Conflict87

Are there any tutorials for mapmaking? If there aren't, I'm going to make one. I just taught myself within a few hours.

Ohh, that explains why my posts weren't going through. I have a feeling we're gonna see a lot of duplicate posts today.

It should be an option in the diplomacy dialogue.

Another idea I just had: Give pirates a base of operations. Take a random unhabitable planet in the galaxy and make it the pirate base. It should be fairly well-defended, and pirates will continue to spring up throughout the galaxy until it is dealt with.

I agree with others. Pirates should be somewhat weaker (or less numerous), and stick to attacking trade ships, and there should be an additional economic penalty to any civilization with pirate fleets within their borders. Pirates should hurt your economy, not your military.

"I really should upgrade all the defenders to defender 7, but kind of lazy about doing that work, its a pain to upgrade all individually which I did with all hte defenders built until I stopped at defender 4." There is an "upgrade all ships of this class" option when you are upgrading one of your ships. It's not very noticeable, but it's there.