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At this point, i don't see why we should kill aliens. As i've suggested in Pollution thread, i feel quite inconfortable with the whole "i'm a human parasite and i'm here to destroy the new planet" part of the game.

Can we have an option to turn off the aliens ? Military researches will be useless, but it's just a detail.
Is there a way to edit the files to do this with 027 version ?

Generating enemy bases is hardcoded now, but you can disable the attacks in the freeplay by editing the freeplay.lua script.

Good to know, thank you.

kovarex if the generation of enemy bases is hardcore now how will we get alien artifacts for lessercore game plays

Hardcoded. They're in the base code of the game and can't be disabled. That way even if you turn off the attacks you can still go assault the bases to get alien artifacts.