In order for us modders to make better & more believable ai guidance, we need to pick the brains of other players with their own favorite races & tech pathways (i.e. try for x then y then z or q usually)
There are a couple of us modders working on making the various ai research pathways through their tech-trees. It might not be much of a secret that some appear nearly random as we've noted in discussions elsewhere.
So my question to the other players is as follows:
- What is your favorite race to play?
- When playing that race, there is almost certainly some strategies you follow when going through the tech tree, building colonies, etc in the first 50-100ish turns (age of exploration/maybe some war)
- what are the first couple techs that you almost always research right off the bat when the game first starts?
- once you have your cornerstone down what are your next couple regular targets in the tech tree?
- how do you build your colonies