One Last item for now.
A quick aside about AI design creation files if you are working on those. A helpful hint for when you are making size specific designs is to assign exact "spaces per one" values for the design.
For example:
The design is for a 280kT destroyer. You want it to have 2 shield generators, so the "exact" spaces per one value is 280/2 = 140. You also want it to have 4 armor panels, so the spaces per one value is 280/4 = 70.
A helpful way to do this, is to make an actual in game, optimized design yourself. Then simply make entries in the design creation file for all the non-weapon components at their exact "spaces per one" value. Then the rest of the design should be automatically filled with the appropriate weapons and mounts...
Another item I came across while making a design creation file for the Space Food Empires mod is that you can set engines and movement values to 0, and call for them instead using AI tags and it works just as well - and is even better because you can make even "cleaner" designs if that's your thing.
