I feel this should be true in all universes, but in this one especially, probes need to be removed from fleet count ranking.
I have over 500k probes and plan on building another 500k today. I do not like how that inflates my fleet rank.
I have this many probes because I frequently need hydrogen at locations that may not have enough to launch an attack. With as much crystal as I have, I would like to have 10 million probes.
At 10% speed, they are still really fast transports at reasonable (in emergency) hydrogen cost.
The negative is it looks like I am trying to inflate my fleet rank, and I am not.