[bearclaw]

Single player game. I started in the bottom corner with 3 wps out of the system. 2 were unstable that lead to black holes while the 3rd led to a system that only had 2 tiny planets I could colonize. After finally managing to get past one black hole (about 12 attempts later), What was I to find? Another Black Hole!!! By the time I got 3 systems away from my homeworld (yes, only 3), I was using heavily armored destroyers (needed to heavy research armor to get through the unstable wps and repair to get through the black holes), my first encounter with an AI was with a Krill battle Cruiser.

yeah....

Now that I think about it, that became one of the most challenging games, and a whole lot of fun once I got to that point....