Hi

Great game, lots of fun and things to do. Massive map, would be nice if this and number of races could be changed, as huge map is hard to micromanage. Unless you want to spend the time.

So anyways got to turn 700+ and about tech 10-12, cartarie with some good stuff.

So anway i was wiping out the klingons and i had a stack of about 10 dreadnaughts (mostly the ones from the race who gives you a dread with about 30k in damage (mostly in torps), about 9600 hull when built with iridium. Any who, cracking open planets by bombardment is very hard, I often lost multiple dreds and had to repair them. Planets maxed out on defence seem very hard to beat, if i used smaller ships they would be wiped out in 1 turn. I noticed it became easyer to crack a planet if i used the flagship option (when i leant how to turn it on), my ships took less damage, i used a cartarie drednaught to flagship as it has 10k shields and nearly 20k hull. Even so it took all my econimic might to crack 1 planet. Given that theres lots of planets this takes an extreamly long time to conquer a race. I dont know if this is a good or bad thing, probly make it impossible as if i was at war with other races then I could not fight them off and use all my ships to crack a planet.

I am not quite shure how to ground attack, i noticed transporters can do this but they are immediatly destooyed also and carry only 2 sets of troops, how about special attack craft for dropping off more troops or is this unbalanced?

I noticed the heyoun (who i never play, as i dont like the look of their ships) have lots of frigates which are and other ships which do masses of damage and have large shields and are cheap, they often have fleets off over 100 running around the system, i have seen them be wiped out by 1 planet, over a few turns. I think they are overpowered.

I think the carteree is quite well balanced race, and powerfull in the late game.

Klingons are also balanced and well powered, though some of their ships are to simmilar to be differentiated.

It is very slow to take territory, even if i take a planet, i need to take the next one or starbase to free it up of the territory colour. Though if i wait a few turns i think it may turn neutral? cant remember now. Taking territory is a bit slow and frustrating sometimes.

An english manual would be great.

I have no idea what the benefits of cloaking are.

All races seem to expand on the map at a massive rate, i can never compete in this respect. Also they seem to start off with better planets and i was wondering if they impove the stats of planets they claim.


AI races seem to be able to roam much further than me or is that my imagination also>?

Overall really great game, does take a long time to play though. I have very few crashes and couldent attribute them to anything.