The way shields are set up in this game needs to be changed a bit.
One thing I would like to say I am not taking anything away from any other player who has put in the time to gain mass fleets...
But I see one terribly wrong calculation for the game. Take for example this mock battle... 1000 ships with 25 attack power (like small fighters) attacks a ship with much higher shielding and armor (like a DS). Even though the shields are much higher for the DS than the combine attack power of the fighters, the fighters should still damage the DS.
for example.... the 1000 fighters 25 attack power would be negated not totally but 99%. leaving 1% of 20 attack power for the 1000 fighters would "bleed through" and damage the DS a LITTLE.
The current set up leaves everyone at the mercy of one player killing any fleet that gets 1/10 his size with almost zero losses...
And the current setup leaves no room for joint attacks to take down larger enemies, making the game almost completely a single player game with the use of alliances only keeping some players from attacking you.
thanks for listening to me. hope the suggestion is taking into consideration.
There would be enough DF to supply the whole game...cept..SBT would send his 2 mil Cargo ships to pick it up befoe anyone got there! 