Hi!
It seems that if you start the game with "friendly" relations to someone, you can also talk to him from the start.

BR, Iztok

that solved my problem, thank you two.
every relation better than hostile makes me see my opponents, so i can only choose between hostile, in war or unknown.
is there a possibility to make ai more aggressiv?
if i choose hostile ( i dont know if hostile is the word you read, i dont play the english version) relation to an ai opponent, is he hostile only to me or to everyone?

another question: if i start a new game and come to the screen where i choose my race, all races' political party is federalists (economic bonus). then i choose e.g. the drengin, set their party to warparty, go to the next screen to save it and then two screens back to choose another race. now the drengins have the warparty. but if i choose adequate parties for all the races, the program always forgets something, without any pattern. sometimes it works, sometimes not. now: is it important to give parties to the ai races or do they choose them for themselves? and why doesnt the program save my settings?
i hope this was understandable and thank you for reading

greeting
ds

i am playing galciv2 dread lords and i do not find any edit-your-opponent option.
maybe you could exactly describe where i find it ( iam sorry for beeing blind) or just tell me that it doesnt exist in dl (what i expect ).

thx
ds

thanks for the answer.

but still i dont know if i should give political parties ( and maybe skills?) to my opponents and why the program doesnt save my settings. maybe someone could answer this question.

have a good time
ds

Changing parties on races in DL is ineffective on the AI--they'll pick their own either way.