<t> So my fleet was having a staring contest with theirs and after their blatant denial of ship presence I decided to wait it out for a while.<br/>
Then my eye caught something. It was 2 of their troop transports casually moseying (this really is the best word to describe it) towards the blockaded ...

raise some tax maybe

<t> Some ants got angry at me for some reason and they impose trade sanctions on me. One of my outpost monitoring base catches a fleet of 16 of their ships heading for 1 of my colonies. So I send my main fleet up there. They totally ignore my fleet and just go ahead and put up a blockade on that ...

thx both of you, i will try as you suggested.

<t> So I ordered a construction ship to build a defensive base, then I told him to stop to repair a ship. Now the half finished defensive base is sitting there for 6+ months, my construction ship doesnt show a hammer if I hover above it to finish it nor does my colony appear to take over the task ...