How to be friends of a hostile faction?

[MiojoOfSpades]

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[Astasia]

Capture like 8-10 of their raiders then release them all at once. Each one bumps your relation up 15 points.

Or build a coms console and contact them, IIRC you can spend silver to improve your relationship. I haven't done that in a while and don't remember if it was added by a mod or not.

I don't believe you can ever improve relations with pirate factions, or any mod faction set to be always hostile.

[Quicksilver]

When they raid you, capture anyone you downed but didnt kill, then heal them up and release them (in prisoner options). You'll get rep for each one that exits the map safely.

Dont be friendly with everyone, or all your raids will be infestations and mechanoids.

[MiojoOfSpades]

Thanks

[阿杉杉杉杉m]

thanks

[Team Triss]

Pretty sure that only works for tribes, not pirate bands.

[Grishnerf]

only tribes and outlanders, pirates are always hostile.

[WoodSheep]

Does it matter if you kept prisoners and tried to recruit them, before finally releasing them? Does that affect any faction boost you might get?

[zekk_xellos]

It shouldn't Gibbeon. I usually send back prisoners when I grow tired of failing them at 0.5% chance for some years, and I remember still getting relation points for them.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by gibbeon:

Does it matter if you kept prisoners and tried to recruit them, before finally releasing them? Does that affect any faction boost you might get?

Nope. Nothing has any effect on it AFAIK, if they have left the map at all you get the full 15 points. You can torture them for years, harvest all their non-vital parts, pretty sure it doesn't matter. That may change at some point, or perhaps the harvesting organs already has since I haven't done it in a while.

[Knight9910]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Capture like 8-10 of their raiders then release them all at once. Each one bumps your relation up 15 points.

Or build a coms console and contact them, IIRC you can spend silver to improve your relationship. I haven't done that in a while and don't remember if it was added by a mod or not.

I don't believe you can ever improve relations with pirate factions, or any mod faction set to be always hostile.

Releasing the raiders is mostly for hostile tribes and whatnot. The always-hostile pirate factions don't seem to care - you might as well just execute them unless you think you can recruit them.

Also, you can use the comm console to bribe factions, but only if they're not hostile yet. If they are hostile they'll just cuss you out and hang up.