The re-addition of the ideology point generating projects are already included.

I might unlock them lower. I'd still like to make sure it's a solution which benefits both tall and wide reasonably equally, though.

Thanks!

I'm about 200 turns into my first full play-through of the mod in it's current state (done soaks but not actually played end-to-end), and tbh I'm really enjoying myself. I'm third overall (against normal AIs!). While I'm still massacring them in combat, the AI seems to have gotten over it's inability to make fleets - I'm killing lots of individual ships, but it scared the crap out of me with 2 full-strength armadas coming out of nowhere... and this is a weakling civ I decided to dismember. I'm genuinely quite scared of the big empires in the middle of the galaxy; one of them just went from 30 ships to 300 in the space of about five turns...

I could really use some help, if anyone fancies it. I need to go through the techs and change all the ones which give -maintenance bonuses to buildings to give something else, as buildings don't have maintenance now. The AI is blissfully unaware of this, and still researches the crap techs; I'd like to switch the building maintenance to colony maintenance at a 5-1 exchange rate (5% reduced building maintenance = 1% reduced colony maintenance). That should make the AI even more effective.

I've swapped all the improvement maintenance bits to colony maintenance. Haven't done the number changes; someone else will have to do that.

Bug report: 

AI has Durantium at -117.  

Also, one of the Iridium races is pumping out huge amounts of low tier starships... but they don't have planetary invasion yet. 

Unless of course this was their plan? 

Sneak peak at the changelog for 0.5:

* Maintenance reductions from techs now apply to overall colony maintenance; effect divided by a factor of 5. With thanks to Lavo_2
* Reworked Approval. 100% approval now offers no bonuses. Less than 100% approval directly impacts on production, growth, resistance and influence at a 1-to-1 ratio - so 50% approval gives -50% production, growth, resistance and influence output.
* All growth bonuses from tech and improvements are now flat, aside from adjacency-granted ones.
* Tourism reworked. Tourist buildings now add a (very) small flat approval bonus to the whole empire.

* Tourism bonuses buffed; base tourism value reduced.

* Tourism buildings are now no longer 1-per-colony.

* Restaurant of Enternity now gives a very big (200%) tourism buff to just the planet it's on; now adds a 25% empire-wide approval multiplier.

* AI now makes more use of tourism buildings on Influence worlds; is slightly better at handling approval.

I'm hoping to firstly make approval more important for holding back 'tall' worlds, since presently they're getting a bit too powerful toward the endgame. Now that LEP is out of the way, I can pretty much just tailor approval to work as a single-build-queue restriction, which gives me free reign.

Secondly, I want to try and make tourism buildings actually USEFUL, and tourism tech LESS useful. Just rushing tourism for the free bonus cash should now be less effective, but a dedicated tourist world will not only produce a decent cash flow, but will also permit you to 'outsource' approval somewhat.

Already did; annoyingly, it's xml is simply calling a n effect in the C (and so isn't directly adjustable). I can switch out the effect for something else, but I've not decided what would be best yet.

have you changed the mod today should I redownload the mod.

Uploaded 0.5 - Vid, I've borrowed the fix for the AI not using it's transports properly and credited you in the changelog, hope that's OK.

No. Frankly, I was going to update it this week, but decided against it due to the number of bugs and general instability in 1.1, which means there's likely to be a lot of changes before it goes live. I'll only be making the mod for full release versions of the game from now on, I think.

Probably a good idea. I  am opted in and haven't had any serious issues. Most of the mods seem to work. However, they are not on the scope of yours and I doubted it would work. I look forward to trying it later.

Yeah, that ought to be nerfed like the others - think I mist've skipped it when I was reducing all the colony resource bonuses because % growth was rubbish then. Will knock it down to +2%.

Only real way to do that is switching them from diplomatic to expansionist. I do still need to run through all the tech trees and adjust the weights... That's not going to be a fun job.

Yes, I've noticed that the money-grubbing AIs do rather well. Though I don't mind them trading with you so much tbh - I've made the AI charge more for stuff, so it'll generally be getting a decent deal from you anyway, and once I've set about balancing the stuff on the diplo screen more effectively it shouldn't matter too much.

Yeah, I opted in to try the upgrade last night; game just crashed on building the galaxy (the worst kind of crash to debug). I figured I'm not gonna sit here figuring out how to get it working on a half-built patch that probably won't work when it comes to actual release; I will, however, continue with a 1-release-a-week cycle for the present. Expect the 1.10-compatible version to emerge the week 1.1 goes live, and then I'll start tinkering with cool new stuff from the patch the following week.

Sadly, not do-able - SD would have to add that into the schema, which we simply can't do anything about.

Well, boy was I talking out my backside with this one - I can just code the xml to check for the trait and then apply something a bit more reasonable. Will tweak this for next week's release.