I just got Beam to join my corp, he lost a Flagship to Corp #3. Take your time on the offer, think it over. If we can't team up, at least we can be allies with a common enemy and share information on them. Like find their home planet and mine the heck out of the sectors leading to it.
There used to be a trick I pulled on 1.X with Ferrengi. I would get a Merf, lay down 1 fighter per sector leading to the enemy base, use full sheilds, and then attack a powerfull Ferrengi with all my remaining fighters. Then he would follow me into the sectors leading to the enemy base, eating my shields along the way. Then I warp into their base sector and get zapped by mines and quasar cannons, but so does the Ferrengi. Along the way he leaves 100 to 1000 Ferrengi fighters for every 1 of mine he destroys. Plus he just helped me moth their Quasars. Usually most of their fighters are on the base planet, and if they weren't parked there, they would have a hard time getting in past the Ferrengi fighters. Plus the sector fighters would be gone, replaced by Ferrengi fighters, so they couldn't t-warp in anymore. I bet that trick don't work anymore. I bet the Ferrengi attacks aren't based on how many fighters you have, with 0 fighters a lot of times he hit me for 0 to 5 damage.
But there are other tricks I can try, like maxing out my Flagship fighters, playing when they are on, and trying to get to the Stardock and then podding them after they t-warp in. I'm betting they are using a script for the t-warp attack which uses as little fighters as possible to capture the ship. Would give me time to launch a counter-attack on them.
If you join, I have extra ships you can borrow. I've podded about 4 Ferrengi so far, which made me evil. I'm hoping to capture a really good alien ship someday. I am farming some planets too. I am surviving, which is what I do best. If I didn't buy a lot of fighters, they would have captured my ship too.