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Better Ship Sections

Adds more variety to existing ship classes to allow you to better specialize your designs for your technology, tactics, and strategies.

Destroyer:
+ 10 evasion (45 evasion base)
+ Gunship bow (3 sm)
+ Missile bow (1 torp + 2 sm)
+ Picket stern (2 pd)
+ Gunship stern (2 sm)
+ Missile stern (1 torp)
- Artillery bow - cruisers are now first ship class to get large mounts
+ Auxillary slot (2 total)

Cruiser:
+ Carrier bow (1 bay)
^ Missile bow (2 torp) [was. 1 torp + 2 sm]
^ Missile mid (1 torp + 2 pd) [was 1 torp + 2 sm]
+ Missile stern (1 torp)
+ Defensive stern (2 pd)
+ Auxillary slot (3 total)

Battleship:
+ Missile bow (3 torp + 2 pd)
+ Missile mid (4 torp + 2pd)
+ Missile stern (2 torp)
~ Carrier mid (2 bay + 4 pd) [was 2 bay + 2 pd + 2 sm]
+ Carrier stern (1 bay)
+ Defensive stern (4 pd)
+ Auxillary slot (4 total)

Titan
+ Dual XL bow (2 xlarge)
+ Carrier mid (4 bay)
+ Missile mid (8 torp)
+ Defensive stern (8 pd)
+ Auxillary slot (5 total)

Ai:
Will prefer defensive sterns if their pref isn't missiles nor strike craft (both of which already include PD)
so the AI makes much more balanced ships against enemies that are missile or strike heavy.

UI:
Improved the ship designer's consistently.

Compatibility:
This overwrites the vanilla files:
corvette.txt, destroyer.txt, cruiser.txt, battleship.txt, and titan.txt
Hence this is may conflict with any mod that also overwrites those files.

Note: this is not NSC compatible - and really has a very different goal.
Because this changes so little, and doesn't touch the 00_ship_sizes.txt file, this is compatible with all name lists and ship sets. It only requires the standard models and names - it just adds more flexibility to your ship design choices allowing you to have a true carrier or torpedo focus - and to have better point defenses on your ships to deal with those enemies who do go heavy missile and carrier. Also upgrades the Ai to take advantage of those options so that a missile based Ai will actually build ships that are missile heavy (and which have some PD built-in - which is a smarter design choice most times than what vanilla supplies).

Also: I'd enjoyed several other similar mods, but found that most mods that say added "true carriers" tended to then make the game too carrier-friendly and were in need of either nerfing their carrier designs, or offering other empires some options to counter carriers. So here, I chose to increase flexibility of ship design while also ensuring that the Ai and players have access to designs that can counter one another - and there is no 'always-wins' design choice - only situational winners.

Adaptation to 2.6 & russian translate by Petrovytsh (Thank You!!!)