so im going to go out on a limb here... but it feels like trade is a little overpowered right now. with our access to resources at a much faster rate compared to other players and ability to harvest effectively 12 jumps away with cargo ships... its really easy to amass a huge DN, BC fleet before other players can really defend themselves (science excluded) and fleet isn't in the game... ok so maybe combat isn't well prepared to take on a mad trader? I guess i should think this out some more and let it play out...
disregard this for now i guess - maybe im just feeling a little too powerful as trade, when the leaderboards are up and i can compare to other players it'll be nice.