Wat?

Well, by making a race use fewer fleet supply and have them cost less and then set the AI to that, but I don't know of anything else...

the templates are hard coded, but by modifying the conditions, you could change things...  Theoretically, by adding a new set of races called CPsi, CTech, CPhase that would have lessened costs on what you want and increased on what you don't...

The Ai is smart in that they know almost every Cap. ship they send out to confront the player will be instantly destroyed via focus-fire.  But, I have seen cases of Ai vs. Ai combat, in which one fleet had all 16 Caps., the other had 10.

I guess it really depends on the map size, and how the Ai sees the enemies fleet.

Koda0 (^)

yeah, the mod I was making increased the effectiveness of cap ships, but since the AI only builds a few cap ships at the start of the game, the opposite problem occcurs, my 5 Caps will domolish it's fleets.

No need to fret though, I've encountered far more difficulties making changes to the overall gameplay that have basically made it unplayable.

ie. ships will suddenly stop firing in the middle of a battle and will not attack each other unless specfically told to attack each target.  I had three enemies all in one gravity well sipping tea together while commenting on the quality of crumpets...