I struggle in small, managed to win once in medium, get my ass kicked in large. Examples Have world with 5 levels of social specialisation and 4 broadcast units in space. Has 3 spacelanes, 2 are mine, one goes to comet. Both my border worlds have max social and at least 3 broadcast units. Enemy culture creeps through comet system to my world and it turns. So, I try to take the comet system, but it is full of ships. I have class 10 Titan, 5 class
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First I obliterated the pirates world using Novalith canon. Apparently it is irrelevant to the pirates anyway as they continued as usual. I attacked pirate base with level 10 Tian and 10 x Level 10 Dreadnoughts plus a few frigates of each type and as many Percheron carriers as I could do with a big fleet. Battle lasted under a minute before my fleet was obliterated. After battle, there were: 488 x Corsaires 761 x Pirate Rog
Have you considered a native 64bit port of the game (alongside the 32bit version) so that those of us with 64bit OSes can take advantage of extra resources?
Every time I play I am attacked by wave after wave after wave of pirates. If I am lucky, I advance to the point that I can build a capital ship before they start, once I even managed to build 2. If I am lucky, I manage to beat the first wave before I am attacked again. It only delays the inevitable though. Never have I gotten past the 3rd wave before each fleet of pirates is joined by another while I am still fighting the previous. Generally I have one capital ship and