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Baron, you can "program" the AI to build more small ships if you give them more designs. I do this in Proportions because the small ships don't become "obsolete" the way they do in the standard set, so AI's continue to build a mix of ship sizes even when large ships are available.

This also uncovered another advantage of doing this (which originally was done to get the QNP engines right on AI designs): it allows the AI to upgrade smaller ships. It turns out that the AI won't upgrade a small ship if it has a larger design of the same type that it wants, because it will design the largest ship available for each design type it knows how to make. So, if you have one design per size bracket, it will upgrade the ships even when their size is not the largest the empire knows about.

I also tried out the gravitic cloaking for small ships idea. I kind of liked it except for the need to order to "cloak" small ships. However I decided it was overly complicated to add to the standard Proportions mod. I agree though that it would be nice to add range into the detection formula, although there are higher things on the urgency list.

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