neutral player

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by mottlee:
Have any of you in playing a solo game taken over a Neutral race (keeping yours of course) and try to build them as you would your own? You will have the draw backs of not being able to warp but that is some of the chalenge

I did this, and was able to warp.

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No, you didn't. Neutral races are prevented from warping by the game code. There is some discussion whether there have been some wierd exceptions to this from time to time, but it wouldn't be something consistant and repeatable for your game.

Most likely what happened is you took over an AI race you thought was a neutral. For example if you notice during a game if someone uses PPP and a planet splits off and declares it's independance, the empire will often look like a neutral. Typically it will get the single color neutral flag, but the race pic will be like it's parent race and the empire name will usually be named after the system the planet is in. Even though these empries have a single color "neutral" flag, they are not neutrals and can warp and expand their empire normally.

Geoschmo

[ September 19, 2003, 14:39: Message edited by: geoschmo ]