Are we ever going to get single player cheats just to help find bugs (so we could find problems with BIG fleets)?
Of course not, they want all such testing to be done in house

Can we use microphones?
There are no plans to include in game voice communications.
How do we chat?
Hit the enter key, type in a message. SOP for most games

(Its what the AI does now... more or less)
like I could offer some resources for an alliance and he couldn't reject it for atleast 20 minutes or so so he woulnd't just get free resources or SOMETHING more advanced!!!
Um, what?
WHEN IS BETA 3?
Second week of September is the last given ETA.
Off topic question: does anyone have a screen of the pirate base? or do they just have a homeworld?
I don't have a screenie, but I found a dead asteroid that was more like 5 asteroids cobbled together with construction to be one
huge base. And I killed the pirates and colonized it myself

What I'd
really like to see is having the pirate base always be off the sun (like mine was, it had a connection to the sun and nowhere else) and then when you destroy the base, the planet itself goes "boom"... and the grav well collapses, vanishing permanently, as soon as all ships have left the well. (And there is no warping in, only out to the sun, and thats enforced maybe?)