Has something changed in Shadow Empire in terms of the alignment of new leaders and factions? My recent games show a huge divergence between the ethics I chose at player empire generation and new leaders and factions. I'm not enjoying such fractured politics.

If there was only one change that could be made, I'd ask for minors to be able to accept my protection when they are at war with another major. I like to role play a more collegial, alliance building empire. Included in that change, would be a drastic revision of the chances for minors to accept ...

Excellent!

A good answer, but I play the game partly for the immersion. I just can't reconcile the soft attack values from light tanks with 60mm howitzers that I'm seeing compared my medium tank soft attack values even though I know my medium tanks are armed with anti tank weapons.

For a start, in real life ...

Nothing I can imagine justifies the vast difference in soft attack values between light and medium tanks. The values for light tanks need serious overhaul and I hope that gets done in the short term with a patch.

I just signed up for the Beta. It looks like a great strategy game.

Cheers,
Sword