Re: The neutral challenge
 

hehe, Tater, i did that myself in my current game...

now in 4th palce with myself, phong and tolyatan at war with #3 sergetti...phong are #1 with tolyatan a close 2d. currently we are, all 3 of us in partnership.


I tell ya though, those first 100 or so turns were scary 'cause on initial contact the piudon (now kaput) declared war....was a bit dicey with them until the partners of mine also declared war too http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

[This message has been edited by pathfinder (edited 14 February 2001).]

Re: The neutral challenge
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by taterbill:
But on the downside, neutrals seem to be "borders" for AI empires. I've only played a few games of SE4 so far, but I don't recall ever making first contact with an empire that had expanded beyond a neutral whose system acted as a chokepoint. So the presence of neutrals will probably (on average) really slow down the onset of First Contact and Activation.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Actually, I find them to be bothersome if their system has access to the only way into another cluster. They slow me down because they always declare war on me eventually and attack any of my ships that enter their system. Very annoying, so I either conquer them, annihilate them, or heavily escort colony ships and transports while in that system.



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Re: The neutral challenge
 

Totally random point, but sorta related to neutrals;

Anyone who wants to use that delightful generic shipset, all you have to do is create a folder called 'Neutral' in your se4dir/pictures/races/ directory, and put in a few Neutral_AI files.

Then you can play the neutral challenge feeling just like a totaly technologically archaic race would.

Theres been alot of feedback to this post, I'm just gonna have to try to play a game like that - since it did take me 30 minutes to read the other Posts. . .

Re: The neutral challenge
 

bump

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