[Q]

I agree with you PvK.
IMHO fighters and sats keep their use even in late games. The key point as you said is "large numbers". 50 fighters are completely useless against a fleet of 20 or 30 ships but if you have 1000 large fighters with shields in Groups of 30 or even 50 you have a tremendous firepower and won't loose too many fighters.
Sats are great as quick defense for warp points when you expand. Just move the sats with your sat layers to the new front line.
Minesweeping is however IMHO too cheap. There has been a topic about that some months ago and I increased the cost of the minesweeping components dramatically in my mod. And to make larger mines interesting I reduced the effect and the cloaking level of the smaller mines.

[ December 21, 2002, 05:49: Message edited by: Q ]