Stellar AI experiment

Make Stellaris AI smarter, more strategic, and more fun to play against! Experimental Version This is an experimental version of Stellar AI. In this version, research job output is set to match Stellaris 4. 3 vanilla values. The goal is to evaluate how this impacts AI performance, balance, and overall gameplay feel compared to the main version. Based on feedback and observed results, I may either keep this as a separate version or incorporate parts of it into the main mod. As this is an experimental version, continued support is not guaranteed. Focus is currently on stability, balance, and maintaining the core design. 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 l