I agree, i stoled your moves, since they worked for you i figure i should add em to my arsenal... i didnt spread my power instead i figure i had to treat each colony as if it was a seperate account therefore only build for it as it was my only colony thus by getting rid of all the wasted colonies i got rid of the weakness of not being able to protect them all, i took a hit in fleet production but gained a massive strategic move by each colony for me becoming each sangraal, tho their not fully upgraded like my main base they are only a week or two away from being unbeatable and was able to assemble a defense that in return will beat any existing attacking fleet in the game, thus taking myself out of the game and in turn just sit back and let it regrow while here and there testing new ways to compensate for alterian or draconian weakness aswell as learning better ways to use minimum valhallas to destroy asmuch as possible to raid and figure out whats the most damage i can inflict to a super fortress colony thus i have learned much from the game and now can sit back build to conquer super fortresses if and when i decide to come out of the darkness

Your points are valid but most players build for population not sure if they think that gives them a status of being strong, the more they build as we talked before the more defensless they are but in the long run it gives em back time to build fleets in no time but if a player wants to attack em they will pay for their mistake by never building a fleet, the defense i stills ay is a mismatch in the case of defenseless colonies thats a player flaw, im taking moves from xeno they are more affective in draco

Most players now want hand outs and they are willing to lose everything in a brainless raid or attack, they dont care for troops because they never took the time to appreciate what each marine or thor ever did for your colony, im a shiesty player i hate to lose even a single marine this new ones waste everything and a few are demanding to players as myself to tell em or show em how i build and they cry when you dont and hold a grudge, so they send everything my way they lose then make some story up and drama starts, it still a defense bug but depending on which side your on if your defending you say no is not is awesome but if your attacking you say wtf thats some bs, we both defended and attacked so i dont know i never took time to do the math, because you cant really predict or know the exact number of a defending player if they have agents so is all pure guessing, so to each its own