I’m trying to create a circular 10 players game, but all the 3 times I tried had 2 empires with 1 or 2 of his initial stars placed too far from the homeworld, like on the middle of the galaxy, or even amid other empire initial stars!
After the fifth try, I chose the empires to star far from each other, and it did ok. Then I tried again with the same configuration and the problem happened.
thanks for the heads up on this issue. I have debugged the problem and will submit a fix in a few hours.