defending your empire\'s borders: what do you do?
I play against the AI in TDM. I've traditionally followed a strategy of expanding as quickly as possible and then trying to defend the warp points along my "borders" as well as the planets in the border systems.
This usually works OK for a while until the end part of the mid-game where the enemy AIs have got some good ship strength up and are wearing down my defences. Often I end up walking a very fine line between having the enemy pour through my defences and successfully fending them off long enough to seal everything off so that I can't be touched, even in the end-game.
But that's "usually." My border planets are typically well defended but everything on the interior is almost completely undefended. So if the AI gets past my first ring of defence, it's curtains for me. So I was thinking I should perhaps play it more "realistically"--that is, have light defences on the border with defence getting increasingly stiffer as one reaches my home system. At least that way, a breach at my border doesn't mean near-certain defeat. But on the other hand I feel like I'll constantly be losing planets on my border and really hurting my empire.
Which approach do you take?
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