We are happy to announce CGM: Buildings has been updated with our new *AI Routines* and *Building Construction Automation* for players.

The way the Stellaris AI – and Sector AI – is set up makes it unable to determine optimal building construction. Such mods as Glavius’ AI megamod and our own 1.9 AI enhancement mods are able to fix this to some degree by tweaking the AI weights and AI allow fields on buildings, as well as editing other elements such as the defines file. Nonetheless, these solutions are fundamentally limited. First because various things are very difficult or even impossible to do this way, for example you cannot really optimize for adjacency bonuses, or create deep inter-mod synergies without complex compatibility patches. Another key problem is the fact that the Stellaris AI is limited to budgeting a single building per sector (including core sector) at any given moment and it doesn’t build in parallel usually. Finally, the way the Stellaris AI checks for building construction – repeating multiple times a month for every tile on a planet, causes huge late game lag issues.

#CGM AI Routines and Construction Automation#

The new update unlocks three different settings, which the player can choose using our mod’s menu:

• Full AI Routines - this setting disables the vanilla AI completely. Instead, the mod’s engine takes care of construction for the AI. The engine gathers data regarding a country’s current needs, and checks and records the potential of every planet, pop and tile. It then builds as necessary and optimally for the AI.
  
• Mixed AI Routines - this setting includes our mod’s engine alongside the vanilla AI routines. Both function simultaneously.
  
• Vanilla AI routines - this setting turns off the mod’s AI engine and includes only the vanilla building engine, with robust AI weights and ai allow tweaks.

The new functionality also extended to players:

1. The mod allows you to turn on automation for your planets- you can choose to turn it on for sectors only or all your planets (in the latter, core worlds have absolute priority).
   
2. You can turn the Vanilla sector building construction AI on-off. Upgrades will work either way - this is a unique mod function (please note- this will not apply to buildings from other mods, only CGM/Vanilla buildings at this time).
   
3. You can change the automated building budget at any time and as you see fit.
   
4. You can choose specializations per planet or empire-wide - as you see fit. For example, you can designate a planet to specialize in society research, and you can choose how strong this specialization should be. You can have it so the script will build society research buildings on almost every tile, or to have it respect tile potentials.
   
5. If core world automation is active and no new buildings are required, the resources in the budget will be used for automated upgrading within core worlds.