Okay, this bites

[Stone-D]

What exactly are the parameters for hostility? I've known about the mine problem for ages - this is no longer an issue for me though with my current game as I've Banned the use of mines throughout known space. Besides, it makes battles more interesting as those ships that were kitted with minelayers don't just drift along presenting their rear ends to your entire weapons array. And it doesn't clog up your cargo hold with crud.

[Phoenix-D]

Hostility as of 1.08:

Hitting any ship/base/fighter/mine/etc of that race with any weapon or your ship. (the mine problem is that you are a Terran ship- so anything you do to hurt yourself is seen as hurting a terran ship..so they shoot you. heh)

Carrying illegal cargo.

As far as I know, that's it. Normally, after a while with none of these a race will go non-hostile.

[Stone-D]

No illegals. I've reduced the likelihood of their appearing to 1 percent and I dump them when I find them. The red text is annoying.

[Stone-D]

Hmmmm. Never seen friendly Fazrah/Amikron/Xiati. Ever, even from unmodded gameplay. Can you verify this?

[dominictus]

No kidding about the hostility.

What I did on several occasions which annoyed me was crash into a satellite by a starbase. I'd come cruising in at top speed and not see it until I was on top of it. And of course then the starbase starts firing...

Dominictus

[Stone-D]

Damn, need sleep. Posted in wrong thread.

[ December 01, 2003, 16:00: Message edited by: Stone-D ]

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Stone-D:
Hmmmm. Never seen friendly Fazrah/Amikron/Xiati. Ever, even from unmodded gameplay. Can you verify this?

This is, er, for races that don't hate you by default. Those races and the pirates will always try to kill you.