Yes, this is being adjusted in the forthcoming balance update.
OMG that's great news Yarlen... I ended up facing one with 2 fully upgraded TEC starbases pounding on it, my TEC Loyalist titan, every last cap ship I had and a whole fleet... and withdrew before the last half of my capitals and my titan were killed and STILL didn't take its shields down!
And yes, I had ALL my military and defense techs maxed!
Now, if I can get the game to stop resetting all my settings from the last start every time I quit... quite annoying resetting everything!
Oh hey, when are you guys going to get the forums to notify of a reply to a topic posted to?!? hard for me to remember what I posted to in order to check back!