It is a wall of text, but an awesome wall of text. Thanks! You do bring up a good point about surrender behavior removal - I would be ok if it were somehow a toggle-able option in the game setup menu where you select fleet size, active pirates, etc etc. I too have peaked at the surrendering AI but have found more often that their situation isn't terrible; they just need to hunker down and play defense for a bit. But then again ,I play for fun and not for competition or speed. But I miss running into a grav well and seeing 5 different factions duking it out. I miss the LOLz.

In any case, I think Surrender Behavior is a worthy enough topic of itself and hasn't been discussed enough. That said, were you able to find a way to "cheese" it by building say, 1000 scouts or whatever?

Edit: That said, in the past surrendered players would generally park their fleets (in my experience) but now it seems liek they will still jump to their other holdings to defend. Up to a point. THIS may be dependant on the quality of AI. BUt this spawns to other questions for you:

1. Can you delay surrender behavior by improving an AI's difficulty level after a game has started/mid-game?

2. IS there a utility that can un-surrender a player? I think it could be neat if somehow surrendered AIs can spawn into a new player or something, this increasing the incentive to wipe them off the map. Nuke them form orbit, just to be sure.

I don't mean to ask a stupid question but is the dlc any fun at all? Does it make any difference in 5s games on ICO? If so please explain because i haven't yet purchased anything or is it free?

Sacrificed a bacon double cheese burger king burger and bought the dlc anyway. I don't want the guys online to think I'm less cool being a host  without the latest updates.

Im really hesitant on these things because they really seem like distractions from an all out Sins 2 game. Either way I thank the devs for showing there still with us.

The new DLC doesn't add anything for Team PvP games.  It just ends up feeding XP to capital ships and titans.

It's good that game is developing. Will there be new conten, like new ships, or better new race? This game is unique, because like in Warcraft 3 it has heroes and skills, other space strategies don't have that. Trader Emer Coalition (TEC) as people, Advent as elves, Vasari as orcs. You miss the undead, ice world should be their homeworld, because other three races already have three basic types of planets of earthlike, desert and volcanic types, only ice type remains. You don't have to devide race into factions, just add it. There are a lot of people who want to play Sins of Solar Empire with new content.

1. Fixed by optimization.

2. Fixed.

Both are in v1.86

Awesome, thanks again for the great game!