[God Emperor]

Magus38,
Thanks for the report. What you observed was something that tended to happen with my earlier Versions.
The problem was two fold;
1) If the races ended up in galaxies with lots of mining type colonies, there was the possibility that after building the requisite number of construction yards and military installations that they would end up building only a few Research Compounds.
I fixed this by putting a Research compound ahead of military installations and by deleting construction yards altogether (most planet types are allowed to build space yards anyway),
2) Given that the races were building lots of ships, their maintenance level was so high that the maintenance setting trigger was being activated, which forced them to build more mining colonies.
I fixed this by raising the maintenance trigger to 99% and reducing their ship to planet ratio a bit (in the latest patch I am play testing, I have dropped it down a little further).

Hope this helps any would be race modders out there!