[Baron Munchausen]

This is another case of the difference between a human and an AI making problems for game play. Only a human knows how to mass fighters cleverly, at least right now. I think the best idea so far is to limit the time they can spend away from a "dock" of some kind. Change them to be automatically destroyed if not recovered a certain number of strategic turns after launch and many of these problems are reduced. Especially the bit about building them and pushing them out into space until you've got 10 times the planet's/base's capactiy sitting there in the sector.