All right, I tried that and it still doesn't work. I went so far as to make the "useless" ability the ONLY miscellaneous ability, no "Must Have" component, and no "Majority Comp"; the AI creates a design with the right name, but REFUSES to put a @!#$^%!#$^& space yard on the design. I even tried a variety of "useless" abilities, just in case. I then tried increasing the VALUE of the abilities, in case it was looking for some kind of threshold value. Still nothing. I guess I'll just have to make my temporal space yard component the same size as the regular one, or else the temporal AI's won't design/build base space yards until after turn 41 (or they'll cripple their economy trying to build HUGE base space yards). This is terribly upsetting, that I can't make the modders' favorite trick work on my own mod. I actually used to believe I was intelligent, too...
I'll see if I can upload the appropriate files so y'all can take a look and tell me what picky little detail I missed.
Edit: just adding link to a zipped Version of the appropriate files (a Components.txt and a Sallega DesignCreation file):
TsaarxFailedMod.zip
[ 26 April 2002: Message edited by: DirectorTsaarx ]