Unsure if this is a problem specific to Rebellion or if it's there in all the versions, but I'll start here.
My brother and I have tried to play a number of games together on Rebellion. However, for 4 out of the 6 games we've tried playing, the game becomes disastrously un-synced after a few minutes. Sometimes it was small things, like him seeing pirates attacking my planets when I saw no pirates. Another time, on my screen I had colonized 4-5 planets, but on his game I hadn't colonized any and my forces were unmoving.
We could still type messages to each other and see pings, but most of our actions never registered to the other.
We tried at one point each saving the game on our own computers and took turns re-hosting it, however it had no effect, and the game was still completely different for each of us. It makes it unplayable.
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else recently. Any ideas?