Hello all, before I get to the core of my post I would like to say that I am very impressed with the support this games player base has given the developement team. As a former member of Electronic Arts Tiburon's QA team, I am especially happy to see a proactive fan response to issues as opposed to the general "AHHH Game is teh FAIL!" that most games get.

On to my issues, It seems I am not being aggressive enough early game, I tend to use vasari and focus on getting my space whale as close to the enemies home as possible (usually adjacent) and build a repair bay to shut down their expansion. I have previously attempted Eco rushing or absolute military focus. It seems no matter how I go about it my opponent ends up with significantly more LRF's than me and even a second capital at a point I would otherwise consider impossible given available resources.

It has gotten fairly frustrating to show up with a few revastras and kanraks only to be greeted with 40 illuminators that have somehow been produced with the same resources I had. Attempting to play advent for awhile resulted in me still being massively outnumbered by my opponent's illums, How do they make so damn many in so little time....I must learn this..

the second question I have is how a player is eliminated. I recently played a 5 hour game where only myself and one human opponent were left. I destroyed every single ship, planet, and structure he had and he was not "killed" Furthermore he stubbornly refused to quit the game, simply leaving his computer so I had to kill the other 3 bots he had "two of which were RA vasari " In essence I found myself with a 5 hour game I played well and won, which ended in a loss for me when I quit at 5:30am......I was upset.

Any advice or information I can be given on these questions would be greatly appreciated. Furthermore, if there a group of folks who would like to play (pref those who will not quit early or be....how shall I say.....n00b) plz let me know online, my online name is Baconfortress