Hmm I tried this using a heavily armed resupply ship as my ship. Needless to say the game lasted 20mins before I died, and my empire was losing a war that had I been in control would have lasted 30 seconds

<t> I find that it's only the guys who hate you anyway that get upset about it, but these are also the ones who will pay the most to get that base off you, thanks to how the costs of things are based on relations. I also usually end up having a large amount of trade with these same empires, I think ...

<t> I've never had a big issue with having bases in their territory unless war is brewing anyway, as long as you have enough money to gift them, have good trade with them and kill every pirate base you find you can keep bases in their systems. Though as these can be sold for millions you might not ...

Go Pirate Hunting. Killing pirate bases is the best way to get your reputation up. Mine always heads straight to heroic and stays there because I mercilessly hunt down every last one of these.

<t> Now that DW has fighters and such could troop ships not require dropships? So a single dropship carries 1 troop then returns to the ship to pick up more. These dropships will be vulnerable to enemy fighters and point defence. This would allow a number of different troopship strategies: Carrier ...

Can the advisor be a paperclip and can you have the option to use the planet destroyer on it?

Yeah, I'm sure navies are supposed to be about deterrence and providing a show of force as well as just smashing other fleets

I think everyone has their own ideas about this but to me it should be based around military strength in the area you want to control

I dont think owning a whole sector is a great idea, it just gives you the option to "claim" territory whilst requiring a large amount of effort and limiting the amount of territory you can claim like this

<t> A simple option when controlling a fleet could be "claim system" this could also be expanded to "claim sector". This would allow you to send a fleet out to patrol an area and to turn away any other empire's ships, possibly set to that empire's settings for when they fight so if they are set to 2 ...