[Suicide Junkie]

Ship-only empires definitely have to be allowed to continue playing, and a component to allow communications with other races would be very useful. Sounds like a good use for the Palace Ability. A 1MT component that only fits on baseships, and makes the ship act like a planet in terms of contact/comm/relations.
AIs would still be unable to make good use of the component...
Perhaps it would just be best to allow ships to maintain contact with other races, and leave it at that.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 12 August 2001).]