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Focus fire still has its use, in almost every battle. If they have repair ships, you can basically make them very inefficient by focus firing on their LRFs or attack frigs, then taking out assault cruisers. They're left with Caps and support ships who have no choice but to retreat or die, and take their awful fighters/bombers with them. Or you may want to knock out some of the more powerful support cruisers first, so their specials stop screwing you up (think AOE shield, pushback). T

To follow up my original post: You really can't compare this game to Chess and Go. In those games, you can execute your strategy as soon as it is your turn and always have to re-examine what you were planning to do at the start of your turn. There is no rule that says, "now it is your turn, but you must wait 500 more milliseconds and 200 more quasiseconds until you are able to do what you were planning on doing." There is too much dead time in SOSE right now. Not time for you to thi

The speed is too slow. I'm a complete noob who has only played about 6 games, all vs comp, all as vasari, all small maps, only the first game on normal speed. I guess if I max out research speed and resources it would be okay for now, but that's really the problem: what happens in a month when everybody has memorized the hotkeys, knows all the research possibilities, has found 10 good strats that give them lots of options and maybe 3 good strats that become standard "cheese" for their