how do you intereact with the sietches for diplomacy/trading

[General Jah]

Hello I am new to the game and I am puzzled on how exactly to interact with the Sietches? Are these just tied to the fremen faction or is there some other way to interact with them individually?

There appears to be some way for my faction to interact with them via agents if they are pillaged but after I attacked and cleared one I did not have the normal pillage option so I am just puzzled in general about how the game play works with these.

Thanks!

[Seleos]

If they are not hostile, you can trade water to them. There is a button there to initiate trading and then you can interact with it again to stop the trading if you want to save water. If you continue trading, relations just improve with time. Eventually they become willing to ally, and you can send in an agent to get a further benefit.

[Stardustfire]

when you want to interact with sietches you dont attack and pillage them, best way to not get friendly options with them.
when you trade water with them and reached 100% they still send out raids, but not in your direction. so they are indirect helpers. sending agents to allie with them only works when you own the sector the sietch is on, or at least a neighbouring sector i think.
Fremen can exploit allied sietches by building special buildings in them.

[General Jah]

weird I didn't see any sort of option to initiate trading. Is it something that pops up after you click on the sietch?

[Seleos]

Yes. There should be a simple button to push to begin trading. That's it. You just begin trading, and a portion of every turn's water generation will be traded to them and relations will begin to improve at that point.

[Stardustfire]

option is greyedout if you dont have enove water production surplus

[Dizzy Ioeuy]

So that building that pops up at 100% is ONLY fro Fremen? Hm. Should be grayed out then I would think for better UI experience.