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Hi Stefan! Same here, the Ion storms hit me mid-game, a nasty one turned two times, circling my whole territory for like half the game. No decloaking of course, but lost a few ships. But then again, that's what Ion storms do, eh? So much for that. As already mentioned, the explore map addon combined with terribly large gaps in between clusters was holding me back quite a lot. When I know that even a small fleet of minor ships can butcher a large attack vessel, of course I wont send it into the unknown right away. And sending a whole fleet instead? Sure, I could have done it, but first large fleets are not available like bugs on a dirt pile, and seconds at some point I couldnt even see a destination, no planet in sight. So I waited for someone to come around, and luckily the Cyborg asked for it. Then at least I had a direction where to look. Maybe that was also slowing down everyone else a bit, who knows. I had one major fleet battle among lots of smaller ones which surprised me, there was no way to calculate it for me since it was a surprise attack, maybe my enemies can help out here later. I think that loss was pretty cool, since an alliance of smaller (score) players could beat an alliance of stronger players with almost no loss, stopping the destruction of their empires immediatly. Such options are rare in other games. So thumbs up here! A bit sad is the lacking compatability with EchoView, I am oldfashioned and still using that. Enemy ships which have been in battle dont show their stats there, so I needed to make notes. But ok, thats just a minor thing. I would like to try it again, but maybe without explore map then

Hi guys,

now that the game is quite advanced, and probably some battles happened, I'd like to ask: do you have any comments on FLAK? Did it work like you expect? Did it surprise you? Did you notice it positively or negatively? What else did you notice in this game?

I had some smaller fights that went like expected, so nothing to complain about the battle engine.

I got the most negative impression from the presence of ion storms (which, honestly, were an unintended mistake when setting up the game). Because the Lord punishes little sins immediately, my entire empire was covered in ion storms for the first few dozen turns, which negates the Lizard's cloaking ability.

--Stefan