My first game in TA is coming to a close (immense, so it takes a while).

anyhow, noticed the following things, a couple of which are minor bugs, and the rest of which are probably not bugs but just me not understanding something:

1) when I put scouts on auto-explore, they group together and all go explore the same place.  on an immense map when I want to see what's out there, having half a dozen scouts scouting only in one direction in a swarm doesn't seem right.  hehe  Even when they start off in different areas, they go and join the swarm when put on auto-explore.

2) Had one CTD, had been playing for many hours though, and have stuff open in the background that I've been alt-tabbing to, so its probably just me having too much open or a conflict w/one of the other programs or whatever.  Not a big deal, took many hours before it happened.  I'm not too worried about it at all, but might as well mention it for completeness sake.

3) The manual appears to be the Dark Avatar manual even though its named the TA manual, and even has a TA pic on the first page.

4) manual says (p. 34) that you suffer a permanent diplo penalty for declaring war on someone you have a econ/research treaty with.  Since the treaties are one way, giving you only 1 of each to give out, while at the same time you can take several of each w/out reciprocating ->  its unclear if the penalty applies only when its one of the two you have to give out, or if it applies even if you are merely the recipient.

5) This is probably me just not understanding something rather than a bug, but after researching alliances, there doesn't appear to be any alliance option in the trade screen (perhaps I have to raise my friendliness level w/the target first?).  Would be nice if it would still appear, but be greyed out w/an infotip or whatever if that's the case. 

6) I'm playing the yor w/the default color scheme and symbol.  Random opponents.  I come across the dark yor -> same color scheme and symbol, and right next to me.  Got a little confusing, visually.  Until i marginalized them like the pretenders they are.

7) Opening the planet list simply opens the list then I can jump to a planet or not as I choose adn when I choose, keeping the camera in its current location if I wish.  When I open it defaulting to the ship list, however, it auto-selects a ship and moves the camera to that position, unselecting whatever I had selecting and losing my place on the map.  (doesn't sound like a big deal, but on an immense map it can take a minute to find where I was again).