I am tired of being forced to fight on the hardest difficulty just to get a chance that more than one of the AI i fight isn't totally useless. From the 20 or so games ive played through so far ive seen one consistent thing across them all, one AI is just heads and shoulders above the rest, they cheat more, pump out 10x more ships then all the others combined, and the rest just wait around till they ruin their economy and have to surrender to someone on the other side of the map. 99.9% of the wars i see are across the universe and no ships actually ever fight.

and given the turn lengths and lack of any ability to play turns afk, or speed turns up manual, there is no multiplayer function even available/playable for this game yet.

Basically, we need more options to interact with the AI, currently the one option of trading isn't enough. How do i tell a fleet of AI to not cross my space to invade a system on the other side without going to war!... and don't get me started on how useless they made minor races in the game. the only fix ive seen is to rename my transports envoys when i go to invade a planet.