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[Archpaladin Zousha]

But which ships are the right ones? What composition of different types is most effective in a fight versus cost efficiency? How do I maintain a stable enough economy to both support said fleet AND my colonies and do research and stuff? The longest I ever played my empire was literally living hand-to-mouth as I was juggling selling out entire stockpiles of my resources to keep any of one of them from going into the red for too long, and again, it didn't HAVE combat ships to support.