Posted by: Kurt
« on: Today at 10:04:20 AM »Diplomatically speaking you should get "credit" for being seen attacking an NPC's enemies. I.e. if the United States of Alice are at war with the Confederacy of Bob, and you see them fighting and attack Bob's ships, the USA should like you better. Maybe it could be set up as a large short-term boost (enough to make even a mild enemy temporarily not shoot at you for a few hours/days?) that wears off really quickly (or as soon as you next shoot at them) and a longer-term boost that wears off at the normal rate.
I'm suggesting this because in my current game I'm getting yelled at for being in an NPC's space while I'm fighting shoulder to shoulder with them to contain a pretty gnarly spoiler that, before I stepped in, was wrecking them. Not that I'm being entirely altruistic: I really don't want said spoiler to grow so big eating the NPC's wrecked fleet that I can't contain them later. But still, it'd be nice if they'd stop yelling at me to respect their property rights while I'm saving their bacon.
Personally, I'm a Confederacy of Bob guy.