Well pardon my lack of grammar/spelling skills since it 1am here.

As i played this game since Beta 2, i already finished 2vs2vs2vs2 in huge random as TEC then decide to go for more challenge, playign advent (because i love the size of hangers givign 3 squadron with 7 fighter/bombers each making it 2 hanger normally as one) so I went for 1vs3vs3vs3 in huge random, me vs the world!

Now I do mostly grab economy alogn with mothership to attack and colony planets early on with building up hangers along with research, with colony side grabbing non-colony mines system. It work mostly for 4 hr as i defeat 3 AI side in my star, i began to finish off 4th empire in my home star.

Now here the problem, As i began to wage war to capture and hunt their planets/fleets down with 2 fleet, logistics half way thru with first fleet = grand fleet with 3 capital, lvl 10 mothership, carrier and BS along with handful of original fleet frigs/cruisers with replacement. Second Fleet is largest of two, with 7 capitals, 1 each with exception of 3 carriers(love fighters supports).

So while i engage and control choke point (make it more predictable and controlable for me to keep enemy fleet from ransacking my planets with full out fleet), major situation occur in my chokepoint belt (less tactical slot so less defenses) so I left my grand fleet station there engaging and destorying their capitals, managed to defeat 7 capitals while outnumber 2:1 and they ran after. It became very contested belt, it switch hands 7 times with me keeping recolonise while i move grand fleet about with mobile defenses etc. The enemy decide to threw in full force of ENTIRE EMPIRE into that belt, guess one thign i noticed apart from huge lag and numbers AI got? he had 67 light carriers cruiser......that 67 squadron alone (TEC race)

Now It becoming so much of struggle, i sudden realise the wormhole that in my backyard are NOT connected within the star as in my first game but connected to enemy stars far away, meaning they keep throwing numbers into my backyard with huge capitals fleet, that i need to research full out in fleet logistic to produce third fleet with huge numbers of what left, to focus on offense while 2 fleet are on defense.

So my dilemma is, Hold out much as i can to make third fleet to finish off and control fully my home star or just meh and start again?