and Minor Artefacts seem broken, their stocpile seems to reset themself when i quit the game and then load the save again

@{EXP} Sky Gaming
PS: you will get a new notification and event window once the next milestone was reached. so just let your researchers do their work. they will let you know once they found a way to improve your ships :P

@{EXP} Sky Gaming
you don't see any progress bar in game. it can take quite some time and there is also a rng component to it. the first stabilization improvement will usually be achieved between 2250 and 2270 - depending on your luck, and on your previous decision whether you want to have a full or balanced focus on this research, as well as the point in time when made your decision.

the next milestones vary even more because they are depending on achieving the first step i.e. researchers can only start to improve stabilization even more after they achieved their previous goal. i don't want to spoiler much more because i think it's more interesting to experience this in game yourself. just don't be surprised if you don't get any further messages for many years. this is a long term project. if you could rush through it, then it would not be balanced. i hope i could help

How / when does the custom Event chain for the Ancient Empires start ?, since deciding to focus on the Ship Stabilisation research nothing else happend

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