Oh, this is fun!

[dbt1949]

To keep my costs down I usually have swarms of DDs and CLs even in the end game.Then I play tactical battles if I'm not overwhelming.
The AI seems to like to ignore the smaller ships and makes a beeline for the larger ones.
By the end game there's so many point defense weapons out there that fighter and missles don't have much of a chance. Of course I haven't used the big heavy fighters yet.....hmmm,maybe I should try those.
I made my first sphereworld yesterday.Wow.200 facilities.Something like 72 billion population. I've been transfering people to it like crazy.Have it over half filled now.
Of course now I'm having to rebuild my battle fleet after that fiasco with the heavily defended planet.Fortunately there's no warp points out of my empire so the AI can't attack.
In order to increase my other racial stats my physical strength is only 50% so ground combat is out.