Just some questions that are driving me nuts

Okay, well I've been playing since good old SEII and there are just some things that I can't find or get over.

- Where/how do you I get Shipyard Components? This was my favorite thing to do in all of the SE's I've played, and that's put starbases on every warp point as a protection barrier. Unfortunately I can't find a way to get the component so I can do this.

-- Also: If I have to tech five levels in ship yard to get the component, that's on my list to mod.

- This is just a general gripe for me.. I just don't like the new ship leveling system. You have to remember that I was used to playing the SEII shareware version where light cruisers were pretty much your workhorse for everything you did. As it's been said elsewhere, the transition between ship classes does not seem to be as dramatic as I remember it being.

- I've also had a few bugs loading the AI strat file, I don't know if this is an error across the board but I have had a few games I've played through where it gave me an error at the beginning and I keep forgetting to write it down as I approach playing again.

- I've also had a bug? Where I have colonized planets with my precise type, but it's still a domed colony. I have to say it's really annoying to be trying to colonize planets and be stuck with so little space. It happened all the time, and even happened to the AI and I ended up just waiting for the AI to conquer a planet and build it up so I could drop troops on it. Since the AI has no intelligence at all it just was a case of mopping up after it because it didn't build any troops on even the homeworld.

These AI errors could have been because of the loading error, but who knows.

- Another bug I've found is they actually had small ordinance/supply pods alongside the normal ones while I was building ships. I don't know why this would ever happen.. but it was pretty annoying to say the least.

In any case if someone can clear up the space yard component, that'd be the best.