I wonder

[wingte]

I am in a new game and I have run into that elusive race again. The name is Durshocka and their ships look like a gas cloud. The racial discription says they are a cilicate race and excel at energy research.
If I try to move through a sector they are in,, I have to decide wheather to fight or not to fight.
If I chose not to fight,, I cannot go through the space, but they can get through a space I am in.

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Wingte

[General Hawkwing]

Wingte, I believe this is the empire with the green ships. I have never had a problem like this with them or any other race. Reading the race file gives no reason for them to be able to slip past your forces without combat being engaged. Have you intercepted a ship of theirs in space with similiar results? My guess is that you have a unique bug on your hands.

[Master Belisarius]

I saw something like that, when I had some ships over a warp point, BUT, inside a nebulae system.
I have assumed that because I can not see the enemy ships, into a nebulae system, then my ships were unable to detect the ship and fight...

[wingte]

To Hawkwing,, yes the ships are green. They look like a green cloud.

Belruse,, I have had it happen in regular and nebula cloud systems.
It only seems to happen at warp points. When they are on a warp point,, I cannot pass them without a fight even when I have managed to get them to agree to a non-aggression pact. But if I am on the warp point even during a declared war, they seem to be able to slip past me. They are always visable on the screen ,, but,, you do have to look close since they sort'a look like some of the "storm" pictures.

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Wingte

[General Hawkwing]

What technology level is this at? I start all games at low tech, so I have not seen all the tech availiable in the demo. Is there a higher technology available in the demo (like cloaking) that would let them slip past without engaging in combat?

[Master Belisarius]

Nope, the cloak tech is not available in the demo...

[Fionn]

Cloaking's not available as a researchable technology but could the race have something like it as an undocumented special ability?

Sounds more like a bug to me but it might not be - the bug might actually be in not having something about a natural stealth ability in their description.