Stu, your idea is already partially realized, there is a button ingame that takes you to the game chat which is for all servers I saw that before I posted. ;) The "all server chat" is Great, but the current client is painfully rudimentary and offers 0 options for alliances to sharpen in-game commun...

I was actually pretty suprised not to see an ingame pop-up chat for, at very least, alliances. If server load is an issue, why not integrate an outside program such as mIRC with ingame links to meeting places for ZE.(i.e., Alliance Chat, Universe Chat) Not sure how hard or how much this would be, bu...

That was my next guess, Thanks.

Kind of a bummer though, I would have enjoyed starting a debris field. =]

Noob question: Been playing this game about a week now, still very much noobing around, but I got this mIl today An enemy fleet at the planet ...... was sighted near your planet .......... Does this mean I am being attacked, or does it just literally mean the fleet is just near my planet? Be easy on...