Dragonstring

I don't recall having too hard of a time figuring everything out. The minimalist information is perhaps a little annoying at first, but after going through the game a few times (or 20 times), you should have an easy time remembering everything. After figuring it all out, it's actually nice to not have all that unnessisary info cluttering up all the screens (i don't need a detailed description to know that an invention matrix is better than a research academy). Also, i don't see why it's nessisar

That's scary, a similar thing happened to me just yesterday. I attacked a fleet of Thalan battleships with a fleet with very similar attack and defence values (same catagories as well). Their attacks averaged 20 dmg per shot while mine were never above 10. I won the battle, but only after suffering around 400 dmg to my 200. There is simply no way pure luck could've caused this (and i really loved that fleet too <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Crying.gif" border=0 align="abs