Stellar AI

Make Stellaris AI smarter, more strategic, and more fun to play against! The previous 4. 3 version is at:: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3748476209 The vanilla job levels mod page is at: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3686836322 Stellar AI Stellar AI shifts the AI toward a heavily research-focused playstyle. Research is treated as the AI's main long-term goal, while industry, energy, rural production, expansion, and military development support that focus. The result is an AI that feels more coherent, competitive, and believable without relying on hidden AI-only bonuses. The 4. 4 update preserves this core design through a clearer progression: expand and research gradually from the capital, establish raw resources and consumer goods, reserve suitable research worlds early, then fill those worlds and accelerate science once the foundation is secure. Strong research and industry are later converted into fleet power. The focus remains on stability, balance, and making a genuine research strategy viable. Early Game Focus Standard empires use an early expansion-focused personality for roughly the first 40 years while at peace. War immediately restores their normal personality and military behavior. The AI invests deliberately in expansion, raw resources, and consumer goods instead of overcommitting to fleets or advanced production too early. Peacetime fleet spending is restrained while basic resources are unstable, helping build reserves for later wars. Early research remains meaningful on the capital. The first non-capital research role is reserved after the opening expansion, but laboratories wait until the economic foundation can support them. Aggressive and genocidal personalities still invest more heavily in military power and react earlier to threats. Research-Focused Progression Research remains the AI's main long-term objective throughout the game. Stable empires begin a stronger research acceleration around year 45,