[douglas]

You cannot designate an AI as neutral. Neutral AI players can only be created "randomly" by selecting the appropriate game setup option. They will be created Last and take the Last four start positions you have marked in your map. Their empire setup can only be controlled by the appropriate AI_General files, which I don't quite remember the location of, and I'm not on my home computer where I can check right now. To make them declare war on everyone, you will have to modify the AI_Politics and AI_Anger (not quite sure that's exactly correct) files that go along with the AI_General files.