couple of NEWBIE questions

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Originally posted by shamanblues:
First off I wouuld like to say SE4 is pretty damn good. Ive played SE3 and liked that so I just got SE4. Now to the Questions. 1). In SE3 you were able to tell your ministers that did ship design what kind of weapons you perfered (ie torpedo/beam). I dont see that luxury in SE4....am I missing something or is the game? 2). Ive noticed that the AI seems to like to pick fights often....I've been in many partnerships and for no Apparent reason they break the treaty and declare war....Is this a Bug? Thank you for listning!

1) Each race has individual AI_design.txt file. In all ship designs there is a list which specifies what weapons will be used on this particular design and how wepons should be changed along research progress. By editing this file, you can add multipple designs with different weapons. Best fan-made AI (collected in TDM-ModPack) often have fleets with ships equiped with different weapons.

2) You can play with AI aggression by editing race specific AI_anger and AI_politics files. You can make them either total pacifists or berzerk xenophobes.