Bill Farrar

I have had that happen to me with the Drengin.

This is a bug that is supposed to be fixed in the version 1.1 patch

As far as I know, you don't get to see your own portrait. Still I like to think the AI's are looking at something other than that wire portrait.

You have to lower them about 10 turns before you ask for the vote. And drop them until you have about 80% approval. Then you should able to get a vote for your naked aggression. Ur, I mean justified peacekeeping in a lawless region.

Does anyone know how the game figures out a races military rating? I started a war with 20 warships and a rating of 99. I now have 150 warships and my rating has dropped to 40. The Drengin on the other hand are at a military raing of 200. Do they really have 5 times as many ships as me?

I have had the mouse lockup problem too. I always have to reboot my computer to fix it. I will have to try that mouse setting to hardware trick and see if it works.

In my current I came across a couple of class 26 planets. Yummy

I am now a couple of hundred turns into a game in a huge galaxy with all races. Several of the races only have 2 or 3 planets at this point. There don't seem to have been any wars, they just don't seem to be colonizing. The Altairians and Drengins are expanding Ok, but the Iconians and Draths and Yor seem to be having problems. Anybody else notice this? I don't know if its a bug or just something that happens sometime. I am playing on normal.