Hello everyone, new user here, first time posting on this board. First of all just want to say thank you for to Alex and everyone in the modding community for the hundreds of hours of fun I've gotten from Star Sector. I've been playing vanilla since 0.7 (I think?) and only recently started trying out various mods to keep things fresh. Just started Nexerelin and blown away by how much it adds to the game. Hard to go back to playing vanilla now, its that good.
That being said, I'd like to ask a question about faction relations. I've always enjoyed setting up my own faction in vanilla and slowly building up my strength so as to one day challenge the core worlds, and after 20 hours of freelancing I started trying to do the same in my first Nexerelin run. Now I understand that this is meant to be challenging, but holy hell did I get stomped into the ground. Within 30 minutes 3 main factions had allied against me and declared war. I had little to no interaction with them, but I believe the random (?) diplomacy events pushed my score with the Persean League into the minus and they promptly went to war with me and brought the Dicktat and Tri-Techyon along for the ride. This promptly tanked what little profit I was making as three whole markets suddenly refused to trade with me. After wiping my single size 3 colony with 3 huge invasion fleets, I was left with a single fleet and no way to recover relations.
Again, I understand that this is probably designed to punishingly hard for go-it-your-own factions, as it seems to be designed towards picking and joining a faction. I was wondering, however, if there was any way to alter the settings for diplomatic events, either in game or through tampering with the mod files? Maybe cause diplomacy events to fire much less frequently, give much less lower score, or ideally have them not fire for the player faction? Again, just want to stress that this is a great mod. I really enjoy so many features that it adds but I find it hard to want to start again when the RNG could just decide to hit me with a couple of bad events, causing half the sector to rise up and squash me. Sorry for the long post and apologies if this has been already answered.