...and it's showing up again. Huh. I had it up for one game and then it disappeared, but now it's back again. Not sure what's going on DX

Thats true. It should show up. I haven't removed anything yet.

That's odd, it should show up
No reason why it wouldn't

So, I'm subscribed to this mod (and your weapons diversity), but it isn't showing up in my launcher? Is that because of your upcoming update?

No plans. But i will be updating the mod soon

Any plans to make this compatible with downscaled ships? I mean it technically is compatible, but the size difference really screws it for me. Nice mod otherwise though.

I mean I feel that. I end up spending more time setting up things, and debugging conflicts than actually playing the game.

Its more that i work 55h a week. So im kinda dead when i get home.

Good to hear. No rush though, better something done right than done fast eh?

Very good overall. AI ships are in, Balance improvements are moving along nicely. Currently im just trying to work out some GFX additions. I have no idea when ill be updating it, but im by no means dead.

How's the progress chap?

Ihad a serious system crash on my MOBO. I was unable to backup all my work on RIG and the AI shipset. I guess it will take a while longer.

It's not so much an issue with the game. Its mostly to do with an understanding of cause and effect. The way its coded is if X happens, do Y. So it requires a person like myself to code options of how it should act against X. Its possible to code good AI, but its extremely complex.

To be fair thats an issue with the game right, Really liking the more aesthetic humanoid battleship sections by the way

The Ai will use the new hulls over the default, always. But as to building really well thought out fleet comps, thats hit and miss.

Working on that. They tend to go ok with various economic buffs. Givne that the AI operates like water down a stream, ive dammed some of the typical paths. But they operate as one would expect. Not perfect, but im working on that atm.

How well does the AI handle the new options in the mod? I'm liking the changes but don't want to be walking over AI empires because they can't build sensible ships.

No problem! Thanks for your quick reply.

Im still not fully happy with their overall purpose that im aiming for.

Nope, not in yet. I meant my current build. That was poor communication from me.

I don't see them as an option, are they not implemented in the public build yet? or am I causing a conflict?

Current build is the default Cybrex looking Shipsets.

Are you planning on using the Vanilla AI shipset? Or maybe something like the "Networked Intelligence" shipset?

if someone does make a patch for NSC, good luck.

sounds like a nice mod but i will wait to see if anyone will make a compatibity patch for it to be used with NSC until then i'll put this on my to play eventually list (gonna stay subscribed to it though)

Yep, i would expect that. Ill be adding some more modules in RIGWD to help ballance that out.

Plantoid ships really get slammed by weapons that bypass shields =/

I really should take the time to improve them. But, they should be using the weapons. They do in my games.

Will you be buffing Fallen Empire ships as their ships are woefully undergunned compared to the enhanced sections on almost all gfxcultures, as well as using inferior vanilla weapons (for weapon diversity)

Doubt it would have any issues. The prompt is more about how the game is coded. All modders have to tell the game that the mod is compat. I have yet to try the beta patch.

are there any problems with 2.2.7? games says it's incompatible, but I don't see that anything relevant to the mod changed

So im back into modding this. Im working on a whole host of updates to the code, as well as compat for the AI shipset.

100%. Currently my time is consumed with work, youtube, Apex, as well as a number of other little childhood games such as starwars gal battlegrounds. The Ion platforms have unique bonuses tho. So thats atleast something. When im overall this other baggage, and my attention returns to Stellaris, ill be jumping on that. as well as Unique platform sections. As well as the original 3 platform weight classes.

Would it be possible to add species unique defence platform sections in the future?

Im mostly playing with the specific weapon sizes bonus. This is in preps for additional ship types to fill other roles.

balance wise i find the size restriction on the weapon bonuses hurts more than helps, kinda makes one section setup the go to no matter your tech level instead of adding variety like RIG did before the new version, or you could try the reverse and make it so that size was what the bonus affected. but its your call ill keep using it regardless

Your always welcome to help me balance by providing ideas towards that goal.

I really like the idea of this mod, but I have one big issue : the balance is complete wack. Not because of the fancy bonus, but because of the new sections. They don't follow the balance of the old sections, provide way waay more slots, notably auxiliary ones. Since the old sections are not removed, it means the AI is even worse at designing ships that it usually is. It also throws out the economical balance of the game quite a bit, since the prices are not aligned at all.

It would really prefer it it was all toned down: remove the old sections, add your new ones, but balanced in similar price and power range compared to the normal ones. And don't give billions of auxiliary slots that make cruisers faster than corvettes.

Hmm. Ill look into it when my addiction to Apex is over.

I've got the same problem as ShardTooth has with Realistic ships. An extra Component slot appears on the ship types Realistic Ships adds and I can't save the ship design as an error message say Shipdesigner_savefail_wrong_required_components

i'v encountered an issue with Realistic ships when i have this mod active an extra UI slot appears, I think its the racial role bonus slot, which prevents me from saving any of the RS ship designs. I don't know if i'm just having a bug or not, but if you'd look in to it if you don't mind. thanks

I am as well.

Its the default guns on my bases. Plus im using my weapons mod too.

I'm not experiencing that right now so I don't know if some other mod is replacing that functionality issue or not? Right now I'm looking at one of my starbases I just upgraded and it's using blue lasers and a missile.

One thing thats bothering me, is that starbase weapons seem to be locked to kinetic weapons.

Note this is with some mods I'm not entirely sure on the compat, not just rig by itself. There's no direct file conflicts but who knows what the prefix merge step does afterwards on similar files.

As glavius is higher alphabetically than RIG, any changes directly to rig will get overwritten. Also I've been noticing that the ai isn't using the species modules even if I start the game after making the RIG stuff primary. Weird.

I didnt know that the strikecraft was overwritten. I could make a patch for that over the weekend.

You can also use Glaviu's ai with this mod but you have to take the ship templates and the strike craft txts out of RIG and put them in a new mod that's named alphabetically higher like "!!!Apatch" or something. Obviously this means that the ai doesn't use glav's weighting for ship templates or strike craft but whatev.

Odd, it really should work together. As the tech is removed from the tree. It is granted to you at the start. So even if you have some mod which reworks the tree, it shouldnt be effected. What mod were you using?