Actually the player you have surounded has the same view of a couple systems around and we had determined the same thing ourselves and notified Gryphin. He is going to fix it tonight and restart the game.
We are in agreement it's not really fair, although we thought it was unfair to your guy who was going to be picked apart one homeworld at a time.
Edit: If your theory as to the cause is correct, and it sounds reasonable, Gryphin can fix it my merely changing the number of the starting positions on the map. We don't need to be reordered in the the game.
Although, he may want to make a completely new map, or at least make six new starting positions so we don't all have knowledge of each others positions from this mistart.
Geoschmo
[ April 29, 2003, 18:11: Message edited by: geoschmo ]