[Q]

Originally posted by capnq:
Neutrals also always spend 0 racial points, regardless of what starting points new players get from the Game Set-Up, so all their characteristics are Average, and they never have Advanced Traits.

That is not necessarily so: you can edit the neutral general.txt file and change it like an ordinary race. I have done that in my mod and it works perfectly. However what is hard coded is, that neutrals don't colonize outside their original system and only on rare exceptions send ships through warp points.