Darkspire
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ORIGINAL: Plant Yes Deathball, it sounds like you are talking out of your hat. I took a look at the legends guide Darkspire, but there doesn't seem to be anything on optimised designs. Could you point out the section for me, please? My bad, I just presumed it was in the modding guide, I have not read it for a while. Here are the details, the optimized designs were introduced in Legends .16 Darkspire quote:
Pre-loaded Optimized Designs Added new feature that allows usage of pre-made custom ship and base designs loaded per race from folders at game startup: New designs subfolder under main game folder can contain subfolders for each race containing saved design files, e.g. "C:\Matrix Games\Distant Worlds\designs\human\" These design folders are also used by any themes/mods (i.e. you can create a designs subfolder cointaining race subfolders in a theme) These designs are loaded for each race at game startup and are used as optimized designs for each empire These optimized designs are used whenever an empire has all the required tech and is within current construction size limits. These optimized designs are always preferred over all other designs, unless made obsolete If multiple optimized designs for a single subrole can be built (e.g. multiple optimized destroyer designs), then the most advanced design will be preferred Optimized designs also guide AI research decisions: preference will be given to research projects with components required by the optimized designs Because of the above, you should make custom designs that use the racespecific tech and tech focuses (from Empire Policy) for the race, otherwise there will be many required research paths, and research will be diluted, e.g. Boskara designs should utilize Shaktur Firestorm torpedoes (race-specific tech), and Phasers (Empire Policy tech focus)
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