Relationships with other factions and belonging to something greater

[Larthienn]

Hi space wanderers,

I got a question. I managed to get one faction on the way to have relationship of 100, but it's still neutral.

1) Is there a way to make it friendly somehow? These Big Gifts are digging a huge hole in my saved materials and fuel x.x

2) Also, if there is a way of getting it to Friendly, is there a way to make an alliance with or become part of theirs?

Thank you in advance!

[jhughes]

I don't know if you can currently create an alliance except by editing the pregame options. I also dont see that even if you create an alliance, it currently has any real impact. I'm sure they plan to have alliances mean something.. But they don't seem to me to mean much now.

[Tinker.er]

In my opinion there is no real point to the factions themselves as they are.
You can currently trade with neutral factions, and they wont attack you.
Pirates seem to be the only faction that isn't neutral to every other faction also.

So if you are in a zone and a pirate ship is there, all other factions will help you attack them anyways. Making alliance not even needed.

I'm starting to find for the long game you need to just treat every faction as a supply of crew members and nothing more. Attack any ship that is weaker than yours, or any ship you can beat, friendly or not because you need the people.

The point of the gifts might actually be more to buy your way out of being attacked constantly after you kidnap enough of that factions people for your crew :P

[Larthienn]

nice input ErrorCode109, I'm gonna try that out :) need to design couple nice ships first :P and capture my first prisoners :)

[DownIncognito]

Is having a friendly / alliance relationship something on the roadmap? I'll admit, it is pretty disappointing to pay / trade your way to 100 status and nothing changes.

[bigphatmatt]

2 years later and I was bummed to discover the same thing. Love the game overall though!