One small thing Atrocities. I'd meant to mention this long ago, but never did. I'm not a beta tester for the latest Version, so you may have already fixed this....but here it is anyways.
I noticed that couple of hundred turns into my game, none of the AI races would use ships over about 500kT in size. I of course was using ships way way bigger. They never did use larger ships, and so it was actually quite easy to defeat them once I had the larger ships. I know that they've researched the larger ships, because their minesweeper class ships use their largest ship sizes. I presume this might be a problem with their ship design txt files.
Hope this helps you out a little bit, sorry if this has already been addressed.
Thanks for all the hard work that's going into making this mod even better than it already is

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