Quote from THEFORCEYou're right. I noticed this problem for a while now.
Sometimes when someone plays ranked matches, his friend doesn't know he was playing ranked matches. And if he wants to play him, clicks the challenge button which causes the player to move to the choose empire screen, causing him to lose the game. I'd like from the deverlopers to fix that problem. One more thing, there sometimes a pale yellow color next to some of my friends' names.. Instead of being green or red. What does it mean?
Pale yellow color means "away" like they are online but not up for a match. You can put yourself as away or offline even if your online