StarTech AI

This is a fork of another AI mod, Starnet AI that is intended to create the galaxy filled with progress, expansion and technology. This mod will improve AI economy, technological choices, ship design and everything I was able to find to be moddable. The intention of this mod is to use all the fallback and economy management improvements of my first AI mod, Starnet, but focus much more on the technological and expansive side. AI will prefer to expand and grow cooperatively instead of joining the arms race (at least at the start of the game) and this change will have long-lasting consequences. How is this different from Starnet? Military is expensive in Stellaris. To command a substantial military you need to employ dozens of extra metallurgists making alloys, mine a lot more minerals to make those alloys and have huge amount of technicians/clerks that will pay for an ongoing upkeep of this military. Because of this massive upkeep cost an empire with no military will have no problems outscaling an empire with military very quickly, sometimes as quickly as 20 years might be end up being uncatchably ahead. Any time two empires meet they end up in a prisoners dilemma, if they cooperate and avoid military they can grow more, but if any of them defects they can easily double their power for low cost. It's impossible to tell how would an extinction-scale galactic prisoner's dilemma be resolved, especially given the species differences and it is this resolution what makes the main difference between this mod and Starnet. In Starnet all empires try to cooperate (avoid military) for some time, but eventually one of the militaristic empires will defect and start shipbuilding. After that is noticed all neighbours start their own militarisation to avoid being eaten and this creates a galactic chain reaction, eventually everyone defects and starts having a standing military. While this "Dark Forest" process is quite flavourful, unfortunately it doesn't take human players into acco