[Glyn]

According To SEIV Rules Of Engagement, you always attack on first encounters!


It doesn’t really matter what do. If you plan to trade then at some point your races will give away the locations of their home systems. Your just passing the problem to the next contact.


The best solution I can think of is to behave as if your race has many worlds colonized. Offer to the other race to relay diplomatic messages and setup trade between one of your races systems, if the other captains agrees to do the same.