Rhons' Personal Faction Relations, relatively balanced and lore-friendly.
Previous images have been removed so they can be updated with new values.
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A brief run-down of these new partially-static Faction Relations:
- Loners are forever neutral with Duty (200), Freedom (500), Ecologists (500); forever hostile with Military and Bandits (both -4000)
- Duty is forever neutral with Loners (200), Ecologists (800); forever hostile with Bandits
- Clear Sky is forever hostile with Military and Bandits
- Freedom is forever neutral with Loners (500); forever hostile with Military
- Ecologists are forever allies with the Military (4000); forever neutral with Loners (500) and Duty (800); forever hostile with Bandits
- Mercenaries are forever hostile with the Military
- Military is hostile to all except Duty (dynamic) and Ecologists (4000)
- Bandits are hostile to all except Freedom (dynamic) and Mercenaries (dynamic)
- The Monolith makes no friends outside of their own
- Any relationship not mentioned is considered dynamic, like Duty vs. Mercenaries or Clear Sky vs. Freedom
Typical playthroughs will likely to see the two sides emerge, with Clear Sky being a wildcard and Loners harassed by both Military and Bandits.
May 19, 2022: Updated add-on so that starting relations are instant instead of needing a few deaths to affect relations. Freedom and Clear Sky are now at -4000 instead of -2000 to encourage a cease fire quicker. Fixed files by putting scripts into gamedata instead of outside.
September 30, 2022: Revamped initial starting relations, see chart above.
Maybe a military and loners that are mutually neutral (dynamic)?
Probably could be edited for that, but for lore, military is supposed to eject trespassers (loners, among others)
omfg I forgot to actually add the Faction Relations script. Just added now.
Very nice work. It allows for enough dynamic-ness to keep things somewhat unpredictable but it's lore-friendly enough to avoid stupid situations like military buddying up with bandits.
How does this affect the Player relation with the different factions? I'm pretty sure I'm using an older mod where I don't see any (player related) changes to relations with factions.
Much like vanilla Goodwill, the player’s relations uses their Faction as a basis for relations. Any dynamic Factions gives you a chance to improve goodwill to remain neutral/friends longer should things turn south, possibly even sparing you from being immediately attacked during war if your goodwill exceeds 1000+ bonus relations. Any permanently hostile Factions towards your own will be impossible to make neutral.
I am planning an idea where changing Factions does not reset goodwill, although no estimated time of delivery for that yet.
Tested this for a few hours and it works great, thanks.