If I have Industrial Sectors, I will build them on tiles with large manufacturing bonuses (>100%), or even 100% tiles if my economics are good enough to stand it. They usually are, by the time I get IS. This presupposes the eco to support the mfg. costs.
Fanatically. I find that the ai's, so called, rarely use it at all, and never effectively (yet?). So with relatively modest effort on defense research, and a moderate effort on miniaturization, I can field a single frigate (my terminology) based on a small hull up against an opponent fleet with three "heavy fighters" (again, small hull) and destroy them all, every time, with no damage in the majority of the encounters. My ship is 0/0/4 - 10/18/0; the opponents are usually 0/3/0 - 0/0/0. A mor
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Hmmm. Strong perimeters are subject to penetration/exploitation (although I'm not sure the computer opponents are that smart--they seem kind of slow). I suggest a few very strong fleets at (interior) strategic locations, and use of interior lines. It's (barely) working for me in my first game--so far. I keep a small force (e.g., two heavy fighters) at strategic points on the perimeter to discourage cherry picking unguarded planets (usually all of them, except for ships in repair, fleets abuil
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