Aside from Rhodri pumping me full of weapons tech with our anti-aggression agreement, I ran pretty solo that time around. So far that tactic hasn't been going very well for me; I got decimated in the other game and in this one I didn't get rekt just because both my neighbors were pretty cool.
I was wondering how you were funding yourself, Rhodri. That 15 economy you had for a while was looking pretty meager.