I think that the lack of diplomacy will scare a lot of players away but such features are propably tertiary concerns to the devs. Such a small team propably has to set some strick paths when adding new features...
I think the AI is a bit lacking - programming it to use the same exploits/"exploits" as humans use would make it a lot better.
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