ive lost interest with the single player game now... im on nearly the last mission, and its become very easy... why? because i realized that even though the game was hard, it was just "stupid hard" and not "smart hard" like the first... stupid hard games bore me, because they are simple... you just queue up a ton of shit in each of your manufacturing queues, say, 30 ion frigates in one, 30 bombers in one, 30 interceptors in one, and 30 gunships in another... then set their build destination in the middle of the battle, then get up and go watch tv for an hour... when you get back, either you won, or you didnt. if you did, do it again on the next map. if you didnt, do it again on the SAME map.

booooring.

you just throw your ships into the grinder, and either you run out of ships, or the cpu does... EVERY mission. a monkey could play this fucking game... im hoping multiplay against live opponents proves to be more satisfying... although im sure ill just run into a bunch of punk kids and cheating bitches, at which point ill just put this one on the shelf along with all the other games that could have been great, but werent...