That is why I said some players would come in with fighters for the sake of causing people one less assult. But you can not say that assults will be used less than fighters.

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20:20:21 | Arcanix planet 14 Arcanix 01

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To lose an assault is easy enough when there are many warpers. Red planets are rarely found and to use assault everytime is useless. If i remember well at the time assaults were going to the warp people still used fighters a lot. And assaults were being killed. Despite greater warp frequency, less warpers and more red planets comparing to greens people were using fighters. Actually 15min is enough to kill and pirate an assault, maybe a transport too, to capture the target and to lose it.
Colonizing green wouldn't be the unbeatable acievement anymore. Till you check nearbies, hide your ship and harvest or deffend it planet might be gone already.

Even if you use an assault first it might take only a minute to enter the warp and hide the ship when you ussually find nothing there. You have nice 14minutes to grab a fighter and kill everyone

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