Temporal Space Yards

You could argue that the demolition and re-build is the cost of gaining access to a Space Yard that has much improved build rate.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Temporal races don't start with a Temporal Space Yard on their home world?!

Alternativly.
One could make them both the same facility and use a combined production rate which is say (Normal Spaceyard Rate)*((Temporal Tech Level+100)/100) so that all races use the same spaceyard, Temporal races just get faster production out of it.

Just an observation from someone who doesn't know about modding these things: It looks a lot like you're wanting to do the same thing the cultural techs do. Couldn't it just be implemented the same way they are, and give such-and-such bonus to all shipyards as soon as it's researched?

The only difference play balance would be the lack of a separate facility, and if the planet was cap'd, the new owners would miss out.

One thing I'd considered was to make the Temporal space yard an add-on (that boosts contrustion rate by a %) to the existing SY. Maybe give it a size of 0 to keep it from cluttering the planet.

You could make a seperate facility weight 0 that you can only have 1 of that provides a boost to the rate of the standard spaceyard maybe...call it the temporal field or something

*edit* oops, i should read the whole thing before replying

Ability 1 Type := Space Yard
Ability 1 Description := Can construct with [%Amount2%] minerals per turn.
Ability 1 Scope := Space Object
Ability 1 Range Formula := 0
Ability 1 Amount 1 Formula := 1
Ability 1 Amount 2 Formula := (3000 * (1 + (([%Level%] - 1) * 0.05))* (1*(Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Temporal Technology")*0.01))

This formula should give a %age increase over a normal building rate based on Temporal tech level, so lvl 50 Temporal Tech you would get 50% faster than the same level space yard without temporal tech.

Another Alternative way to do it in a similar way would be make Temporal Space Yards use Space Yard tech levels for build rates, but just require the Temporal Trait to build them, and make it so temporal races start with a temporal space yard, so that Temporal races never get the option of building a normal space yard.
*has idea's for a mod based off that, which should make AI much easier to code since it will have less tech area's to worry about*

There IS an advantage in Temporal Space Yards working as they are now, Taking "Bunglers" (-10% ShipYard Construction) racial trait hurts less: by scrapping your normal Space Yard you'll actually get a boost of construction speed.

You get the "drastically reduced rate" only because you took racial traits that boost ShipYard construction speed, like Hardy Industrialists. And those are already imbalanced IMO. No need to make them even more powerful by changing the way how Temporal Space Yard work.