[geoschmo]

Ok, well I'm leaning back the other way towards thinking you guys are right and it's some sort of "halfway" treaty thing. I ran the next turn offline and the ships act very similer, dancing around and whatnot. In several places where your ships are sharing sectors there are a couple of combat rounds played in each place. They do the dance for a couple rounds worth of combat and then finally wake up and start shooting on the Last round of combat.

I thought that was interesting, so I replayed the turn again this time taking control of Roanons empire and declaring war on the other guy. This time all Roanons ships go right to shooting like they should and all the combats only happen once.

This is quite bizarre to me. I know I've seen many games where one player has broken treaty and not declared war and both ships fight on the same turn. Not sure why it's not working right here. Malfador will have to try and track that down cause I've reached the limit of what I can figure out by rerunning turns.

We could roll the turn back and let you all do the Last turn over. For whatever reason Alarik's war declaration did not get to Roanon. There is no intel project that would stop a comm like that. You can tap comms or fake a declaration, but not stop one from going through normally. It must have something to do with that known communication bug that affects trades from time to time. If both of you declare war it should avoid the problem.

Geoschmo