In terms of the manufacturing levels, the way that I tuned it this time was to have around 200-300 total bots at the end of the game, down from what was often 1000 or a bit more previously. How many are folks looking for?
The reason that I made the change in particular is that what with the shift to fewer number of bots (about 1/3 as many) in recent versions, that made for a huge increase in end-game difficulty since the numbers of spawned bots for the final missions had not gone down.
Generally speaking I was winding up, in testing, having to play through the final battle about 8-12 times (!?!?!) in order to win the game. That was way too much. Now if you don't do any lion's den missions, etc, you'll have to play through the final battle maybe 3, maybe 4 times. That still seems a tad on the excessive side, but I'm open to suggestions for sure.
