Why do people like you cry so hard when someone makes fun of you in a game anyway? Why do you expect someone to stay in a game they have already lost, that will take another 45 minutes to end? To answer your question, yes I am 6 years old, immature and really don't know any better.
Flammablecamel
Make the pirates inactive, no matter how much money you spend on them the ai will outpay them, really frustrating having to constantly play circle jerk moving your ships to stop pirates or waste money building 35 tactical points worth of shit to stop them at every planet they might attack.
What are you using to create your own map with, the map designer doesn't seem to do anything but randomly generate a map after you enter a few variables.
Ya musta just screwed up, I made a new game and tried again and they worked.
I've tried building these things with Vasari but My ships still don't go straight from one planet to the other (both have the gate built). edit--Is there a website out there with more accurate ability/tech descriptions? I've tried searching but this game barely seems to exist.