I’ve been really into aotr and have been wanting to have a good play through as the empire for awhile now. I play on the big map with 190 planets but on all of my playthroughs I seem to be really struggling with a lot of things.

Firstly credits. On my current play I’m close to week 1 and only pulling in 7000 ish credits a week and I’m constantly needing to purchase things and saving up is almost impossible.

Secondly fighters. My first tech research is almost always the fighter upgrade so I can get the tie hunter but even with a good fighter compliment I still find most space battles I’m losing my whole fighter wing most of the time before I’ve taken out the enemies. I usually assign all my fighters to one hot key and my fleet to another and have the fighters screening ahead of the battle fleet but I find most space battles the ai will charge ahead all of its units into my fleet until it is one giant furball engagement.

Lastly the map is giant and I like playing on the big one but I struggle with no knowing the best routes and which objectives to focus on first and I’m always over extending my front line to the point that by week 100 I’m constantly under attack from large rebel fleets and pirate fleets. I’ve seen some posts saying to fully retreat to the core but should I leave some systems defended at the beginning?

I love this mod but it is a challenge