Real Ships mod for Stellaris

Update

This mod is now live on steam: Steamcommunity.com

Renamed to A Better Weapons and Ships mod (ABWS) due to potential naming clash with another mod.

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The aim of this mod is to fix the bland ship/weapon sizing where size of ship/weapon/component does not make a difference and scales pretty linearly. Bigger is a lot better now, but is not always the best choice. Weapons are now specialised properly and are all viable throughout the game. Weapons and components receive a fair boost for each tech level and a smaller high-tech fleet should work pretty well against a bigger low-tech fleet. Even monster weapons are now fairly viable, so don't expect to roll over the natives either.

Taking on spaceports is now pretty difficult making an early game no/low tech corvette rush pretty difficult with even cruisers getting potentially one shotted, so taking down spaceports are no longer without significant losses (probably). Mining/research stations, Science ships are moddable and reflects their costs, giving you greater flexibility to arm or not arm them.

Always looking for advice/feedback for the mod.

PS: The joy of finishing the mod for v1.1 and seeing v1.2 come out a few hrs later...
PPS: And the joy of updating for v1.2 and patch v1.2.1 coming out a day later...

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Ships:
Larger ships gets a non-linear boost to ehp and slots. Some different costs for different ship modules. Cruisers gets an aura and Battleships gets a second one, empty aura slot gives bonus power. Auras gives more types of effects. Corvette spam effectiveness should be greatly reduced in favor of a mix of ships classes. Now with weaponized science and colony ships! (Colony ships partially broken)

Stations:
Spaceports are pretty scary now, I think I overdid it. Mil stations now are also stronger and with better auras. Minefields are potentially very scary now and can do significant damage if your ships stay in there long enough. Civvy stations can be armed well enough to take out the odd corvette or two but it would cost a lot more.

Weapons:
Much more variation in effects, damage, range, ROF, etc. Should be a lot more balanced with no single type of weapon owning in the game with unique specialities. Larger slots get additional bonuses as compared to smaller slots. Fighters/bombers are now very interesting and should be viable. PD is nerfed/buffed and flak is actually useful now.

Components:
Larger components get better/extra effects. More effects added to different components. HP and shield regen in battle is now very viable and armour is boosted, so bring AP and AS weapons. Early shields is now pretty much a must (or not).

(NEW: 1.2.1a) Space combat:
Now ships chase each other around in a more dynamic battle over a larger area.

(NEW: 1.2.2a) Monster weapons:
Redid all monster weapons to be useful and each has their own unique uses. Still relevant in late game too!

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Overall: armour is boosted, shields are stronger and have much faster regeneration. Large slots gives additional bonuses and medium/large slots have better efficiency as they get bigger. Sensors gives better bonuses with higher tech level but power costs doubles each level. Ships speed up when entering combat and energy maint costs is decreased while mineral maint costs are increased. Larger ships gets a non-linear boost to hp and armour and some additional slots.

Lasers: high accuracy, medium-long range, medium rof, medium damage, slightly weak to shields, good vs armour. Best for taking out high evasion corvettes or high armour.

Plasma: decent accuracy, short ranged, medium rof, high damage, very weak to shields, highest armour pen. Will eat through an unshielded battleship at close range but once shields are involved the damage drops off rapidly.

Lances: good accuracy, long ranged, very low rof, high but random damage, low shield pen, high armour pen. Single hit can kill a basic corvette but it tends to overkill and have a very slow rof. Good long ranged firepower against capital ships but not ideal vs fast swarms.

Arc emitters: perfect accuracy, medium range, high rof, highly random damage, medium dps, high shield pen, low shield damage, good armour pen. Ideal for taking on corvettes or heavily shielded ships. Best after shield damage but is eclipsed by other weapons vs shield/armour.

Disruptors: good accuracy, medium ranged, low dps, extremely powerful vs shields. Pair with plasma for a good close ranged fleet.

Energy torpedoes: good accuracy, very long ranged, slow rof, good damage, high shield pen, negligible armour pen. Good long ranged weapon that ignores most shields but doesn't do too much damage.

Mass drivers: bad accuracy, medium ranged, good rof, good damage, decent shield damage. Cheaper in costs to lasers and missiles while slightly weaker than both. Good dps that benefits greatly from accuracy upgrades, increasing the dps tremendously. Good vs shielded ships with not much armour.

Kinetic artillery: bad accuracy, long ranged, very low rof, stupidly high damage, decent shield damage, low armour/shield pen. Slow firing long ranged weapon that can 1 hit a basic destroyer or almost kill a basic cruiser. Obviously bad vs corvettes and not too great vs heavily armored battleships.

Autocannons: bad accuracy, short ranged, high rof, good damage, decent shield damage. Shorter ranged version of the mass drivers with more dps. Max level gets a decent shield pen and increased shield damage. Lowered power costs as cannons shouldn't be needing much power to run. Good for making shield ships, and accuracy buffs boosts the dps tremendously.

Flack batteries: bad accuracy, medium ranged, very high rof, highly random damage, bad shield damage but good shield pen. Bad dps but meant for taking out fighters/bombers. Also comes in medium. Works a lot better with accuracy buffs/sensors.

Point defence: bad accuracy, very short range, increased rof. Pair with sensors for greatly increased anti-missile capabilities.

Missiles: medium-long range, fair rof, good damage, decent rof. Boosted the fire rate, damage and range. Main benefits are long range and very good damage (reduced by PD).

Torpedoes: long range, lower rof, high damage, ignores shields, some armour pen. Torps should fly faster (I think) and have one of he best dps but is countered by PD and tends to overkill.

Swarmer missiles: medium range, very high rof, low damage, bad vs shields/armour. Counters PD to a certain extent by launching tons of low damage missiles in rapid succession.