By the time they get it repaired you can kill them with the current tech levels anyway, provided you have hyperdeny as it has a lot of armour. The only real use they have imo is to blow up the ancient guardian home world, because fuck the ancient guardians.

A way to completely forbid a system to the AI. Mostly so it stops sending colony ships to a system infested with silver mist and also stops sending tiny strike forces to a huge infestation zone to further generate more mist..

Where does the money from resorts come from? I don't see a resort base expense from the private sector expenses tab. Logically if you're getting 200k from private citizens from resorts the private sector should be 200k poorer.

<t> What Theluin said, but with the addition of:<br/>
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2) Energy collectors on military ships are generally useless unless they have a lot of components that have large static energy requirements like fighter bays. The only thing that has static energy use in most military ships are life ...

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I think technology selling for profit is pretty cheesy, though awfully tempting.<br/>
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The cheesy tactic I use is to build 20+ high tech labs pretty much first thing right at the start of the game without building any other labs. This ...

<t> Just build a max size (for your tech level) starbase in the AI's home system filled with nothing but lasers, preferably in line with the orbit of its home planet. Then declare war after it's done. Hell, build several. The AI will just let them finish and then smash all their fleets against it ...