Is it normal that a FFA (me verses 3 normal random AIs) seems to be everyone against me?
This is the 2nd game where the AIs dont seem to attack anyone except me, and will happily share the same systems without attacking each other. Im playing as advent, and theres an adjacent system that keeps swapping hands between me and another advent player, but whenever the advent opponent turns up to take the world, along comes a fleet of Vasari with him (from a different world mind). Ive now retreated back to my homeworld, and both fleets are sitting on the edge of this system waiting for my fleet to move out of my home world so they can invade. They just sit there forever. This is the 2nd game Ive had the same thing happen.

Also, with pirates, do they always just automatically spawn, even if you've colonized their homeworld, destroyed their million guass guns (can they really have that many slots?) and destroyed all their ships? (there was only 1 pirate rock in this particular map). I had this happen before I patched the game.