Love the game! And I didn't believe the complainers about all the AI's ganging up on you - Well it pretty much is a non stop occurrence now. I thought I could power past them and was building up a nice little armada of maxed out tech ships. Then two empires warp in ... one bringing in about 40 ships and the other a cloud of ships including 10 capital ships!!!!
This is a large map with 8 AIs I think - Oh yeah ... and this is on EASY! Fricken EASY! Please ... I BEG you ... get rid of the $%#$& penalties associated with these diplomatic missions! They don't make any sense and they pretty much make the game an exercise in frustration!
Dano