You know what, its not such a bad idea,,,, but what i think would be even better.... have a race like say the Vorlon from Babylon five. They will keep to themselves but woe be told anyone who enters their territory!

It would be like the cherry on top at the end of a long hard game for the player to test out all their hard earn't tech and ships instead of just abandoning all that hard work when the challenge is gone, like you normally have to in this game.

If its moddable, somebody has probably already done it?

A super race that mostly stays out of it, just lets you play a normal game, then when the normal game runs its course and starts getting boring, you have something very interesting in reserve to sink your teeth into..... i would call that a BRILLIANT idea!

Mebe there can be like an emergency 'boring' button that you can press when you start getting bored in the game, to spawn a mega invasion event?

I like that idea too!

+1

Just like good ol' SimCity.

This is like 20 minutes of  programming time for a feature many would love.

Wanted this for a while actually , when I saw the potential they were using with personalities, the only problem is how do you stop them rolling over the galaxy? It'd need a new mechanic to limit growth, and also still show they are a threat to other races so they don't get in wars where they just wipe others out (often anyway). Perhaps they have a dying, leaving or ascending population, and a 'fear' or 'awe' mechanic where nobody declares war often, perhaps they just don't breed, or die anymore for that matter. Make a nice optional minor and a tough late game challenge, I know its a bit Moo2 ish, but by this point I doubt there are many of us left that even remember moo 2 all that well (Sad to say).

Maybe they interfere in others affairs from time to time, but also see the rest of the races as beneath them, except maybe the dread lords or late game races with certain techs.

Another twist on this is:

Extremely expensive colony ships but very strong colonies. Less micro for those that don't like micro but a small sphere of influence and a slower game.

Where you open up a rift, dimensional gate, or late game subspace technology for space travelling long distances, and have to face the inhabitants of that place.

That's an easy one to answer, because we can't include them all in one package on steam, and have to have small independent files dotted about everywhere. That's what kept me from making mods ultimately.

how you keep them from rolling over the galaxy...

make them a major race without colonization tech.

Also set them so that they are unwilling to trade any techs.

The bigger question is how to make them so they do not initiate war UNTIL someone crosses into "their" territory.

but also they should have territory

Set them up so they spawn on map size =x plus y worlds...   so in a small map they may start with four worlds..   on a huge map they may start with 20...

The idea of removing techs is probably not the best way to go. 

I know you could play with the capitol, but can you create a specialised capitol don't know. Can you start out with a pop of one don't know. You could start with no ships, or a shipyard. You could create a new ability with a penalty to population growth, and make them really unlikable as penalties. This would help keep them from rolling over the galaxy. You could make colony ships, and transports more expensive. You could make universal translator, and alliance techs more expensive. You could make them senthetic, and make the assembly project more expensive, but this might make this mod unplayable for the yor. Using the map editor for this is probably your best bet. Or put all your planets in the starting solar system. Start them out on extreme worlds would slow them down without being to much cheese.