Wow

Just had my first real multiplayer game, me and friend vs. the AI. It was fantastic. I had two massive fleets and the performance stayed high the entire game! The visuals are wonderful. The automatic research upon trying to build something new is also fantastic. I can go on and on about the positive experience I just had. The future of this franchise is great indeed! Thank you for making Sins 2!!!

If I were to give feedback, the icons with no text is a bit of a learning curve (we got the hang of it relatively quickly though).
The other feedback I would give is the pirate and bounty system. I think I was either missing raid indications/auctions or the AI was using the bounty system on me to give me unexpected pirate attacks. It wasn't a big deal, and the pirates only really got me once, I learned and better defended all planets.