A Short Guide To Understand The Battle Report

First let me show you a scheme how the Theory of Sets (basic math) works in Space:

A set can contain an infinite number of subsets but can be a subset of a another set as well. The nature of this mathematical basics has it that any item of a subset is an item of the parental set as well. However a subset never contains any items of the parental set. In this case we have to understand the semantics of the word "allied" and "alliance". Being "allied" means having some subjects on friendly terms with you but this excludes you. Being in an "alliance" means being in a set of  allied subjects, this includes you as well, because the alliance is here the parental set. So the battle report shows your ("You") forces as Own forces, then it shows the report of the parental set, which would be the alliance forces ("Alliance defenders/attackers"). This continues in case being the attacking party to  all attackers ("All attackers") which includes you, your allies and 3rd party attackers. You are part of "All attackers" which your alliance is also part of and that means also you. The reason for this semantically split up report is to give a better total sum up the last battletick because it turned out that a majority players just want to see the sum of it all instead of needing a calculator to compute it by themselves.

FAQ

• Q: The report says I didn't fire any shots, is it bugged ?
  A: No, even if your report is put on top of all it doesn't mean your ships are on top of all. Once a planet for instance has been conquered or successfully defended the battle stops and the rest of the ships will be put on idle state but will nevertheless appear in your report for [Wolfowitz]bureaucratic reasons[/Wolfowitz]. Also a battle only takes place when there are enemy ships (so check for pending NAP/Alliance proposals) and only against ships having a fleet.
  
  

• Q: The report says all attackers got ore but where's mine ? My Majesty wants ore !
  A: Sadly a battle rarely follows the standards of communism so everybody gets what he earns. So if a ships kills another one then his owner will get the salvage and nobody else.
  
  

• Q: The report sometimes is screwed, I have beam and missile ships attacking and they kill odd amounts of population, this is by any means a serious bug !
  A: No, missiles kill percentually and beams absolutely, depending what shoots first you will get different results. Example: (0.5 * 10) - 3 is different to 0.5 * (10 - 3).
  
  

• Q: I think report is fuzzy bunnied up the number of shots become less and less per battle tick !
  A: No, this is a technical thing or in layman's terms:"Nothing to worry about.". Your ships just try to fire at already dead ships. This is reduced on successfully exercised class-based 
      targetting maneuvers.
  
  

• Q: I think something is wrong, I am here since numerous ticks and I still didn't get the planet, I am pretty sure I am a victim of a bug !
  A: No, you get the planet once population is down to 100.000 and buildings down to 50.
  
  

• Q: The report states I have enemies but when I look on my map there is none, why is that this game is so badly fucked up ?
  A: The enemy is using a stealth maneuver here, you may see the enemy on map after you unstealthed his fleets.