I feel like influence might be a bit too overpowered at the moment. Not only is there no apparent way to counter it, any system lost to influence conversion is lost for good, as they are immediately converted again the turn after you take them back by invasion. I suppose you could take it back if you managed to out-influence the AI, but I don't know if that's possible. I'm still not quite sure how spread strength is calculated, but the AI Lumeris always seem to spread 10x faster than everyone else, no matter what I do.

Influence, diplomacy and score seems to be completely whacked out at the moment. Influence is over-tuned, forced truces don't make any sense at all and certainly can't possibly be working as intended and score victories can occur before the hundredth turn.

I hope these things get addressed sooner rather than later since they're impeding gameplay and thus impeding testing.