Have to be honest, diplomacy is more fun in Sins 1 than 2, in Sins 2 it's really just a case of sending the AI resources until they get a positive score? Unless I'm missing something about it. Sending peace envoys, offering them resources to undertake missions was better, and it was disappointing that was not present in Sins 2. Hopefully it's on the road map for the future.
The AI annoyingly builds all the structures in a tight bunch in clusters, the same things happen with AI placement using the planet management menu. Please can the AI have some work on placement that actually makes sense? It would make battles more challenging/fun if some simple rules where made around fairly logical structure placement, and it would make the planet manager more useful for players across large maps, or during intense tactical gameplay.
You can hold left shift and target all ships by right clicking on the ship type in the enemy fleet window on the right hand side of the screen, i think that your selected fleet will each target one of the ship type, unless i misunderstood the display, I had a long game yesterday evening.
