Horemvore, if I can make a suggestion. I love the way you modded terraforming techs. Is there a way to 'limit' the number per tech? So instead of all 'salvageable' tiles being done perhaps 5 on one and 5 more on the next tier up? For example I play almost always the Thalan tech tree but I know that the Terran one also follow the Thalan one in regards to Terraforming. The first two techs in that line are normally terraform 'one salvageable' tile.
Your mod allows me to do ALL of them upon researching that one tech which will usually in most cases be 10 to 20 tiles depending on planet. It can quickly take a class 7 planet up to 20 or 30 with enough production. Is there a way to fix or scale the number of tiles allowed but still interest the player to keep going up the line?
I need to balance that a bit. Your not the first to mention this.
Do 'Gifted' AI still suffer from Fog of War? If so Ill bump back up to gifted after this game, otherwise if you tell me how Ill mod it so they do, that is the only perk I do not want the ai to have as a bonus on difficulty.
Internal code. (I do not see it in the "Handicap List"). And its debatable if its there or not on Gifted. I have thought of redoing the difficulties due to this. Getting rid of the Very easy and Easy. Making Very Easy, Normal and grading up from there, so we would end up with 2 more difficulties past Godlike.
If memory serves the modded terraforming tech work by stipulating the percentage of land a sector has for the terraforming improvement to work. I agree with larsenex that the initial tech gives too much at once, fun but too much of a good thing. Making the land percentage higher for the initial techs might be a good way to limit the effect until the last tech is discovered at which point the entire planet becomes free game.
85% is my limit 
Another improvement would be to give the last tech the ability to be mounted as a tech on colony ships to terraform dead planets like the mercenary ship can. That would reduce the need to play everything on abundant or even common
Something else I am toying with tbh. Planet creation is a possibility with Star Trek, Genesis anyone?
Anyone tried the Starfleet Academy yet?
