well you have to keep giving them stuff until the alliance option pops up on the trade window. The option will pop up when your relationship with them goes from Friendly to "Close".

Im about convinced though that it is 99.999% impossible to form an alliance with a race unless you are a powerful player in the galaxy.


In the game im currently playing..im at the bottom of the totem poll. The Torians are a strong race in this game.. they are the same alignment as me, and have a friendly status with me as well. Recently.. they just upped and said they were attacking the Drengin for me (the Drengin were at War with me).. i figured this means they are ripe for an alliance.

So i saved my game.. and then tried to get them to form an alliance with me. 2 planets, 5 techs, and 25,000bc later..the option still wasnt available.

makes no sense. Normally I can get races to ally with me fairly easily.. but im trying something different this time and because of that im one of the weaker races. So that is the only thing I can think of.. it must be because im not powerful.