I dislike that a bunch of your allies contact you at the exact same time. It's unrealistic.
Two are at war with each other but both friends with me and contact me because they are basically attacking each other. That in it's self would be fine as you could say it was a dilemma which one to help and which one to anger or just ignore them both. (as I normally do)
What gets on my nerves though is at the exact same time someone attacks one of your own colonies either pirates or someone you are at war with. Someone else contacts you to give you money and another contacts demanding money. So you end up with a bunch of messages queued up and calls that you have to answer.
It's so obvious that some timer goes off and *ping* it triggers a bunch of stuff making you really feel like you are just on a timer. Obviously that's how games work but it's normally a bit more subtle than this.
It's like the old Tamagotchis (remember those) where it seemed random at first until you realised that they always wanted feeding at twenty past the hour.
Why can't it be more staggered?
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