Hello IC and SC. I love your game it is the first time that I'm so much takenn by a single game since Masters of Orion 2 and Imperium Galactica 2. However after playing games since day 1 I've found that Heavy Frigates (the ones used to bomb the planet) are way to cheap technique to ninja a planet. An AI is using this exploit and I was forced into this exploit against the AI.

The worst part of this is that there is not even a proper defense against this kind of attack. Those frigates are just too hard to kill but they kill pretty fast the planet when you have 10+ of them.

So my suggestion is to either lower their strenght or hitpoints or if not give more power to the planetary defenses. TEC has Gauss guns, Advent, Plasma beans, and aliens have missile launchers. Even when fully upgraded we need to have at least 10 of each to bring down those frigates. In early games this isn't possible to do and freshly colonized planets are ripped apart causing the massive loss of ressources and money.

Thank you.


P.S.

Contrary to other I'm not annoyed at all by pirates. It is a spice that this game needs. Without them it would have been just another game.