[aegisx]

Early attacks are difficult to pull off. All he has to do is build a few WP's on a planet (1 turn) and it can defend pretty well against early ships. Also, If he already has a 2- 3 times colony advantage, the loss of a planet or 2 is insignificant as he can out-produce you.


As it should be, the empire with the most planets will tend to win the game. There are exceptions of course. Your changes should slow it some though.

How about this... Production level on planets are partly based on population right? Maybe this formula needs to be changed. Right now a newly colonized planet (10M people) can produce 2k I believe. This seems a bit high of a start, perhaps it should be more like 500. If a planet has 1000M, I could see it being closer to 2000.