Hey, my first post here on the forums. Is there an interest for Mods? My friend Sprouto and I along with several others have over the years been working on a Mod (the LOUD Project) so that we could play against a competitive AI on 40km maps. Sprouto has posted a few things about it here on the forums. We are considering releasing it but were not sure if there would be interest. It is unrelated to the FA mods and lobbies and is stand alone. It combines most of the common mods like Black Ops, Total Mayhem and 4DC etc... We have created an updater that allows people to switch between our mod and their saved config so people could bounce between ours (when they want to play the AI) and FA Lobbies when they want to play ranked or other modded games. Its a total conversion which is why it is standalone and would be difficult to integrate.
There is about eight of us who have been involved over the last several years who routinely play together on the weekends which is why we have spent so much time working on the game because we like to all play together.
I haven't seen too many mods on AI improvement so I dont know if that is even of interest anymore, but generally we are playing 40km maps 5 or 6v6 against the AI and can routinely get up to 5000 units and sim speed slowdowns at around the 2 or 21/2 hour mark. The benefit of improving the AI was that it lead to other changes that drastically improved sim speed so that we can play such large maps and have thousands of units. This also works for PVP and the performance is even better but we generally play team games against the AI.
Sorry for the long post, this was one of the first posts I read through and liked the discussion so it seemed appropriate to throw it out there here.