Sounds like a lot of hard work to me... I think I'd prefer to have everyone else as my enemy. Why
can't we all just (not) get along?
Mind you, there was a thread a while back about modding the game so that two empires exist in a symbiotic state.
I can't really remember the details, but one suggestion I think one empire controlled all the ships and units, but had no resource production or construction.
The other empire handled all the planets and diplomacy and could build ships, but handed them over to the military as soon as they were built. They have to keep gifting resources to the fleet to pay the maintenance.
It looked quite cool, and had numerous other advantages over normal play. I think the thread might have been titled "sybiosis", if anyone fancies running a search.
