GregOP

I think the pirates are a great idea. In civilizations (1,2,3,4,whichever), there were barbarians who would attack and pillage your cities. Its the same idea in SoaSE. They are useful for upgrading your capitol ships as well as keeping other people at bay. I actually played my first game with a friend in multiplayer vs 1 computer. Up until the last 30minutes of the game I didn't even realize I could bribe the pirates, lol. So they were constantly attacking me, but I didn't care. I had fun fighti

Hello everyone, My friend and I have been playing SoaSE for a while now and enjoying it. However, at exactly 3 hours 18 minutes and 5 seconds, my friend crashed. The game freezes, at which point he has to alt tab, click "ok" on a minidump error, and then the game crashes out. At first we figured it was random, so we tried again, but it crashed at the exact same point. He has a 7950gt, athlon x2 3800+, 2gb of ddr2 ram, asus m2n-sli deluxe nforce 570 sli, Windows XP. None of it is overclo