[geoschmo]

Originally posted by E3:
Actualy I have seen a neutral ship outside of its home system without my putting it there.

I had gifted the race a planet, several systems over. I guess the game interpreted all the space between the two systems, as now being a part of one system or something like that, because I saw ships flying between the systems. Don't know if he went anywhere OUTSIDE of that or not though.

That was a fluke, because it definetly doesn't happen under normal circumstances. The Neutrals are not normally able to warp period.

Ed Kolis, I actully had a similer idea to this. I was thinking instead of trying to make teh Neutrals do anything in particular each player would just have a specific neutral they were assigned to protect. Then the object would be to hunt down and kill the other players neutral protectees. You could gift your neutral race colony ships so he could expand and stuff. Although there would be no guarantee your neutral wouldn't turn on you and attack you. Part of the challange would be to protect them even though they might be attacking you.