To install this mod, just unzip & drop it in Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\mods\  It's likely compatible with most mods except for IAB as they modify many of the same files

designed for insane, loose clusters, common star freq & occasional or common planet, habitable, planet, set extreme to whatever you like, I g with common.  set the tech speed to normal, the tech costs are adjusted in the tech trees directly  & my personal preference for tech trreading is trade off broker disabled  (i.e. only trade stuff you researched personally)

Tech speed is too blunt with normal/slow making later game too easy and very slow crippling the game for the first 75-150ish turns depending on race on larger maps effectively putting it's use in the same general usefulness as a hammer to fix the screw holding the arm on your eyeglasses.  
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- V0.1 ******************
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this was a work in progress

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- V0.2 ******************
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Tech research costs modified as follows (generally rounded up to nearest int) a based on age the tech falls in

 *AgeOfExpansion 1.25x
 *AgeOfWar 1.75x 
 *AgeOfAscension 3x
 *AgeOfVictory 10x (Lets face it, the original values were designed for playability on  maps like tiny & small.  Since the -other- victory paths are made much more difficult on larger maps, tech victory does here too now).  considering there are only 3 AoV techs, this is pretty minor.   I still recommend disabling tech victory because those values were pretty low to begin with.
* finished age of victory in the tech trees
*  You now get 20 instead of 4 free starbases
* the additional cost per starbase beyond the free 20 is now 8 credits each as a # pulled from thin air as a starting point.
* StarbaseRange bumped from 5 to 8.  their aura's range was so small it made certain types of starbases of dubious value
*  starbases now need to be now closer than 10 hexes apart (up from 5), again a plucked from thin air starting point 
* minimum colonizable planet quality is PQ4 (down from 6), this helps build range bridges early on &  works well with synthetic races.
* added a +25% multiplier modufier for life support range to cargo hullsso trade is more usable early on before mid/late in the tech tree
* bumped max range colonies can supply Shipyards (MaxSponsorDistanceWithNoPenalty)  by 50%...  Up from 6 to 9... Again a starting point pulled from thin air.

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- V0.3 Preview ********** 
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* This will cintinue tweaking things as above as a starting point
* if there appears to be interest from other modders, I'm trongly considering breaking the default 4 tech agesto split the first three into two or three parts each allowing more diversified ai strategies.  Not h aving done much with ai tweaking though, I'm uncertain pending feedback.