About space yards and space yard components

a spaceyard just enables you to add ships on a planets construction queue. it also iirc correctly replaces the planets build speed, so if you moded a spaceyard to build at 1 minerals, 1 organics and 1 rads, anything you attempted to build at that planet after the spaceyard was built would take a loong time. however space yards normally have a higher build rate than what the base planet build rate is.

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an se5a is a ww1 fighter, it is also a car.

All Ship Yards build things separately. Facilities are built by planets, not ShipYards (still you cannot build a ship or unit at the same time), but if you have one on the planet, the facility build rate depends on that ShipYard build rate.

1. Yes.

2. Right, they will not do so. All SYs are separate queues.

3. You can only have one SY component on a ship, and only one SY facility on a planet. If it was possible to get two on the same ship/planet, the rates would stack for that object's build queue.

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Why don't we have 3? Is it hardcoded?

Yes.

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Erm so you can't simply duplicate a tech item to make the game not notice?

Duplicate a tech item?

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I think marhawkman is referring to the trick used in Se 4, to make a facility upgrade in to a ship yard. Bypassing the hard code limit.

You don't need a trick.

You can mod a facility "Manucaturing Plant" with the ability "Space Yard Rate Modifier" and give it 200%. So the actual rate is trippled. You can even stack the ability if you mod several different facility with this ability. Only problem you need to use "Sector - This player" as scope. So all the bases at this location get the same constraction rate boost.

It also destroyes the balancing. It would be hard to teach the AI how to handle such a facility and place construction shipyards at this loactions.