newbie askin some kinda questions

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Hi all !

first thing to say sorry if my english isnt the best beacause i speak and write german normally so its a bit hard for me :-) please dont flame me for that.

Here now the questions :

1. Whats up with adding components ?

I have a few ideas about adding some components to the game but heard or read that i have to add it to each races ai.
is this true ?
and how does it work ?
( i have about 40 races at the moment in my mod )

2. Whats about intel ?

isnt intel destroying the game.
At the normal game it runs like this.
A war begins
enemy is bombing you outa hell with intel projects every turn
your planets begin raging
you cant built intel if ya dont needed it before you dont have it ( its in my games that i never build intel at the first say 100 turns or so.

3. Enemys

the other empires are kinda stupid i think
i meet one empiere.
have small sats as defens about 20 pieces
the turn after the meeting he rushes with about 50 ships and kill my sats and crush the planet without any warnings ?
is that normal ?
i dont think so
that also happens in the normal game either with any modded ai.

hope i get some answers from the people in here

greets

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