You bet! In fact, some of them should be primitives with a tech level of zero: no discoveries, and no idea how to make any either.
It'd also be nice if warp drive was a discovery you had to make -- that way you could give it to neutrals near your rivals and suddenly they're a problem. Though I guess that eliminates the only distinction between neutral and AI-controlled player. Hmm. Maybe eliminate that distinction and instead have a score for expansiveness? Empires with a score of zero wouldn't expand beyond their home system, but could at least send warp ships against their enemies' home planets in retaliation.
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Originally posted by SirDarwin:
Yes seeing more neutral little empires spread through out the galaxy would defenitly be cool, providing a variable in the settings file for the percentage of systems with life would be a nice touch.