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[quote who="CenturionJixra" reply="2" id="1883488"] You research the upgrades when the upgrade does more to enhance your fleet than adding more ships for the same cost.[/quote] Your statement makes sense only if you expect the game to end immediately thereafter and you do not build more units. When you research, you are sacrificing a bit of effectiveness in the short term for a bit more effectiveness in the long term. It's kind of like building

[quote who="Cataclysm2000" reply="5" id="1886961"]Does it work if you send in a lone Akkan and use Armistace on his forces, then send in a fleet to destroy them or does it wear off if they take damage?[/quote]didn't work for me. Even my ships out of range are affected

With a fleet of about 200 it takes forever to align. Why can't the ships just stay further apart and go deeper in stacks when phasing? I see the AI stack 20 units high when phasing sometimes, yet player ships only stack 4-6 high.

Is there any reason not to dismantal all research stations after you've completed all research? And just make a ton of tradeports and broadcast towers?

Is there any reason not to dismantal all research stations after you've completed all research? And just make a ton of tradeports and broadcast towers?

The broken part about allies is that they can turn on you at any time. What's the point of getting to 100% when they can just randomly attack you and drop it to 0% at any time. It seems all futile.

[quote who="Ovangkol" reply="4" id="1890711"] As soon as I get over 50% favorable rating I enter a cease fire and go from there. On a 4 team map, one ally seems to be plenty.[/quote] I just tried that on the latest attempt with no success as well. I got it to 90% and we had share vision/trade/peace treaties. When I gained a big strength advantage (while the other comps were still alive) that ally cancelled the treaty and after a minute started to attack me. I went from 90% to 0%

I'm playing on normal in a 4player map, and all 3 gang up on me. I've got almost all of my logistic slots on my bottleneck colonies pumping out frigates and cap ships non stop, and pretty much sit at the population cap, and still can only just barely hang on. 10 frig factories and and a capital ship factory pumping out all the frigates non stop, supported by dozens of guns and a handful of hangers. The computer never fights each other and seem to be able to send an endless stream of ships my