I think this is already planned to some extent. Keep in mind that the beta 2 is only with the TEC. Somewhere along the line, we will be seeing the Vasari and the Advent. It would make sense that they have different personalities.

I think maybe P5yy meant between the various racial factions and not just the races themselves?

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Yea this is what I meant. Even with 10 TEC factions , there should be personality differences between them. This does not effect what they build and stuff and their attacking and defending strategies and missions but only their personality towards diplomacy and what makes them like you more or hate you more.

A simple system can be implemented. Where each faction has 1 of the following characteristics.

Aggressive Character - (klingon style)
Will like you if you attack his enemies. More likely to demand help and also offer help and backup in an alliance. Will start to hate you if you dont attack anyone or show aggression.

Peaceful Character - (federation style)
Will like you more if you dont attack anyone. More likely to expect nothing from an alliance. Values a player who holds many peace treaties. If races hate you , they are more likely to hate you. Peaceful races are just as good at killing you as aggressive races, but are just less incline unless they hate you for the above reasons.

Economical Character - ( Ferengi style)
Mostly likely to see the benefits of a trade agreement amongst other things. Most likely to be impartial to peace accords but interested in Trade Agreements. Lots of trade can increase love for you and possibly an alliance. Most likely to be swayed by donations of cash and if you have trade centers. In alliances , expect donations from them in times of war and requests for donations. Not giving donations could make them break alliances.

Backstabbing Character - ( Cadassian style)
Most likely to backstab you. Makes treaties just to attack players and they never last long enough. Will pester you with various treaties only to attack you later. very impartial to being backstabbed themselves. Dont care if you make an alliance with them , break it and attack them. Just because they have an alliance with you doesnt mean they are less likely to attack you.

Paranoid Character - ( Romulan style)
The further away your race from them , the more likely they will ally with you. Hate thy neighbour is usually their motto. More likely to start hating you if your empire is very close to theirs. As part of their paranoia , most likely to be appeased by an intelligence pact. Good to be allies with them if their empire is in a different solar system. They are often impartial to war and peace.

I generally play a mix of pacifist/trading players. I build up my position, then attack.

Believe me, its powerful and effective.

I like this idea myself, but I'm not sure if there's enough time to implement it (we're pretty much hitting the wall now).  It would be cool for an expansion, however.

From where do you get this skewed idea of pacifism? A pacifist is someone who would rather die then harming somebody, not somebody who just kills under some other label.



Huh? The USA's government is not pacifistic at all. It's a ruthless warmongering government.

A real life pacifist would be those activists who stand in front of bulldozers in Isreal (and get killed because of it).

Pacifists aren't really sane people, they're extremists in a certain way, but they wouldn't harm anyone consciously. So your example is way off.

i thort that they were only gonna give us 1 other race which is a bit of a let down and no new races in bets 3   

He's describing the in-game pacifist personality idea, not the actual pacifism philosophy.