Bug ?

No, this is not a bug.

While the attack/defense numbers are important, it is also equally important to check your ATTACK and DEFENSE abilities (your percentages in the "stats" section) against your enemies ATTACK and DEFENSE abilities (I think you have to have the minimum espionage level to see these with the other civ tab).

If they have a few military starbases (for example) and have a defense ability of 100% and your attack is only...say 25% then the numbers become:
Your attack: 62.5 beam
Their Defense: 60 missle and 100 mass

While their attack on you is (assuming the same numbers above):
Their attack: 160 Beam
Your Defense: 37.5 beam

I don't know exactly what numbers you have in your game, but I would suspect something like this is happening in your case.

My advice would be to hunt down some starbases   

Which version of the game are you playing? The combat system from DL to DA was changed but a bug was introduced which made non-optimal defenses work better than the optimal defense. This was resolved in DA 1.6, so make sure you have the latest build.

Luck also plays a major role in combat. Say you have a ship with 200 attack and 0% luck. Then your attack varies from 0 to 200 for an average of 100. But if you have luck 25% then it varies from 50 to 200 for an average of 125!

Well is seems Joe is right i found 2 attack starbase and i have none (and low stats 2% attak and 11% def)

I ll follow is advice hunting down some starbases =p

Can you tell me how spying is working now (i can t find the old slidebar i was using before upgrading to DA, is it with agent now?)

Thanx a lot anyway for your answers (i m playing the v1.6)

Finaly i still have doubts ...

here is a link to my savegame :
http://www.mediamax.com/nakronembourg/Hosted/QuickSave.sav

you only have to pass the turn to get to the battle.

Can someone tell me wich results he gets on this fight plz ?

Thank you

Going by memory (don't have the game on this CPU): I believe the slider for DA 1.6 espionage is found in two places:
(1) at the bottom of the screen in the economics tab that displays your research, military and social sliders
(2) within the economics tab there is also a "espionage" setting which is the far right tab. That one will show you how many turns until your next spy is ready.

I *believe* to gain "minimal infiltration/spying" you need to have 4 spies in total. 3 spies just hanging out not placed anywhere and 1 spy on one of the enemies planets. It takes a few turns to get the message, but there will be a popup telling you that you have achieved basic spying against that civ. Of course if they neutralize you spy before you get the message, you'll have to try again.

I'll take a look at your save when I get back to my CPU, but with Attack and Def stats that low it is no wonder you are getting creamed!!

OK thanx a lot for your tips on spying.

i ll wait your test on my savegame if you have the time ^^ (still very disapointed to do almost no damage on the fight =p )

Hi!

I've checked your savegame and by the 12B size of homeworlds I suspect you're playing the game version with the off-type defense bug still present. Update game to v1.61 and you'll destroy some of torians' ships.

Another advice: what you need in your game is money, not production, so stop researchin the Industrial sectors. You already have industrial capacity twice too big for your econ. Convert some of your factories on non-manufacturing planets and most ISs to Stock Markets, and build on planets over PQ-10 one basic farm. But I'm affraid that will help you only short-term. The suicidal difficulty is a bit too hard for your current game knowledge.

BR, Iztok

I believe only spies you have placed on enemy planets will affect your knowledge level of enemies; unassigned spies are idle and have no effect.