[TRY SFT PLEASE] Better Ship Behaviors [OUTDATED]

Please try my new mod, Spacefleet Tactica.

If you enjoyed my previous mod BSB, consider this its spiritual successor — completely rebuilt and evolved to bring actual tactics to the current 4.3+ Stellaris combat meta. This mod forces the AI to build tactically coherent, role-based fleets instead of randomized ship gore, making AI empires much smarter and more distinct in their naval doctrines.

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Better Ship Behaviors

BSB is a vanilla-flavor mod that improves the ship behaviors in Stellaris and solves some problems in space combat.

Please check the update log!

UPDATE 20250529

A new ship mod tailored for Stellaris 4.0, Special Ships: Shipbuilding Focus, is now released! It is fully compatible with Better Ship Behaviors and highly recommended to be used together!

Improved Ship Combat Computers and Behaviors

New Sniper Combat Computers. Instead of turning back and gaining distance, the ship stays at the maximum range of the mounted weapon, concentrate on firing its long-range guns at the enemy, with a very large bonus to weapon range.

Change the Carrier Combat Computers. With additional engagement range bonus, allowing carriers to attack with strikecraft while keeping their distance from the enemies. Instead, have a very large penalty to ship speed during combat.

Improvements in AI Empire Ship Designs

AI battleships are designed to be equipped with adequate combat computer, and to have the appropriate ship behavior. AI empire's weapon preference and tech level determine the battleship designs.

Starbase Design Standardization

New common A-slot parts to Starbases. Gives Starbases a base recovery rate to make them fight more effectively in combat, and fixes an unbalance in Starbase designs.

Compatibility Information

Fully compatible with Special Ships: Shipbuilding Focus, and using them together is highly recommended. Fully compatible with NSC, ESC NEXT, ASB, all shipset mods. Compatible with Real Space Ships in Scaling, when used with compatibility patch. All compatible mods except NSC and ESC NEXT must be placed above Better Ship Behaviors in the Paradox Launcher mod list. NSC, ESC NEXT, and their add-ons must be placed below Better Ship Behaviors.

Language Support

BSB supports all Stellaris official languages, powered by Google Translate. Italian translation patch by Rahl81. Grazie!

Please enjoy and give me good feedbacks!