[Atrocities]

One of the things that I would love to see for Space Empires V is the race contact system improved.

I feel that if "discovering" a race and having full contact with it before they open com channels is not something that I like.

How can I explain this. Lets say two ships from differant races meet in a neutral system and combat occurs, NO information regarding the victor should be gain except for the knowledge that there is another race out their. On the Political screen a shaded out figure with say a Question mark would then be vissable.

The way to establish contact would be to send Messages, and attempt to find their homeworld.

Now if a race has full scanners and they survive the combat, then the sensor information can be used to build a racial profile. BUT communications must be established before any treaty offers can become available.

The reason for this is for anaminity. Remember in DS9 where ships were being lost in the Gama Quadrant, and it took many months before the other races knew about the Dominion and that it was them that who destroyed thier ships. Even after they knew of them it took several more months to open a dialog. They had no intel on them except to that they exsisted and basically what they looked like, but nothing else.

Having a system like this increases the need for scanners, intel, and diplomacy.