Yor vs everyone else

I relly thought everyone would be excited to battle against or for the Yor

  I haven't played as Yor,  but the ship speed limit of 3 in their space makes them difficult for hit-and-run tactics or having fast transports snatch planets under attack by other races.  Good for escaping from fast enemy ships.

The Yor were one of the first races I won Suicidal sandbox games with in DA.  IIRC, I used military starbases so that all enemy ships had to approach my planets and bases at speed 1.

Just yesterday I played Yor on a tiny galaxy (2 major races: Thalan, Altarians):

  Their space doesn't limit their own ships' speed.

  They are difficult to subvert culturally (influence rebellions),  though the Yor-space speed limit is a good reason to keep foreign influence back.

  They start with the Barren World Colonization tech.  I believe they also have a massive range bonus (little use in a tiny galaxy).

Hi

Been a while since I posted but seeing as I play frequently as the Yor (I am playing one game with them right now) I can contribute to this thread.

The major differences you will notice playing as them are that they have a tech tree that is completely different in several branches they start with cybernetic history for instance.

they also have (I just loaded the game to check) inherent race ability loyalty 100 yes 100 (basically you cannot get their worlds to flip)So the colonization rush is much easier as they (or you)  don't have to worry about worlds flipping 

and an inherent ability + 10 Miniaturization (they can fit more stuff on their ships) makes them a little more dangerous. 

The limit of 3 speed for everyone that is not you basically makes invasions against you much easier to handle. 

they have an two other bonuses one to soldering and another to social production. 

This is a large set of bonuses that are further augmented by the fact that the Yor have access to better research buildings very early in their tech tree. 

They do however have one very serious weakness - their economy. 

When you start playing as the Yor your economy will be the limiting factor because The Yor don't have a econmy building that is not limited to one per planet yep they are limited to the efficiency center which gives a 25% boost and thats it so if you have 20 planets is quite possible to send your econ to hell in a handbasin very fast indeed. I learned that the hard way. You ether have to buy beg or borrow an econ tech from another race or perform some jiggerly pokerry to make it work.

One advantage they have though is that manufacturing building are much cheaper to maintain.

Strengths: Dependant slightly on how you customerise them but: 

Manufacturing bonus

Research bonus

Colonization bonus

Defensive bonus

Offset by

 A large economy penalty 

Now compare this to the Terrans

who have the following inherent abilities

Speed +1 diplomacy + 30 +1 trade and +6 logistics  and whatever else you set them up with.

The Terrans have the ability to make bigger fleets but the Yor can make better individual ships 

The Terrans have a much better economy and access to econ techs fairly quickly as I recall. 

Their + 30 diplomatic bonus + super ability gives them the abilty to barter like crazy for techs (although ther research is nowhere near as good as the Yor with that ability it does not need to be, as they can manipulate other far more easier, and have access to tech that enhances this still further. 

Ive played both the Terrans and the Yor and the Yor win for me the Terrans have an easier start but the Yor on the rampage are virtually unstoppable 

I play On Tough and my opponents on Intelligent don't know how much difference that makes.