Races surrendering to the pirates still

It's been fixed for beta 4.

Which part, the surrender or the crash, or both

Oh, while on the subject of pirates. I am not sure about them having planets, but maybe they should have a few scattered starbases. Either at the start of the map or when the random pirate attack starts, or both.

Are the different races space stations going to look different?

Kvim

The star bases for different races do look different now, but the difference is rather subtle. The ring in the SB without upgrades shows the race's color. A star base which has morphed thrice (seven upgrades?) has the race's color on the bumps on the paddles that extend beyond the ring.

At least, that is what I see in build 3E. Often I have seen placeholders for things like this used by the GC art department to give them time to complete their work, so I don't know if this is what the end product will look like or not.

Yes, the color is different, but that is it. I was thinking like completelly different. Terrans have ones that look like the current ones perhaps and the evil races have stuff closer to Deepspace 9 or something else with spikes and such

Then this is something that SD should answer, either with what they provide us in build 4, or with some statement here about what they plan for what star bases look like in the future, if they can find a moment to respond. (Of course, Brad loves to keep us in suspence when he has a pleasent surprise planned.)

There will be the color difference and if you have heavily built up military modules, it will start to change appearance based on that.