This is a pretty nasty racial combo...

[geoschmo]

I have heard of mods that add a temporal yard component, and other mods that make it possible to upgrade a SY3 to a Tempomral Yard without destroying it. In the stock game though you have abou tcovered it. No way around it. You could stay with SY 1 for your ship based yards, but they would be pretty slow.

[Baron Munchausen]

I've moved space yard components to the REPAIR field with repair bays. This saves you having to research space yards just to have the component. Next issue: Should automated repair bays and space yard require computers. Logically, I'd say yes, but it might create some serious problems for the AI to add more research requirements to a basic thing like space yard components...

[Suicide Junkie]

I would really like to see your .emp or general plan for that type of empire SJ.

Unfortunately, I don't have any declassified Versions that will work in public Versions of PBW at the moment.

The recipe:[*]Start with a 5000 point P&N game.[*]Take all racial tech areas, including grav manip and living ships.[*]If available, choose "Endemic Wastefulness" to help balance the books later. Micromanagement and heavy investment in supply infrastructure can typically overcome this disadvantage.[*]Take large to maximum negatives on Physical strength, repair rate, happiness, and anything else you feel you can do without.[*]Resource Aptitudes should be set to 80% to get the most points at the least cost.[*]If normal, be sure to increase maintenance reduction. If nomadic, take smaller negative values on other characteristics. In fact, if you're nomadic, you can probably afford to take a negative on maintenance reduction, which should net you a significant amount of points.