Hi, I just started my first game and explored a few neighboring star systems, and one neighboring empire just destroyed my explorer and then offered peace. I looked in the diplomatic options several times but all i could do was go to war. I assumed I needed a technology to offer peace and offer trades. Is this the case?



Also, my production seems to have stalled. My people are happy and its been saying the production would take 4 turns, but hasn't moved. It also did the same thing for a different production of a procreator which was previously in the queue. I bought the procreator but obviously that was just a quick fix. How do I get my production to work properly?

As to your first question, yes you need technologies to offer diplomatic options. You can find them in the left side of the tech tree.



As to your production issue, did the queue continuously say 4 turns? Generally when my production stops, its says 999 turns. This is because a strategic resource I need to build what I'm building has been lost because of trading or a blockade.

My guess would be that production to dust/science is the first item in the queue and it has to be removed or moved