My goodness is modding shipsets to make a ship style out of custom designed ships for the AI to play hard!
I've been trying to piece together ship set files for AI opponent species from the custom designed ships on the steam workshop.
Even with Gauntlet's immensely good shipset tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyuzaYS0ewY), the amount of labour of love in updating the ships sets files with the steamworkshop ships AND trying to ensure that they all match a basic shipstyle from the core alien species is too much to bear. Even as a labour of love.
Are Stardock considering making this any easier? It would add so much depth to what is a beautiful game and really make it the player's own. I'd like to pitch if I could for some easier way of designing shipsets from the designs that users put up - perhaps geting rid of the need for them to have a base shipset style!
Any thoughts anyone?