Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">But once in a while they do expand. I have seen a major surrender to a neutral and then the neutral expanded rather well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sure! Wanna play by e-mail, once a day, no combat for the first 500 turns? (That's just getting started, after all. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif =)

No? :>

(I have a feeling my style of play may be a bit... er, different, than most others')</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Umm... I do not think I have ever had a game Last 500 turns... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">500 turns is a lot to ask for in a PBW game with no combat. Most combat occurs around 50 turns and up. Think about the math on this, a game that has a turn a day for 500 days without combat. That is like nearly 2 years. NO PBW game has ever Lasted that long that I am aware of. Most die off around six months or so.

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I too would love to have a game with a bunch of neutral AI's and only a few Majors. Kinda like BOTF.

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Neutrals are very important to any game. I love neutral races. They add flavor to the game and give me aliens to conquer.

As for MM, they are working on SF at the moment and have not had a lot of time to work on a new patch for SEIV. I have heard that there will be one Last patch, and I hope that it will include a fix for several things.

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It might be possible to mod out an AI's ability to colonize or conquer by removing colony components and troops from the standard tech tree (and make them racial techs so you can still use them), which could have an effect similar to what you seem to be after.

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">How so?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You get both SE4 and Star Trek all in one.

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

I see. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Do you realize you have something like 4000 more Posts than me. When did you do this? How did you do this? Why did you do this? And what Posts have I missed?

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My thinking exactly! That's why I brought this up in January. SEIV plus the Star Trek mod plus more than five neutrals is probably a whole lot better than BOTF anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">*creates diVersion*

Look over there! It is a distraction!

*runs away*

Re: Can\'t get more than 5 neutral races
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I.. think that was kind of my point. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Ok, new rules, you can attack before turn 500. If you don't accidentaly trip over the minefield welcome mat and actually manage to carry out your attack, you get a complimentary black hole in your homeworld system. ^.^ *silly*

Basically my playstyle would be like antimatter to your matter. I couldn't really expect to play multiplayer and have the kind of fun that I want to have. :>