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SJ,
How do get the AI to use your Capital Ship Engines only on Capital Ships (assuming that is what there are designed for). I can understand that the larger ships will use them if they are the best available, but how you prevent a 250Kt size ship from using it.
That's a good point.
I've been thinking about how to get P&N AIs to use some of the powerful armor, and this is what I've got:
-Give your normal engines a "mineral resource generation" ability, and give the Capital engines an organics generation ability.
-Those particular abilities don't have any effect on ships, but you can call for them in your shipdesigns.txt!
Thus, you can have the larger ship designs use a single Capital engine and then add on regular engines to suit.
Or, alternatively, you could make the Capital engines a exact scale copy of the normals, and have the AI not use capitals via the above method.