All the time saw his fleet around. Or jealously the df of his fleet.
But couldn't do much regarding this as at the beginning I didn't have
fleet to visit him and later I was too far away.

Until now. Deneb made it possible.
Thank you, old friend.

Deneb (urza jr.) should not be taken too serious on board. He's joker with great sense of humour

btw. some year later when I started ogame polish players were white knights in shiny armour and most hated players were hordes from Deneb's nation

Thanks

LFs are good for players insecure in themself. For false feeling of safety because current simulation vs superiror fleets show draw. And for those rare people who do several crashes vs fleet of a similar size as theirs (ie. top crashes). But most of the time, if you pump also heavy ships LFs stays on planet/moon doing nothing. Lets say that 99% or more of my crashes through time show better result with some extra heavy ships than LFs included.
Because more of the heavy ships means less the damage and more profit vs inferior fleets while you still need to pump LFs if you have them all the time to maintain decent ratio vs heavy ships. And don't get me wrong, small fodder ships have their role in fleetcrashing. I see just problem here in constant need to increase their size to be par with number of heavy ships, while most of the attack show better result with just heavy ships and LFs stays at home.
And now think in bigger numbers. Once you have 50k battleships 100k of lfs would look silly, useless. You need them at least 300k to work properly as a fodder.
There's no profit in that (if lfs are sitting on planet/moon most of the time and battleships/destroyers bring profit home on a daily basis).
I prefer to have few 10k battleships more instead of few 100k LFs. It's more efficent profit-wise.
This makes me more vulnerable at server as this one with more superiror fleets around, but that the different story now...

You're correct regarding rapid fire. At servers as this one even heavyfighters aren't completely useless. They can be decent fodder. Just a bit crystal costy vs lightfighters.

Small cargos have also other specific right now.
Even if I build them 10k, it still won't be enough of them long term. So I don't mind to build them (and sometimes send on attak and rebuild) as I know that I will need them all the time.
Right this moment I would rather have 10k - 15k small cargos than 10k -15k lfs as example.

Cruiser actually isn't ship of my choice. If possible I would rather pump just BSs and (later) dessies. But that's somehow my compromise to not be completley exposed vs fleets with BS + mass of lfs & sometimes it's still needed to send more ships than just limited number of BSs...