There are a few perks here that are absolutely disastrous to performance, which is a shame because I love some of the perks - the auto-outpost building event on completing a survey is a QoL godsend. The Cortana perk and the perks that work by creating custom homeless factions in the galaxy (looking at you, Security Strike Forces) are prime examples of why this performance drop happens - the mod has a ton of auto-firing events and AI management where player decisions/edicts/policies should be, leading to huge background overhead.

It's a truly impressive scale and depth for a mod, but the real gems are buried under bloated messes. The best way to experience the mod is to remove some of the perks from its files so Cortana doesn't inundate your error log with megabytes of UI/localization errors, the auto-firing white hole generation event doesn't melt your computer by spamming new systems everywhere, the Security Strike Force doesn't turn into an indestructible galactic political juggernaut hellbent on destroying all pacifist galactic proposals, etc.

Originally posted by InkTide:

There are a few perks here that are absolutely disastrous to performance, which is a shame because I love some of the perks - the auto-outpost building event on completing a survey is a QoL godsend. The Cortana perk and the perks that work by creating custom homeless factions in the galaxy (looking at you, Security Strike Forces) are prime examples of why this performance drop happens - the mod has a ton of auto-firing events and AI management where player decisions/edicts/policies should be, leading to huge background overhead.

It's a truly impressive scale and depth for a mod, but the real gems are buried under bloated messes. The best way to experience the mod is to remove some of the perks from its files so Cortana doesn't inundate your error log with megabytes of UI/localization errors, the auto-firing white hole generation event doesn't melt your computer by spamming new systems everywhere, the Security Strike Force doesn't turn into an indestructible galactic political juggernaut hellbent on destroying all pacifist galactic proposals, etc.

I was going to attempt to do that but have no clue how to actually manipulate the files to prevent them from appearing.

Unfortunately to do it without breaking the mod/Stellaris you basically have to reverse engineer it yourself - or at the very least learn the basics of Clausewitz modding. I'm honestly not sure if it might just be easier to make a mod that just has the perks you want on your own. The big performance hogs are also giant messes in the mod code, if I remember the last time I went digging through the files correctly (Cortana in particular was a nightmare to remove completely), but it was admittedly years ago.

Can't you just forego choosing the acension perks?

Originally posted by JURASA:

Can't you just forego choosing the acension perks?

1. The AI offers no such courtesy,

2. Some of the background auto-events happen at game start, regardless of perk level, to set up the factions they use/abuse to function.

3. I don't usually install mods that ruin the save unless I avoid half of the content they contain.

Originally posted by InkTide:

There are a few perks here that are absolutely disastrous to performance, which is a shame because I love some of the perks - the auto-outpost building event on completing a survey is a QoL godsend. The Cortana perk and the perks that work by creating custom homeless factions in the galaxy (looking at you, Security Strike Forces) are prime examples of why this performance drop happens - the mod has a ton of auto-firing events and AI management where player decisions/edicts/policies should be, leading to huge background overhead.

It's a truly impressive scale and depth for a mod, but the real gems are buried under bloated messes. The best way to experience the mod is to remove some of the perks from its files so Cortana doesn't inundate your error log with megabytes of UI/localization errors, the auto-firing white hole generation event doesn't melt your computer by spamming new systems everywhere, the Security Strike Force doesn't turn into an indestructible galactic political juggernaut hellbent on destroying all pacifist galactic proposals, etc.

I agree completely with this. I have never seen anything fill up logs like Cortana does. I think it also caused one of my saves to brick via Stack Overflow whenever I try to load it.

Originally posted by InkTide:

Originally posted by JURASA:

Can't you just forego choosing the acension perks?

1. The AI offers no such courtesy,

2. Some of the background auto-events happen at game start, regardless of perk level, to set up the factions they use/abuse to function.

3. I don't usually install mods that ruin the save unless I avoid half of the content they contain.

Can manually setup those APs to be avoided by the AI. but the second one would be more complicated. I was looking to see if I added this mod, and I'd rather not include things that harm performance at the moment.

i would like to see this

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2550763959
I make something for myself.