I'm currently starting a new empire (The Eastern Fringe coalition), but if I have time I'd be happy to help you.
Lazy? Fuck no. Military gov is bugged and keeps reassigning the positions of everyone in the empire, and not in the way it was intended. So most of the guys cant build, because they may start a city, but then lose control of it the next day. Instead, we can capture shit in the mean time. And by the way, we are now TL10, have cryo and iotubes, and are now fully capable of stopping most incoming threats. Time to gobble up some smaller empires...
weve got a decent convoy crew of 8 people with good ships atm if thats what you're asking and freelancer also happens to not be a broken piece of shit
We've got similar circumstances here, most of the bigger issues with bugs we have figured out, its quite playable but it does have some network lag due to all the data the 32 servers are forced to keep track of.
I'll be requesting to join the BSID Empire (in Hazeron), my in-game name is Twistshock. Have someone pop me a message when ya set it to open (steam acc name: com_killa)