I've only played two games that I recall where my navy exceeded 100 ships. One of those was a solo game that I ended at turn 170, when was in second behind the Xi-Chung, who had declared war immediately after first contact at turn 35.
Playing against humans needs drastically more and bigger ships. There's nothing like seeing, for the first time, a fleet of over a dozen ships of a class two sizes larger than you've ever researched.
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Cap'n Q
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 16 August 2001).]