Ok well how about makin it an option?

See i am in a clan and we play alot of games like this, and we tend to treat Sins like we treat civ... we all start neutral and then through the course of the game alliance and wars are made and won and lost and so fourth, but just the OPTION to have a Neutral status would be nice, part of the satisfaction we get IS the actual "goin to war" if yer already at war there isn't quite the same satisfaction .... Knowing everyone is at war isn't quite as fun and mysterious as not knowing and then watching things unfold, Combat to us is the last and ultimate resort to bad relations, so you cant make that commitment if its already done from the get go.

i dunno it was just something that everyone definately felt needed to be in very much from the 1st night we played sins, the option at the very least would be nice. Perhaps 2 options

1 - all same faction players are cease fire at the start

2 - all faction players are cease fire at the start

I dunno bout everyone else but you would be makin a gaming clan that's stood together over a decade now and an old jedi master very happy .  Besides Brad owes us for the countless hours we spent explainin' to ppl how to forward ports in Demigod

/Obi

I would also like this change, or option. Whichever.

I would like this option as well

Yes, its a feature that has been much desired since day one. Especially as they have that ceasefire status which is pretty much neutral already in the game.

An option would make a lot of sense, players and AI of the same race should at least start at cease fire, after all why would the Advent be at war with the Advent? Aren't they a hive mind or something?

i usualy play with locked teams because open teams means there eather with you or aginst you, so it sucks, i would love an option like it

  I like this start with cease fire option idea very much. I agree, i think it would add a lot to the game, and make it feel different in the playing, which after so many sandboxed games is something i think is a very good thing.

I still hope, though at this late date perhaps unrealistically, that a campaign editor, and continuable games from one map to another would make this game "Untouchable". Still, the prospects of the devs doing this at this late date seem very unlikely.

But it would still be very cool to have in the game.

-Teal