Playing defensively?

[Desdinova]

i prefer playing defensively. populate as much as you can in your home system. create ships and leave them on your side of the warp points this way any incoming ship is in close range and you as the defender get to atk first. i build bases at the warp points also. then expand system by system. following that same pattern. this works against the ai but i dont think it would work as well against a human. i noticed the ai doesnt use the create wormhole devices so i have not had to keep fleets in systems i controlled.