3 Suggestions/issues

[Demonic Spoon]

Kusari is at war with Bretonia. Bretonia is allied with Liberty. Killing Kusari will help your Liberty rep.

Interesting.

The ways you make ships harder, is increased patrol difficulty levels when making the system. This will end up changing the AI's skill, loadout, and sometimes ship. Igiss already increased AI skills in general for all difficulty levels. Your way will simply unbalance it all.

Then do it THAT way (but focus more on offensive power). Really, I just want the AI to be more of a challenge, exactly how it gets done doesn't really bother me.

Answer the question already. Have you used Nuclear Mines?

No, I have not, but nuclear mines should not be the only mines capable of doing anything.