Still enjoying the game and I think I'm ready to try an online game, if anyone wants to set up a game my name is Rax Dakkar (like always).
The one thing thats bugging me (and this is pretty universal to all RTS's) is the feeling I get that during my huge 9 FFA, every computer player was out to get me. It wasn't a minute that would pass without another, different enemy deciding he would bomb my planet and leave. The most annoying thing was that I was the only one actually trying to desctroy a player, not just bomb a planet and leave, but once I exausted my fleet, an AI from an entirely different galaxy comes in and takes all the planets I "liberated". I felt so cheated, and since I lost so much just trying to kill this one guy, that with all the other players repeatedly bombing my planets, my economy was just in shambles. I could have tried to just turtle my way through, let the AI thin themselves out, but then they would all have so many planets, I wouldn't stand a chance.
Guess I just wasn't ready for that big a game yet.