A little disappointed...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I think it is quite close to Sci-Fi canon to treat aliens as a thread and go to the war. Every time humans make first contact, some sort of war happens. AFAIK, only Vulcans did not try to enslave/wipeout us. Well, may be Centurians too, but Minbari rectified it

a vicious, space-traveling horde has more chance of stopping at the asteriod belt than earth. and if they want to get rid of us, they'd probably pick a worthless asteriod and drop it down the gravity well. that is, if the're 'rational'. being particularly vicious is the only reason i can think of for them to attack us.

[Loser]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
a vicious, space-traveling horde has more chance of stopping at the asteriod belt than earth. and if they want to get rid of us, they'd probably pick a worthless asteriod and drop it down the gravity well.

'Drop' is not quite an accurate description. 'Shove' would do better.

[Jarhead0331]

Aliens always attack on TV because if they didn't it would be boring to watch...come on man...this is a game where there is much more to explore than just war...there should be races out there in the game that are peaceful and not prone to waging war...there should also be races out there that are not too good at waging it either...they all seem to kick major butt...

[Gryphin]

It was my experiance that
Most of the AI were designed to be the best they could be.
Some are much more peace oriented than most. I can think of 3. I am not going to name them so I don't spoil it for anyone else.

[The FryeR K]

Jarhead increase your political savvy, for some reason this seems to make other races more peaceable towards you.

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Jarhead0331:
Aliens always attack on TV because if they didn't it would be boring to watch...come on man...this is a game where there is much more to explore than just war...there should be races out there in the game that are peaceful and not prone to waging war...there should also be races out there that are not too good at waging it either...they all seem to kick major butt...

If you want some peaceful races try some of this list (from the TDM).

EEE (not the standard, is too easy to defeat!)
Praetorians
Vaxin
EA

Think all of them are very peaceful (although the Vaxin and EA sometimes could be aggressive too).

But man, I'm f***k genocidal and like to be at war against all of them and crush every planet... then, never felt love for those stupid guys!

[Jarhead0331]

You see...I would like to wage war too, but not until I've had a chance to prepare for it for a bit...I usually play large cluster maps, and I always make first contact before I've expanded outside of my initial cluster...I usually make first contact with two races one from each cluser that is adjacent to mine...after first contact they immediately start hostilities making it impossible to get anywhere...

Maybe there is something I'm doing wrong in my initial game settings...like maybe I'm inadvertantly giving the computer players some kind of bonus...

Semper Fi