Do I need to start a new game for these to take effect? Also exactly what do I need to copy over to have these work. Note that I am not a modder nor programmer type person.

Thx .. neilkaz ..

and in case that I am using AI Tweaks+ESL.... ?

Thanks for making thise mods, if I will find out anything disturbing, I will warn you

Horemvore. I am going to finish my Star Trek game. It will likely be another week (maybe) and Ill remove all your mods and reDL an updated GST. 

What if i DONT want the ship priorities changed? It seem very confusing on organizing my ships. Now it feels LIke I should just make all the ships as Guardians or Capitals. There is no point at all in making a 'tanking' ship if it does  not draw fire. So you make your capital a 'Support ship' Granted its still in the back and now you make your escorts change them to 'capitals' Only now the ai (which is now all assaults or escorts or interceptors) just zooms past the capitals on to the supports. The priority seems very odd. I get that we are trying to 'fix' the game to be challenging. Support ships are now a top priority on the pirate and ai..

I may just make my entire fleets all Escorts mixed with all guardians and see how that plays out....

BattleBehaviorDefs.xml, just delete it, its in the Improved AI/Game folder.

IAB is what I actually based the AI Tweaks off. I was including IAB's diplomacy in GST for a while, upto 1.71 which broke it. I was waiting for it to be updated to re include it, but I hear along the grape vine it got discontinued due to the mod author been "Encouraged to leave the forums". Hense I made ID. I will take another look at what he did to increase invasion range.

Cant find a AI Mod by Deathwynd though.

Error when I tried start game:
C:\Users\----------\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Improved AI\Game\AIStrategyDefs.xml(1187,17): error:
element 'PreferToRush' is not allowed for content model '(ShipClass,BuildFirst?,MaintenanceCreditPerTurnMultipleBuffer?,PreferToRush?,MinCount?,Weight)'

C:\Users\----------\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Improved AI\Game\AIStrategyDefs.xml(1201,17): error:
element 'PreferToRush' is not allowed for content model '(ShipClass,BuildFirst?,MaintenanceCreditPerTurnMultipleBuffer?,PreferToRush?,MinCount?,Weight)'

C:\Users\----------\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Improved AI\Game\AIStrategyDefs.xml(1259,15): error:
element 'PreferToRush' is not allowed for content model '(ShipClass,BuildFirst?,MaintenanceCreditPerTurnMultipleBuffer?,PreferToRush?,MinCount?,Weight)'

C:\Users\----------\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Improved AI\Game\AIStrategyDefs.xml(1273,15): error:
element 'PreferToRush' is not allowed for content model '(ShipClass,BuildFirst?,MaintenanceCreditPerTurnMultipleBuffer?,PreferToRush?,MinCount?,Weight)'

C:\Users\----------\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Improved AI\Game\AIStrategyDefs.xml(1331,15): error:
element 'PreferToRush' is not allowed for content model '(ShipClass,BuildFirst?,MaintenanceCreditPerTurnMultipleBuffer?,PreferToRush?,MinCount?,Weight)'

C:\Users\----------\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Improved AI\Game\AIStrategyDefs.xml(1345,15): error:
element 'PreferToRush' is not allowed for content model '(ShipClass,BuildFirst?,MaintenanceCreditPerTurnMultipleBuffer?,PreferToRush?,MinCount?,Weight)'

I've shelved GC3 for awhile and hadn't checked the forums lately.  Thanks for the credit Horemvore.

Question?: Are starbases and shipyards engaging in concert with their defenders, or are they still engaging separately?

Oops.

I am attempting to get the AI to at least try for a Cutlure war. It works well in GST for the Ferengi (Base Iconians or Iridians cant remember lol), a few game now I see them with most their worlds having 4-6 influence, and a couple with 12+. The other reason I added consulates is to try and make it harder for players to culture flip the AI.

1.81 Hotfix is up on OP.

Hum, I just saw, that the AI has no influence starbase governor! This means it doesn't build it, right?

Also interesting for the diplomacy modifier.