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The intent of the rule is to create a game that is similar for each us to playing against the AI, except much, much smarter.

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No, you are free to set players as friend/neutral/enemy as you see fit. You can *be* a peaceful neighbor, you just can't say "Hi. I'm peaceful. You may use my stargates and date my daughters."

In a AI game everyone is set to enemy and battle orders are to attack everyone. This does remove some tricks you can play with minefields and orbitals and it introduces the real life concept of 'Friendly Fire' if your trying to work with someone.

And isn't setting someone to 'Friend' communicating something to them?