Throughout my game I was whiping the floor clean with my enemy, I even managed to get him to give me planets when he asked for a peace treaty, but I kept going, I wanted to see exactly how the amount of time played would effect my score...
Anyhoos, throughout his ships adjusted to meet the adjustments I made to mine, i.e when I saw he started with Missiles, I set myself up with Point Def and got some guns, he saw I got guns, got some armor and moved onto guns himself. So I went onto amor... etc... etc... until we had a variety of ships each that were only any good against certain other ships, which was fine, I simply kitted a few out on each planet and had no probs.
However... then he managed to make uber ships, all defenses and all attacks higher then myself, I couldn't even match that military might anymore, he had no techs I didn't have and only Micro Repair Bots as a trade good....
He had only one Military Resource Starbase that I saw... but you can't get that much of one of those... can you? I never managed quite so much, I'm sure.
How the hell did he get so powerful so quickly? Do computer opponents get tougher if the game lasts too long or something? It'd be useful to know so that I know whether to kill early or attempt to drag a game on aslong as possible. I want a 100 year game.... but not if I won't survive past 50, lol.
Thanks for any info.
