Really? Crashed and burned for me.

I already made terraforming projects repeatable. Not sure how the game would handle a planet losing spaces if they're occupied, so no to negative quality - but a small (-1-2%) negative growth modifier could certainly be considered.

Yeah, think I was a little too worried about how hard approval would hit it; that said, with 5 times as much food around growth rates do need to be higher than vanilla anyway, and I'd rather keep it so you can make 1 world growth faster than several provided it has the development level for it. I'm fairly happy for planets to pick up 0.5 growth reasonably early, since late-game planets can manage several hundred population from 5-6 food tiles presently.

I think that very fast (7+ movement) early-game blueprints ought to be built for AI colony ships. I use them to great effect in order to evade pirates and rapidly colonize my local cluster(s).

Sneak Peak at 0.6 (not yet released):

* Ancient races now get +10% research per colony per artifact they own. This should make the benefit a little less impressive. I may need to buff it.
* Ascension Crystals now give a global +10% productivity for each one owned, so they're not completely useless in non-crystal victory games.
* ArtocarpusViriles bonus reduced into line with other planet resources.
* AI will now send transports to attack any war enemy planet within 256 hexes of said transport.
* Planets in influence rebellion now suffer from -approval rather than -cash
* Added Strategic Repair modifier to hulls to give them 10% repair per turn - with thanks to Sansloi37 for coming up with the methodology for doing this.
* Shipyards now give +500% repair rate to ships on the same hex
* Starbases now give +200% repair rate to ships on the same hex.
* Nerfed Tactical Repair a fair bit.
* Tiny ships now logistically cheaper; large and huge hulls now logistically more expensive.
* T-1 Ideology buildings produce slightly more ideology points.
* T3 Evil and Good buildings now include ideology point per turn multipliers rather than flat bonuses. This means they buff the T1s.
* Arbitration center reworked to be much less gash. Is now colony-unique rather than player-unique; now gives fewer ideology points per turn, now adds +100% approval to the planet it's built on (instead of tourism). Still increased Influence.
* Military ring for starbases now adds tactical repair to the starbase and increases all of it's military stats by 25%, making it much tougher against small raids.
* Luxury trade routes now twice as powerful.
* Entrepreneurs now get +25% approval from their trade routes.
* Free Trade treaties now give +2 trade licenses.
* Most treaties now never expire by default
* Allowed paid-for treaties to be broken after 30 turns (down from 50).
* Exporters ideology trait now gives +50% trade licenses.
* Indispensible ideology trate effect doubled.
* Appreciative now gives a flat +10 approval to ALL planets, not 5 for the first 5.
* Loyal now increases resistance by 50% - with the increased population, this makes Benevolent planets really hard to take.
* Swapped Prominence 3 (take all planets in influence) and Prominence 5 (universal +25% influence).
* Changed Prominence 4 from giving +50% influence on starbases to a flat +1
* Skilled now gives +50% research to all planets (about 2 research centers worth for worlds that are researching; no effect on planets which are not).
* Breakthrough now makes all research buildings 25% cheaper to build.
* Quantum Leap now gives +100% research globally rather than a flat 5 research.

100% research isn't that much by the time you get it, though - it's like 2 free research buildings on planets specialized for research.

Once the game's in progress you can't - that savegame will always have them.

Which means that the OTHER level 5's are underpowered (the ones that give +50% morale and +25% production).  

Updated to 0.6.

WHAT HAVE YOU CREATED???????

(Set all of the AI to expansionist.  THEY'RE OUT EXPANDING ME ON SUICIDAL DIFFICULTY).  

How did this happen???? HOW????????? HOW????????????

THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!!!! I AM SUPPOSED TO BE INVINCIBLE.  INVINCIBLE!!!!!

How will this mod work on normal-sized maps?

I'm trying to decide between this mod and Vid's Better Wartime AI; I read in that thread that these two were incompatible.

Is it possible to have two mods installed, but select which mod is active in a specific game?

Thanks in advance

This might be a crazy suggestion, but perhaps let military rings be added on in addition to any other single ring? Unless the changes are substantial, and they may very well be, military starbases have always seemed like an utter waste to me.

For the next version, I'm removing the durantium cost from hulls and instead quadrupling maintenance. The AI doesn't seem to respect the effect, and it's a bit crippling on low-durantium maps. I've also removed the inherent growth bonus on techs which unlock growth bonus buildings, and I'm going to change the Hyperion buildings to give faction-wide bonuses and change the cheesier adjacency bonuses (no more quadrupling hull space with a level 27 hyperion shrinker).