I only do full Spoilers, lately with no SM augments on setup. The secret of my success has always been Railgun spam, Missile spam, deep space tracking installation spam, planetary hanger bays, and a "turtle" in Sol strategy. A railgun/shipkiller missile combatant is never hopelessly obsolete, only insufficiently numerous.
EDIT: For posterity my survey strategy is most popularly a fighter with a high efficiency engine, either a grav or geo sensor, and nothing else.