Please take a look if this is a bug related to your mod:

As I try to illustrate in this pic, I lost quite important ship, the Prime minister starship, that is a unique ship, because I was attacked by pirate unexpectedly. However, the starbase that it was hiding in, had notable defenses, far more powerful than the pirates. But I still lost my unique ship! The sequence was: the ship was attacked, destroyed and then the pirates got destroyed by the starbase. But I wasnt supposed to lose my precious Prime minister, I had defenses! So there is a bug, sadly... But I am not smart enough to tell if your mod is to blame. All I know it affect/modify starbases too... 

Would you care to look into this?

https://forums.galciv3.com/488537/please-explain-the-bonus-mechanic-to-a-long-time-abstinent-from-galciv#3710705

Since GRM modifies galactic events, it may as well be affected by your mod. I am still uncertain if this event work properly: I mean as far as I can tell, I suffer only penalty but do not get the bonus

The Tothk replaced the Ronar race. As well as their Shipset which is not THK. You will find the Ronar ship designs still available, so you could easily use them to build a properly "Narn" set.

The Tothk ships are still very Narn like, but enjoy a bit of their own style to make them more fitting with the GRM universe.

How would I access the Ronar models? They don't show in the ship style drop-down when making a custom race.

Again an instance when I do not know who is to blame - Stardock or Gauntlet. It completely ruined my game session experience: I got ship so overpowered that it literally could conquer the whole galaxy without overexagerration. Take a look yourself and compare those stats with SMALL ship stats that were currently built as war fighters... I mean thats ridiculous. Here is how I got that monster: I simply recruited citizen as a Commander, assigned it to fleet. It gave OK bonus. It wasnt enough so I decided to upgrade my Commander to get a... Flagship. The ship I got was so powerful that, together with already bought mercenary it instantly wiped out my adversary and I became from one of the bottom to the very first, most powerful civilization. How boring. 

Popped into a save and made a Commonwealth, no crash.

So, how was it I use the Narn ships again?

Thanks, pity you dropped them as an official set, they looked really awesome in the Ronar video. Time to build a fleet!

I'm much more proud of the Tothk which took those designs and brought them to the next level. If you are not just trying to play-out a "authentic Narn" experience, I would definitely try those ships out. The Tothk set also comes with custom starbases.

@FreedomFighterEx

---YUP lol. I think the majority of players fundamentally disagree with Stardock's take on "Starbases". Rightly or wrongly, the fans want these to be Strongpoints that have to be broken through. However, GC is a wide-open space, so ... yah....

I have some ideas on Map design for a GC4... basically a map of Very Large hexes, representing interstellar distances (and moving from one to the isn't too slow ) but then some of these large Hexes contain many smaller hexes and represent systems, where travel is much slower. Basically, a way of creating strategic AND tactical (out-in system) movement, without converting to starlanes.

Then I could see Starbases being somewhat mobile and protecting systems more logically.

Thoughts? I think these mostly flow together.

Exactly. Allows Brad to still have his "open space" 4X... no lanes... but the geography changes.

I would in fact have three types of engines:

1) Hyperdrive (Allows strategic movement. Default time to get from one system to another might be 3 turns... various techs reduce this over time, and decrease the size of the component.)

2) In-system Drives (Allows more movement within the system, for rapid blitz assaults, one will want very powerful In-system Drives.)

3) Thrusters (These provide a little more movement In-system, but more importantly, provide a BIG advantage to the ship in Orbital Combats for planets. Smaller ships have a default Thruster rating, making them "Fight above their weight class" when in orbit, but otherwise pretty poor in open system space.)

In reference to the government system i have another idea:

What do you think about the possibility to have from the beginning the choice between a government which allows (for example) 12 colonies but has less bonuses or some penalty and a government with 5 but significant more bonuses to the other one? That would chance the whole system (if the whole system follow this idea) and would give much more strategic deepness i think.

And what about improvements of a government i already use? Is that possible?
(I really don't like the way to switch between democracy and dictatorship how i want without any consequences...)   

The balance is the key...

@ForesterSOF : Personally I'm just not up to modding combat balance or behaviors. It's a whole new batch of files to start monitoring for changes/updates.

@hawkeyebf1 : I think having a government with lots of colonies early on... is a bit of a cop out. People don't like it, but the low colony levels of the early game force us to slow down, and anything that slows down the "colony spam = I win" is a good thing in my opinion. More or less.

So I think a little more liberty (I've increased base colony level to 5) for some, like 6 or so, is great, but going so far as 12 is dangerous.

I also appreciate the posts... honestly, discussion here, or on Nexus, or wherever, is definitely a big motivator for me.