How to friend almost ANY faction without cheats!

This is a guide that I had the idea of making today (3/11/2020), because I just randomly did it and found out it worked.
Give it a try!

You Will Need:

To have unlocked Plate Armour Research
A high crafting level colonist / pawn
Ten times the amount of required resources to make Plate Armour with Gold
At least one neutral / slightly hostile faction within reasonable distance
An (electric / fueled) smithy

And a big enough brain.

Steps

1: Add a (Create Plate Armour) bill to the smithy.
2: Restrict the bill to only be worked on by your highest level crafter.
3: Set the material of the Armour to only be gold.
4: Make it repeat until you get a high quality product.
5: Wait until someone makes a high quality armour set.
6: Caravan at least 2 colonists with the armour to the neutral / slightly hostile settlement with the reason being "Give Gift" or "Trade"
7: When you get there and the trading menu appears, press the gift button in the bottom right and give them the Golden Plate Armour, pressing Accept.

And you're done.

How does this work?

The price of an item in trading depends on the quality, material and type of item it is.
Gold is expensive.
Plate Armour is a well made armour type if made right.
The finished product is high quality.
Combining these three facts gives us High-Quality Golden Armour.

The Golden Armour is expensive due to the gold and the high quality creation.
It is also taking the form of Armour, which is also a bit pricey.

The faction you traded with isn't happy with the gift because of the fact it's armour or made of gold or high quality, It's because it's expensive.

Getting something expensive for free is nice because it saved you all the work for trying to buy it yourself.

This causes the faction to be quite excited to get something expensive for free, and will thank you by becoming your ally, helping you in battle and trading with you more often.

Thank you for reading my guide, and be happy with your new friends!

[sgtklink]

I just let them raid me and release the prisoners I don't kill or recruit. I find myself running out of enemies pretty quickly.

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Gold plate armour is hella difficult to acquire? you know what is still expensive yet easy to make.
Crack... make a crack den, "donate" crack to the inner cities of neutral factions

[Djentinga]

Just send dead raiders and other unused objects using transport pods. Much more cost effective :)

[Ghostwish]

OOF. Yeah. Otheofoolo is right. Gold is /10. It's 170 parts for full plate, so, that's 1700 gold. And with Royalty going around taking gold as tribute, that amount just isn't feasible anymore.

[otheofoolo]

... ho3 are you getting so much gold, doesnt it take 100 steel to make full plate? and gold being a light metal means you need us 20 per steel. 2K gold is ..... a bit much for favor

[otheofoolo]

drop pods your training cloths ;3 you can fit thousands of silvers 3orth of clothing on a single pod. at max you need 2

[Ghostwish]

Gold armor. That idea is so stupid... it's brilliant. I love you now. Here's 50 human skin rugs.

[Mr. No One]

i just make endless amounts of dusters and pod them to nearby factions. i can be everyone's friend except the raiders. they must all be wiped from the planet

[NexionSE of the Cm.G.]

i just air drop my trash i dont need to everyone like surplus kittens and puppys or unwanted drugs, or the latest set of raiders.

[Auslander]

How do I airdrop?