In febuary 2008 ill be getting a PUPPY?? haha
I do understand what vain is saying, but i also see the preformance problem and the need for more strategic battles.
Im not in the favor of unit caps, but it has actualy been, quit fun to have logistic put in. You now think more about your capital ships. You sure dont wanna loss a lvl 5 or above cap ship anymore, as they are quit powerful now.
About the preformace issue, i can tell you in beta 1, we had the chance to build as many ships, as we wanted to, but at the cost, that the game would become VERY slow and laggy.
I used a P4 3.5ghz, 7800gs+ AGP, 3GB ram. Most players will be using a PC around those specs, even the rich guys at Stardock (cough, yarlen, kryo, Zoomba) use systems like this.
Heres screenshots of a battle in beta 1, where the frames per second was below 20.

