Got My Ass Kicked, But Game Is Fun

I have been playing since Beta 2. Now that I have the real game, it is superior to all others I have. The AI is good, and I play on normal. My first game I restarted and still lost though I started from a previous save and tried a different approach. The graphics are great and my system is stable. I have found the pirates workable reading the advice given in this forum. I have found the diplomacy missions workable and in fact satisfied a few while not intending to!!!
Thing is, I am still learning what I can and can't do, but more importantly how the AI uses exploits. Here's one. I had only one planet I was desperately trying to keep. The Prophets of Zei (?) kept sending their planet assault ships to one side of my planet. I moved my missle platforms to that side. Sure enough, the enemy sent two waves and exploited the hole I left. It was a great game and I feel good about it. There was no way I was going to win with only one planet in a large galaxy.

I don't really have any gripes, but I did notice that one time the enemy was able to "clog" a phase lane so that I could not get out. Anyone else ever see this???

Also, I am still not sure how to direct my forces when I have bombers and ships to direct. Sometimes I want to select every man woman and child to take down a capital ship, but I can't. ??

Lastly, it would be cool if, even though you lost, you could see the outcome of a game. That way I can see if the guys I supported won in the end.

Great game guys!! Worth every penny!
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Also, I am still not sure how to direct my forces when I have bombers and ships to direct. Sometimes I want to select every man woman and child to take down a capital ship, but I can't. ??
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This was done purposefully because there was a lot of feedback - basically, if you're drag-selecting ships and bombers/fighters are in the selection box, they won't be selected. You can easily alt+click on a bomber in the empire tree to select all of them. If there no ships in the band-box, it will select bombers/fighters, though.
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You can select all the ships by clicking on the left bar when soomed out of your planet (its the one that shows friendly fleets). keep clicking it, it will cycle through all the different ranges of ships..warships, fast attack craft and then colony ships.
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k. will have to try this next. thanks.