Good day admirals,
A couple of pretty basic modding questions:
- I enjoy the aggressiveness of cruel AI on Admiral, but I'd rather reduce their monetary bonus a little. Which file and strings do I have to mess with?
- Is such modification save-friendly? That means, can I continue my current game after messing with the files?

I also take the opportunity for a harder question.
- It seems to me that, in Thrawn's Revenge, the AI only attacks when the odds are so much in its favour that victory is 300% guaranteed. I.e., if I am defending a planet with a 300 pop fleet, they'd either assemble a 700-pop fleet (at least) of Star Destroyer-level ships or leave me completely alone. Of course, even with the best static defenses, it is outright impossible for the player to beat such odds, and the only solution is to save your fleet and let the enemy annihilate your Golans and Valdusia.
As an EAW player since the origins, I remember the days when defensive space battles were a lot of fun and, with good manuevering and some heavy losses, you could win the day 'cause the AI would attack with a 400/450 pop fleet - not 700/800.
Is there a parameter I can mess with to persuade the AI to attack with slightly worse odds and smaller fleets?
- Again, would such modification force me to start a new game?

Thanks a lot in advance.