[quote]I've played two games online and both games were won by someone massing just Illuminators. It's a trend that's turned me off to online play. The game ceases to involve any strategy when the key to winning is simply massing one type of ship faster than the next player.[/quote] RTS games in a nutshell.
What a great game, it models the thing that has brought down Empire after Empire: Imperial Over reach. Historically many empires have fallen because they have got to large, the cost of maintaining forward outposts overwhelms it and it is then torn apart by smaller hostile enemies at its periphery. Even today this holds true. Look at the USA, its government runs a huge multi trillion dollar deficit to finance its war machine. That is perhaps one thing the game should model, the
