Numpty >>
saturday august 27 - 17:59 That was, of course, somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
Regarding your question about YA4, I find it helps to work with the numbers before making that kind of decision. You mention losing $9 million per day, but that includes everything, so it's better to consider just the YA4 costs.
I calculate the total maintenance cost for YA4 to produce 5 players (4 normal ones plus a ST) as $340 million.
But you can't save the whole of that by downgrading because you still have to pay for the YA/YC costs at the future level.
[If you downgrade it to YA3 then you get 5 YA3 players instead, at a total cost of around $190 million.]
The YA4 ST should make most of that, so my guess is you could probably cover the $340 million and still make a decent profit by selling all 5 untrained players, but there's obviously a bit of a risk there.