Last night my buddy and I were playing Diplomacy and we both had issues with our fleets not following orders.  For example, we both at one point told our fleet to retreat and mine started but then at some point before leaving they stopped and started to attack again.  I lost two Caps because of this.  My buddy had something similar happen to him.

We also noticed that the pirates are uber powerful now.  Not that it is a bad thing.  They can be turned off.  I went after the pirate base with 4 Caps and support fleet only to be hammered by almost 150 ships!  Ouch.  Interesting change for them.

Finally, what is with the crazy game speed at the beginning of the game and when you pause for a period of time?  Instead of running normal throughout, the first of the game seems to be at double speed and if you pause for any length of time, the game speed goes back to warp speed and will sometime later slow back to normal.  Very strange.

Thanks.