Skills Matter Less

Overview

Combat AI in the base game is heavily dependent on the skill level of the pilots. The difference between 0 star pilots and 5 star pilots is night and day. This is not inherently a bad thing, but does lead to the AI making a lot of... really bad choices.

This mod reworks their effectiveness to the following:

Impacted Mechanics

All AI can now use boosts in combat, and will use them wisely.

All AI are now vastly better at dogfighting.

All AI are now far better at breaking off attack runs to reposition when threatened.

All AI are now faster at recalculating their next moves in general.

Service Crew now have their near full repair capabilities to start with.

Boarding is partially impacted. It does not modify the strength value of marines, but does offer (slightly) increased responsiveness in ships doing boarding actions.

What this mod does not do

Requirements for behaviors, such as autotrading, are not impacted.

Non-ship related stats, such as the distance limit for managers, are not impacted.

Overhaul the AI in any major way. It simply allows all vanilla npcs to make use of the base game's features.

Compatibility

This mod should have no compatibility issues with new ship mods.

Personally confirmed functional with VRO.

Personally confirmed functional with Reemmergence.

Personally confirmed functional with KUDA. (As this mod is intended to bolster vanilla logic, this effectively amounts to making sure KUDA has the right of way whenever they conflict.)