Then you're doing it wrong 
Sweet 30 steel per turn. Pls give me break. Especially from condescending smiley faces.
There is no "wrong", only "different", with regards to play styles. If you want to play aggressively, like Oldry is doing, then you don't build arcs (or maybe the odd one as a back-up) and just pump everything into a massive fleet to take someone else's home planet, rinse, repeat. If you want to take it slowly, then you build arcs and build yourself a big empire. Depending on what you want to do further down the line depends on how many arcs you send out to each planet.
Wrong. You build fleets of 5 cruisers and go kill inactive players. Every time you get a home planet you get 16 million population in one shot. This is equivalent to 30000 arcs.
Great news, I took the 3rd planet.
Btw carlwolcotts planet has 40 battlecruisers guarding it.
