Oh, well in that respect this game is not peculier at all. It's quite common for games to have a few skirmishes while teh players build up big forces for the major battle. Once that starts the game usually ends fairly quickly thereafter. ALthough, your failed assault of my colony a while back was fairly large as skirmishes go.
I would have "visited" you a while ago, right after you lost those ships in fact. But you had mines on that warp point. Mines do an effective job of slowing the game down for a time.
Yes, score is more for entertainment then anything else.
I suspect we are quite close as we seem to be switching back and forth between 1st and 2nd place.
[ September 23, 2003, 16:53: Message edited by: geoschmo ]