Certainly will.ORIGINAL: lurchi
About the AI, I sure do think about this. I'll bring more diversity into Universe, but the research paths stay quite simple, actually. Also we now can take the AI by the hand using the Research Order system. I hope Icemania will help with that, he's quite involved with that matter.
Please be careful with weapons that require massive investments of research in other chains. I'm not necessarily against that, but to justify that extra cost, there needs to be a benefit. A good example in Vanilla was Torpedo Bombers, where you also have to research Missiles and Missile Bombers to an extent i.e. in addition to Torpedoes and Torpedo Bombers! I've broken that link in the AI Improvement Mod.
Also please include Colonisation Rebalanced. I've included this in the AI Improvement Mod, with research costs balanced to become feasible. Feel free to use that.
Maybe extra and improved Wonders as well. Extended has a lot of extra races and there aren't enough Wonders to go around.