Neutral ships leaving their system

Aussie Gamer · #1 June 6th, 2001, 02:25 AM

NOT A BUG!
Neutrals are the same as every other empire except they can not colonise outside their system. They will attack outside the system.
They will also not colonise different planets that are not their type eg rock to ice.
they also have very limited tech levels.

Baron Munchausen · #2 June 6th, 2001, 02:41 AM

I saw this happen before in the past. The neutrals used to be quite active and often would send ships exploring all over the map. I complained about it many times and I thought it was fixed. It hasn't happened in any game I have played in months. You ought to send a savegame to MM with an explanation of what is going on. Maybe they can find something in your settings that explains it.

dominion · #3 June 6th, 2001, 03:01 AM

Neutrals also are blowing up neighboring planets in other systems too.

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Jubala · #4 June 6th, 2001, 04:12 AM

What's wrong with neutrals leaving their systems? They're just curious, that's all.

ZeroAdunn · #5 June 6th, 2001, 07:24 AM

I thought the official line on neutral empires were that they were just normal races who were unaware of warp points.

Thus if they left their system this would seem rather confusing.

rdouglass · #6 June 6th, 2001, 04:41 PM

I seem to remember something about them staying in their own system UNTIL they make First Contact - then they'll go outside their system.

Is my memory still OK????

BlueMage · #7 June 6th, 2001, 07:09 PM

Not a bug: every once and a while a neutral's ship's orders get changed via a third party intell operation. At least, every time I've seen this I've jumped into the neutral AI and seen an 'orders changed' message.