Woo! Update!

I thought the same thing at first, but its really nice that they have mixed things up.

beta 'looks' great quick question;

Is anyone else not able to see their ships? i can see the icons but when i zoom in the models are gone, and its the same with planets. Odd thing is, stars and nebula are there. Is this because its a beta or a general bug?

ok. i deinstalled sins and entrenchment....re-downloded and reinstalled them and diplomacy. And now it doesnt work *sigh*. i tried unistalling and reinstalling again and it still wont work, (entrenchment works fine btw). It either does a mini-dump or it says XINPUT1_3.dll was not found, try reinstalling, la de da. Is there a fix for this?

p.s thankyou for your previous quick repsonse

        I guess it's  because I play locked teams, but why would you want to spend resources to befriend someone when your eventually going to have to kill him? Why spend time and money to improve you and your ally, for at the same cost you can use it to attack? It's more fun to spend the money on blowing things to space dust. Now the pirates improvements are good, I just hope that the ai can handle you using pirate missions against them.

Please fix superweapons.

Envoy ships should be able to let fleets it's assigned to special abilities. Such as passing thru a neutral well with out being attacked, you could jump a well without fights.

yay, Double post

I think diplomacy would have been more use early game when you are struggling for cash and allies would be useful.

Late game I have such a huge income that diplomacy is irrelevant.

The pacts for the Advent seem to be out of order. Minor issue.

I'd really like to see the planetary bonuses improved as well. More and varied discoveries, and artifacts that are better, or else more.

I agree with Fuzzy Logic that you need diplomacy features early game, but get them late game.

A Galactic UN would be absolutely amazing.

Quick question regarding this bullet:

Pact bonuses do not stack (i.e., if Player A has a Research Pact with Players B and C [all Advent], Player A will only get the bonus from one Pact, not both).

If that is the case, how can you make sure that you are having the largest bonus? i.e: I'm Player A and can have a Research pact with either Player B or Player C. However, Player C has a much larger research abilities than player B. How can I tell that? Is there a spying option in order to better understand which player is more suitable to pursue a Research Pact with?

Or is the bonus from all the Research Pacts is identical, regardless of the research prowess the empires currently posses?

No embassies? What a relief! It would be a pain to have to command your envoys to go establish embassies on every homeworld in the map (also might need to get long-range phase jump research cleared before doing so on some maps), and establish new ones on changed homeworlds. Now, as for the changes, I like! The idea of pacts is pure genius in my opinion! But I do have some caveats/questions:

- First, the Vasari pacts can be used with any player: all have phase drives, structures, resources, armaments (which I noticed was mispelled "armnament", but it's still a beta ). What about the Advent and TEC? I don't think an Advent (or Vasari?) player can make use of the TEC's missile pact. I was wondering if this is in line with the Advent's beam pact. If it was intentional, I'd like to know. But I'm liking the pact system.

- Second, the AI is handing me missions like crazy, and I don't know if this should feel right. I mean, this is obviously gonna affect the mission rejection happiness parameter, but if it does so gradually and slowly over time, then I guess I have absolutely no problem with that.

- Third, would a crystal pact for the TEC be more valuable to other players than a metal pact? I mean, metal is important, but crystal is actually rarer, and that would give other players a better incentive to make a pact with TEC.

Great work, Ironclad! Keep it up!

Second that motion