The #faction ship #name has bee physically controlled

[SuriViruS]

Hi,

I'm new to freeorion. Though figuring out the most gameplay/mechanics on my own,
there's a point I don't fully understand.

Somewhere @turn nr. 460, I recognized that I'm loosing ships to another faction (message example as seen in the topic).

Is this an enemy attack?

[SuriViruS]

A deeper look at the research-tree and I found it.

"Psychogenic Domination" - Allows Mindcontrol
- means it grants a 10% chance to take control of another factions ships.

It was the last tech in "Learning" I did NOT have completed, but my opponent had it.
Though my fleet has been in range of the factions planet, they got assimilated.

I jumped back 69 turns to an older savegame, and reaserched PsychDom before the other factions had it

[Geoff the Medio]

Yes; there are numerous threads discussing this tech and game mechanism, and ways for it to be changed / improved. You might want to search the forums for them, if interested.