Awesome I remember that line thats the ticket thanks for the help

Ken

Did you go into gameplay.constants and update the tier progression?

I'll try it out quickly when I get home, see what I get. Until then, I don't know

I may be wrong here, but I was under the impression that you always have 8 levels, but the number of research structures you need to get to each level can change. So, level 1 could need 4 labs to get to, then level 2 might need 10 labs, etc, etc...

I say this, because I have seen it done this way, and there are only 8 columns on the research screens.

Tiers are set at 8 as far as I can tell.

You can change the number of labs required to research a tier via tierLabCount-x as shown above.

Using the "Tier X" statement, you can change the tier of a specific research subject, which uses the tierlabcount to determine how many labs are required.

You could set all fleet research to tier 8 for example, meaning nobody does fleet research early.

You could also force multiple iterations of each level, or high prices, as other methods to slow it down.

I found that ANYTHING you do to slow down fleet or capitols dramatically will have a very adverse effect on the AI.

I really wanted to delay capitols until after cruisers but ended up giving up on it, everything that denied the AI a quick capitol made it braindead. I got the best results with simply making build time on capitol factories and capitol ships to be extremely long, but even this retarded AI development too much.

If I modify the gameplay.constants file that will affect, all players in the game including the AI which is something I am trying to avoid. Unless I manually went in to all the other races and say made it very cheap and fast to build/access all ships/modules/research.