Ok... two more games and I can get ONE... a SINGLE SOLITARY FACTION... to join.  And ONLY because it was right next to me when I found it.  All others are already 3 points deep into the SK by time I find them and by time I complete ONE quest and have to wait for them to give me the next one... they are declaring war.

And this is on EASY.  

It's TOTALLY broken at the moment.  Please make this a priority.

Agreed,  Did 3 games on normal, & while the baddies spam was ok (compared to hard) ALL 5 factions allied with the SK before i could do anything about it

All my games were in 5.4 and were on small maps that my comment was in ref to.  Well almost, also played 1 tiny 1 large (lrg bogged down so only played a little) sis not cout them.

Strange thing; you should mention the hard setting,, now that i think about it, i did do 3 (again small maps)  games on hard and iirc it was easier to get factions to my side.

Thanks for posting about this. I'll pass the post along to the devs.