I'm very new to the game, so please have some mercy. There is a good chance I am totally missing something, hence why I am making this post.

Against the AI, I love this game for the first half of the game. I like the strategy in expanding. I like figuring out how to be more efficient. I like the fact I can have multiple fights going on without paying attention to them too much. I haven't played many games yet (3!! heh), but I am really enjoying the first half of my Sins games.

However, the last half really seems to suck. So I finally have decided its time for the big battle of battles. Its time to crush their fleet and remove them from the galaxy. This seems to take FOREVER. I warp in to their nearest colony and start bombing their world. Woot, here comes their fleet. After I pound them for a bit.. they usually flee and keep doing so until I hit their homeworld. However, the whole process of slowly killing their colonies and mopping up their fleet seems to take forever. The thing that was so fun at the start (fights being slow) really starts to drag on when the enemy has essentially lost. I think it took me over an hour last night to completely mop them up on the smallest setting. I can't imagine playing a large or huge galaxy.. it seems like you could spend days slowly slogging your way through their worlds.

Am I missing something? I do have some siege type ships to speed it up. But it just feels really slow. In games like Gal Civ you could hit a bazillion worlds at once but in Sins it seems hard to do so because most planets only link to 2-3 other places. So you slowly creep through their empire killing stuff until it finally ends.

Any advice for speeding this up? Am I missing something? Am I the only one that feels the slowness of the game is great at the beginning but a major detractor towards the end? Anyways, thought I'd throw this out there in case I am totally not understanding something. Heck there is tons I don't understand yet, but the process of finishing the mopping up part of the game rapidly is the only one that actually frustrates me.