Posted by: Father Tim
« on: June 02, 2010, 06:40:16 PM »Quote from: "Maximillian"
If so, what effect does [shooting] have on diplomacy?
Thanks,
Max
Each point of damage inflicted (on them) lowers their opinion of you by 1 point. In addition, every increment that they're sensors can see you doing something they consider unfriendly (shooting at them, scanning their ships, being in a system they consider 'thiers', being within X range of one of their colonies) lowers their opinion of you - though the amount is modified (increased) by their Racial Xenophobia and (decreased) by your Racial Diplomacy. I believe destroying a ship automatically drops you to hostile, if you would otherwise still be higher.
Though the wormhole aliens just want to kill and destroy all life as we know it, so you're pretty much hosed there, diplomacy-wise.
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