Permanently hostile empire.

[Bosh]

I've just noticed that if I start the game with a scenario that uses modded factions or races the game starts with the empire permanently hostile, with no way to increase their goodwill, similar to pirates. I cannot set their goodwill with devmode or by doing quests that should increase it or by any other means. Is anyone else having this problem?

[MarsMond]

The empire has an entry of permanentEnemyToEveryoneExcept, which would need to be changed with added factions. For modders, seems

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Patch>
  <Operation Class="PatchOperationAdd">
    <xpath>/Defs/FactionDef[defName="Empire"]/permanentEnemyToEveryoneExcept</xpath>
    <value>
      <li>Your_Factions_here</li>
    </value>
  </Operation>
</Patch>

should be enough to patch that for the factions you want to be on neutral terms otherwise.