Because of the not so intelligent ship AI, most of us use hold position, and micro like hell to better control our ships. This is being addressed as i type so hopefully we wont have to resort to doing this all the time in the final release.

It isn't that you get more fire rate or anything like that because the fighters have a long enough cooldown on their weapons to swing around for the next shot.

It is just that I like to manually micro everything during battle. Basically, the tactical AI isn't all that impressive for me.

Also, I wanted to say congrats on your holding off for so long against far heavier firepower. I like how you decided to preserve your fleet instead of trying to do a hopeless defense. I get that you were hoping our alliance would fall apart and you would be able to stage a come back.

Anyway, I was impressed with your resiliance and good grasp of the bigger strategic view.

The minidump ( WWW Link) is from watching the recorded game. In the actual game Sins didn't crash for me, but the game stopped possibly because *someone* got the culture string missing pop-up/pop-under (:/) and didn't notice it.

And damn, so far I thought Sins would upload the minidumps by itself after you get the popup asking about sending it to the devs. Now I have a few more dumps from the last week, but I can't remember the circumstances under which the game crashed for them. Would it still help to upload or e-mail them without a bug report ?

@paradoxnt + Major Stress: It's just a feeling that the fighters are more effective when on hold position, atleast against other fighters and bombers. Can't really test it with just 1 computer. But seeing those fighters sit there statically just looked wrong.

Oh and thanks Have to say it was a bit hopeless fighting 1vs2 + the third guy and the pirates too. I was a bit surprised that the terran planet didn't flip after my culture had already spread through it and your own broadcast centers were not up yet.