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Kaltes
I have had this happen to. But i never thought that it could be a glich or any thing i just thought he was just being attacked.
I play as the vasari, what i do is build cap maker and build the battle ship and then max out my ship points with std frig. I dont need to explore i planet hop and i dont rebiuld my frigets because im gathering reasources for my calonization cap ship. The Only reasure i do in the start is the ice and or valcanic colonization, depending on if i need it. and the extended range sensors. For weapons i try to only buy stuff that upgrades the majoraty of my fource, and thigs that increase my cap shi
unless you plan to play a match several hours weapon upgrades are not that important, since there realy expesive, take time and dont give lots of reward any time soon.
Sounds like u guys have got this down to a science. Personaly i build a cap ship and near max out reg frigits to clear out planets one at a time. The only thing i research is ice and valcanic callonization. at least untill i build my sec cap ship wich i do realy fast so i dont need very many reg ships because by this time my battle ship is at level 4. But dont do this onlione tho cus people spam and a cap ship and a hand full of frigs can only do so much. But it does work against hard and unfa