I've got a question for you regarding the gateway map where I play with maxnumber of AI on hard level and everthing except ship speeds and culture on low speeds(upping the speeds reduces my problem but it's still there).

My issue is that after about 20 to 30 mins in the game, sometimes even before diplomatic mission time out I get happily gangbanged by the AI. This happens particularly on this map, I tried some others and had no issues or at least it was manageable.

I always check my graphs and low and behold I'm always in the upper tier of the players in about each stat, except number of planets before the gangbang. Most often all AI's happily hop into my systems within max 5 minutes spread  and just finish me off. They do not fight eachother at all.

Is this a map issue or is this simple a strategic oversight on my side with the reduced option settings?