Re: If you could give one bit of advice to someone
Not entirely true Parasite Long wars benefit you if your winning because it helps you EXPAND (via conquering/glassing enemy planets) and keeps your enemy from expanding.
If on the other hand you are losing a long war (or are losing enough numbers/resources that another enemy will overwhelm you) then you need to switch to a defensive strategy that employs lots of mines and warp point choke hold defenses.
For example in my one game I had 3 larger AI empires attacking my empire (fortunately at that point only 2 warp points led to my empire) so I laid Gigantic minefields and placed my warfleets at each warp point as I waited to rebuild.
If I lost a system I would simply blockade the next, sure i lost 8 star systems in 5 years and about 80 ships (which was a HUGE chunk of my navy) but in the end i whittled them down with attrition until their invasion fleets basically just ran out of steam and had to repair.
While they did that I rebuilt and launched a MASSIVE assult against the Cue Cappa systems, and in 20 years I not only retook my space but expanded to twice my original size (and the one enemy was totally washed away in the counter assault).
It all depends on how you play a long war out.
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