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