Posted by: ZimRathbone
« on: October 16, 2013, 08:16:16 PM »As far as I know once you have failed with communication you can never make contact. This will always happen with the Spoiler races. I didn't think that the diplomatic team score impacted the chance of making contact.
You can sometimes achieve communications with spoilers, if you manage to not engage in combat when you discover them and are very lucky with initial communications rolls. In my current game I have comms with the Pre race, however it never really got me anything even with a diplo team working on them to get to Trade treaty.
Shortly after the trade treaty was achieved I ran into them in another system with my planetary explorers and they quickly took offence and blew my ships away - relations then returned to the default status of communications via fusion warheads