Firstly nice production output.
i need to focus there
You should attack a lot more, the higher your rank, the more difficult it will become to get reds. You require 512 reds for dominion mk3's which takes little space for maximum damage. Even much higher ranks have them still equipped due to ratio of deck/damage.
Post a pic of ship modules. Would be easier to help then.You ship is also big ( i'm like staying somewhat small ). Max damage cap on your ship is 220+-( think formula is deck/2 +19 ) with little defense. Max damage is maximum damage any ship can make to you. Thus try and keep your hull in nice ratio. Say 2000 hull means someone that can reach your max cap each hit would take 11 hits to disable equals 55 energy. Look if someone wants to disable you, they WILL. but make it expensive. I just spend 300 energy to disable a guy rank 80. His damage cap was 55 with 2000 hull.
1# RAIDING: When you disable ship raid it, cause can buy protean armory. gives 200 hull + 7% to raiding. Easy way to get yellows, open 4 screens with galaxy legion, click each on different target, refresh every now and then to see if maybe someone else disabled them. Easy yellow.
Cheap tactic, but think will help you catch up.
2# DISABLES: Go for laughables, if BT is only insanes, attack them once, close ship window to get new ship.
3# BASES: Get base disables with your legion. Silvers are awesome way to get defense modules without spending any research on defense. BM50 convoy gives 100 defense for 20deck. Some would say get surge plexus first for NPC. If you dont mind disables then go that route first.
4# SCANNERS: :leave them, use scan artis to better see what your enemy has on their ship, go for those with least hull / defense.
5# Cloak: use dark parymids, give 50cloak for 8hours!! WINNER!!
My ship at rank90, currently attack very little as i change race to help defend our base.
Space: 315 / 315
Attack: 666 ( evil attack : )
Defense: 897
Scan: 6
Cloak: 50
Cargo: 147 / 190