Before reading this thread and the one that spells out the AI construction control file so nicely, I had wondered why my comparitively "under-gunned" ships did so well against the enemy. I get it now! Support, support, support!
Does the AI acknowledge at all that units can be built without ship yards? A nice tweak, and one I'd assume would require coding changes by MM, would be if the AI would go ahead and build those units at colonies without yards (just as I myself do) while the ships and carriers are being constructed at the space yards. After adjusting the amount of units called for, this could make a *huge* difference in the military base constructed by the AI.
I wanted to say thanks to you, [K126]Mephisto, Tampa_Gamer, and the other modders and explainers. I'm dying for the soon-to-come time when I can finally explore all these mods in the detail they deserve! Thanks for the effort put in towards them! Maybe sometime soon, I can get in on the fun and put some of the ideas floating around in my head into testing. 8)