That explains so much, thanks.

Hello,

I have a question. How does defense exactly work?

The idea I have so far is this: You put a SPECIAL on a ship. The SPECIAL has a certain amount of defense points and a def %. Let's assume the def % is 10% and the def points are 100. What I think then is that for each ship your fleet gains 10% of the defense of a single ship, thus 10. If you have a fleet of 10 ships you'd have 100 defense, 100 ships 1000 defense, etc.

This was what I thought, this is not how it works though. For a fleet of my ships my defense should have been around 380K effective. Still my fleet gets shot out of the sky with a mere 124.000 dmg. (I also had 25% dmg absorb). How does this work?