I think people's biggest problem with constant attacks is that they're not told about the factions. This is how I understand it now: if you improve your standing with a planet that has enemies, you will automatically decrease it with those they are at war with. Keep doing that and obviously you end up at a stage where you are at war with one species without even knowing why.
The early stages have a lot of help available and I think that's where the problems are with the Space stage. A little more info might be useful in that aspect.
You get the progress bar to show how friendly that species is already. How about automatically popping that up along with bars showing each species you are decreasing at the same time? Then you'd be able to tell when you were about to inadvertently start a war and stop before you got to that stage. There's so much to keep an eye on, it's a massive learning curve at that point.
I love it, but I can see where people are having trouble.
I also have to agree with the constant ransom demands - that is just crazy, especially if you're trying to advance as a peaceful species.
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