Took me A minute to get what you were asking.  I think you are asking about the yor factory upgrade bug fix & ideology lock hackishfix that sidesteps it?  Those are the only two outright "fixes", everything else has been experimental tweaking of things like research speed & such so not "fixes" perse. Changing starspread from 0 to 2-3ish(higher=even closer)is a preference thing(I like 2:) where people can find their own happy points. I'm not  positive what exactly you are asking though?

I played the Yor a bit and right now I feel the high granularity of their population growth breaks the experience.  You only need 1 hammer to grow 0.2 pop a turn constantly. That is a pretty good investment return. By contrast, to get to +0.4 pop a turn you need to pump up quite a bit of factory output.  As a result I never want tu put more than 1 hammer on pop growth.

I feel that if the hammer/growth ratio was more linear I would feel much more inclind to play them.

Interesting, I did not know that  was the break even point & just went with either 100% or 50/50 manufacturing/research

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I had not thought to actually see where it fell, but in all honesty, like Jorrrrrn also saw, yor that last till turn 120-200ish in me experience suddenly slide from "not too far from the biological linear for various reasons" to freaking logarithmic/exponential in all things, but I've seen pop growth projects under non-synthetic life race tech trees so it might just be a case of never being forced to rely on it *shrug*.  If making the 0.2 go higher were easy it would take away the micromanaging potential handicap & make things too easy 

I've done a number of games as yor & it generally seems that around turn 100-150ish (depending on turn <100 distractions) that yor find their stride... and oh god is it a stride when bolstered by tourism.  Granted, there isn't much non-synthetics can do to match it in some ways, but I think that yor (or a yor-like minor race) have the potential to keep long games in very large galaxies away from that "I know how this will end" stagnation.  

One of the things that strikes me most is just how hard (as far as I can tell)it is to stab tourism income.  Every other income source has some diplomatic method of attacking it to varying degrees while tourism's foil is attacking planets to kill.  For reasons already stated, I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing & presume (I freaking hope!)espionage will gave some planetary pop stabbies in its quiver.

I think one of the most interesting factors in the makeup of the yor's quiver is the fact that they are superficially so badly suited for a diplomatic/influence victory race & just average(?) for military going by the bonus's alone that you pretty much get forced to use very heavy amounts of it all and can't really aim towards any one of them for the first 100+ turns .

On the plus side, I suspect that much of anything done to affect that turn 100-200+ rocketship might make the first 50-100 turns an almost uncrossable rubicon.  with the limited AI right now, that might change later.

I'll start another thread later on this

I like the yor quite a lot, but I feel there's something missing. I'm assuming it just wasn't put in yet, but shouldn't they have some unique relationship with dead worlds? Now obviously extreme world colonization hasn't been added in, but I find the limitations of what buildings they have access to, and the lack of late tier terraforming to be a severe downer for me. Overall, I like them, but not being able to full utilize a planet and the limitations of their pop cap per planet makes them somewhat less appealing. If they had some exclusive ability to utilize dead worlds in a way that the other factions couldn't, that would be very interesting, but atm, against races with population limits far exceeding Yor capacities and growth rates, the United Planets aspect becomes very difficult to control. Granted that is one thing that has also yet to be added in, opting out of the UP, which tends to favor other races anyway.

Overall though, not many complaints. Beyond what I've stated, I found the existence of approval ratings for them to be somewhat odd. What need do the yor have for entertainment, and goods & services? They exist with purpose do they not? Working towards the aim of genocide is the very fulfillment of their existence and yet they suffer approval issues as the population grows and require the above mentioned to stabilize it. I would think they'd be beyond such things but maybe im just over thinking it and its just a piece thats intended to be put in, that just isn't in at this time. However to me it is absurd, almost as absurd as tourism being a stat that the Yor can build up just like any other faction. (Although I could hardly see the advertising campaign for touring the Yor controlled worlds being successful considering you'd likely be killed or hunted relentlessly before ever setting foot on a planet) With that in mind, more needs to be done to set the Yor apart. They're advantageous with their relations with others, and only so long as it serves their purposes, but thats the same as saying I'll kill you later when its convenient. Although Im curious to see if tourism is only a factor UP members can exploit.

From the databanks:

So they had individual intelligence in CG2 and are currently in the process of integrating themselves into a collective intelligence.