I beated all civs in a game with a pair of carriers full of fighters...

.....i mean.....this game must have de DUMBEST AI i have ever seen.......the AI designs suck (i beated several light cruisers with a single destroyer, who emerged from the fight untouched), they never use point defense weapons, making them easy targets for fighters (even in small numbers), also, the AI apparently does not defend its planets with troops....the AI seems to never get beyond the light cruiser size, too.....

I colonized a bunch of planets and, a lot of turns later, I was producing around 70.000 research points, while my closest "competitor" was barely making 20.000 points (and had more planets and population than me), other empires barely had any research.....in fact, some stupid empires were producing more (useless) intelligence points than research points........you probably already noted all the things describid above while playing, so my conclusion is that as long as the patches or mods fix these issues, the game is practically unplayable......

sorry for my english
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