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I have been playing V20E9 with the intention of not performing any ground combats and with the aim to highlight the following issues. 1. That the relationship bonus being tied exclusively to shooting down aircraft is to the detriment of the game. First thing I did was sell all my soldiers and fire my scientists (after researching Mig's). I have bought hangars at every opportunity to fill all available space and bought aircraft at a ratio of 1 foxtrot for every 2 condors. The first two months, saw me shoot down mainly l.scouts, scouts and the occasional corvette. I would air-strike every downed aircraft. I didn't lose a single aircraft by virtue of the fact that I was able to send 3 aircraft in every wave, and if needed send out two waves to destroy each enemy squadron. This is what my base looks like at the end of 3 months. I also have a Central America base with 2 foxtrots (in progress) and 4 condors (available). My profit each month is $400,000 from funding and I gained a net increase in funding of $120,000 this month. (-$45,000 and -$90,000 in months 1 and 2). I reckon I am making about $400,000 from shooting down aircraft in month 1 and 2 and this is now up to $600,000 in month 3. That is a net profit of $1,000,000 despite doing no missions. A enemy base has showed up and obviously I can't do anything about it. But that's ok because its giving me a steady stream of landing ships to shoot down with a very lucrative $70,000 per strike without any risk to myself. Now I know I am only 3 months in but I wager that at this rate I am going to have complete dominance of the skies by the end of month 5. Probably by then I will have around 4 bases. At this point I will be able to buy some soldiers to do a couple of missions and quickly gain technology and research through sheer numbers. Obviously I haven't come across anything larger than a corvette with 2 heavy fighter escorts but again this isn't an issue. One wave of condors to take out the fighters and then one wave of foxtrots to take out the corvette. I'd imagine any larger aircraft might take 3 waves, but I have enough aircraft for this. more to follow