Ugh, this is what I hate about AoC, too. Look, I'm an adult, I have a family of flesh-and-blood people, I have a full time job. I don't have the time resources to spend an entire bloody weekend playing ten other folk in a sixty planet star system. If you don't like the game's AI then you just adjust it in the game set-up. What do you want them to do? You want to be able to hold them over a barrel and say: "Gimme all your crystal or I'll bomb Aldeberan back to he information age! Nyah-ah-ah!" You want dialog options like in the first two Fallout games? C'mon, get serious.
I been hearing about all the new tweaks and stuff coming from 1.1 for like, months, now. Where the heck is it?