I've been trying to play multiplayer games on my LAN, it always crashes or disconnects before we make much progress in a game. I feel the ship positions/order status freezes every 15 minutes or so during a multiplayer game, possible lag or sync issues. I've had a couple games die because the host has its Graphics Adapter reset during play (no error messages, CtrlAltDel to end task). Also the client computer has disconnected randomly after about 40 minutes of game play, with no error messages, it just shows the network status screen and says the host is disconnected on the client computer.

The real ass-kicker in this all is that the "load multiplayer game" function doesn't work, so all that time is wasted. The multiplayer game does autosave, but the autosave wont turn into a hosted game. Error messages:

Failed to find file '' in either primary path or secondary path. subDir(Galaxy)
Failed to Open File: '..\..\DataSource\Galaxy\'

Pirates seem to always attack the player who is doing worse.

Also, the ability to turn off pirates is gone.