I love the game but...

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: WoodMan

So playing with plotlines off actually removes the wreck sites, not just the story from them?  Thats handy to know, are you sure this is the case?

The wreck sites are also all labeled on the map, you could simply go into the editor and erase all the derelects at the 'Debris Field' and ' Desolation Moon' or 'World Annihilator' project sites.

Another option is to put a debris field near enough to each AI race that they can't help but find and repair them. If they find them, they will repair them.

[BigWolfChris]

I always play with the storylines off, so I can tell you there are no graveyards

But there will still be the odd advanced ship around, just now you get interesting choices with them
1) Keep them as your flagships as an advantage for 1 or 2 of your fleets
or
2) Dismantle them for technology to provide smaller benefits for all your ships and bases

Before you could mix and match due to the sheer numbers floating around, now you'll be doing well to find half a dozen for yourself

[Raap]

I rarely bother with them, since by the time I find them I usually have far better ships myself. I usually send them straight to the space port to dismantle them and get tech. I did have an interesting game where my early-game enemy managed to find two of them though. While my ships had 40'ish firepower( i.e. tech level 1 pretty much) those ship had like 400-500 or something and excellent shielding. As I was soundly beating him, I was suddenly surprisingly challenged when those ships arrived and added some much needed competition for my ships. Eventually had to combine all my fleets and ships to take them out in a single attack. Must have lost like half my ships there, but it won me the war.

[Data]

must've been an epic battle...you would be willing to go there again or next time you find them you destroy them?[:D]

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: Raap

I rarely bother with them, since by the time I find them I usually have far better ships myself. I usually send them straight to the space port to dismantle them and get tech. I did have an interesting game where my early-game enemy managed to find two of them though. While my ships had 40'ish firepower( i.e. tech level 1 pretty much) those ship had like 400-500 or something and excellent shielding. As I was soundly beating him, I was suddenly surprisingly challenged when those ships arrived and added some much needed competition for my ships. Eventually had to combine all my fleets and ships to take them out in a single attack. Must have lost like half my ships there, but it won me the war.

I've found enough Titan Beam armed cruisers and frigates early on that I can literally wipe out the defenses of a home planet with the one fleet of 6 ships.

On the other hand, I've seen AI empires do the same with 1 or 2 of the really advanced ships as well. And you should really see what happens when an agressive AI race gets a world destroyer...ouchie!