[Arkcon]

Originally posted by mottlee:
Yup, the full neut....IF you gift another planet to them you can get them to build in another system to help make them larger

So that should be the most important plan when you play as a neutral. Get on an alien race's good side, and trade planets. You have to balance that with building up your system defence. It's tough, when you surounded by a suspicious race like the Xiati, and a violent race like the Rage.

I did get the Xiati to trade any comm channel, and find out about the Borarboa States. And I got the Borarbora States to surrender to me. So I had two systems -- but that really was it.

I built a ringworld and a sphereworld, and filled them with Intel facilities. I could just exactly match the Intel power of the Xiati who controlled the rest of the galaxy -- again a perfect stalemate.

I put multiple storms over each planet, some obscuring and some damaging. Huge Xiati fleets entered, lost their sensor ship, and combat wouldn't start. Unless I entered, damaged that ship, and began combat. Then after resoution, the Xiati would just sit there.