Evidence That Your An Idiot Emperor If:

[Kevin Arisa]

78. You ignore the single enemy next to your home star.
79. You send your entire fleet after a lone enemy escort.
80. The single enemy escort wins.

[Alneyan]

Starhawk said:
52. You never build anything larger then an escort even when you have Super Monitors available because you just love the word Escort.

You would be surprised. Never mock the almighty Escort of Doom. Frigates might be preferred from time to time, but the point stands; these little ships can be deadly if you are caught unaware.

81: You somehow manage to research Resource Converters, and put them on Repeat orders. Several months later, you are still wondering about what happened to your collapsing economy (do not worry though; you aren't the only one, as this mistake is probably one of the most common).

82: You have set your neighbouring system(s) as "Systems to avoid", and ticked the "Ships should not travel through restricted systems" option. The same goes for minefiels.

83: You have confused the "Demand surrender" option and "Surrender", and/or the "I want to be subjugated!" and "I want to subjugate you!".

84: You have been researching Tachyon Sensors and Organic gathering (from level IV to IX). In a high-cost research game.

[AMF]

Alneyan said:
83: You have confused the "Demand surrender" option and "Surrender", and/or the "I want to be subjugated!" and "I want to subjugate you!".

OK. Funny true story: remember the NGC4 game? Well...in order to save my life I offered Roanon (Primeval) my subjugation. Unfortunately for him I offered the "you become subjugated to me treaty." If it had been intentional it would have been a great little tactic becuase, suddenly, the most powerful empire in the game was my subject. Talk about a boost to my struggling economy. I loved it. Of course, had to scrap the treaty the next turn...but it was quite a hoot.

[brianeyci]

Alneyan said:You would be surprised. Never mock the almighty Escort of Doom. Frigates might be preferred from time to time, but the point stands; these little ships can be deadly if you are caught unaware.

I was thinking of a strategy like this. A small ship, large enough just to hold the right number of boarding parties to take over a larger light cruiser/battle cruiser type ship. Armed with one puny weapon. Once a ship's shields are down, it goes in for the kill.

Brian

[Alneyan]

You do not actually need a weapon for such designs, unless you want to make them enter the fray as soon as the battle starts.

But you are not mean enough with a mere handful of escorts; you should back them by a few Storm Creators instead. Some wonderful combat to-hit minuses and shield removing storms would certainly be a nice addition for your boarding fleet. Of course, you still need to lure the enemy to your trap, and a few Security Stations would ruin your day, but if it does work... bring the champagne!

[Ed Kolis]

Here's an excuse to enter the trap then...
85. You send your ships into random storms "because that's their mission, isn't it? To explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and civilizations, explore uncharted anomalies?"

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Don't think that one really works. A spaceyard ship could be hiding in the storm, so it would then be a good idea to explore it.

[kerensky]

86. You suddenly realize that all of your most trusted advisors are true blonds (not just the hair color).

[Colonel]

87. You nuke your own home planet

[Atrocities]

87 a. You nuke your own home planet by mistake
88. The Last thing you remember doing before you went to bed was alt ctrl del out of your game, and much to your surprise when you went to resume your game the next day there was no save game file.
89. You save your game but your computer deletes it out of shame.
90. You are barred from buying SE V.
91. You download SEIV off of the internet thinking your clever and then discover you downloaded 1.49.
92. You order your planet killing drones to attack one of your worlds whole by mistake.
93. You solve your rebellion problem by blowing up the wrong planet.
94. You blow up your own home system to prove to your enemies that you are a mean SOB and that they should not mess with you.
95. Your people refer to you as the Pimple on Gods ***.
96. You are invited to dinner on an allies home world and when you arrive you present them with a gas bill for your mileage.
97. Your Queen is also your Sister.
98. Your troops are so stupid that they are beaten in combat simply by placing a single vashing bomb in their path with the words "Pick Me Up" printed upon it which they all do one by one until there are none left. 'They have to be realllly dumb to fall for this one.'
99. You military leaders are all cross eyed and have failed first grade.
100. Evidence That Your An Idiot Emperor If you identify with five or more of these entries.