If players continuously attack a certain race, such as the Banu, could that prompt a race war between us?asked by Admiral Barker
TL;DRAttacking a race probably won't cause a simulated race war, but organization reputation scores would make that race hostile toward the attackers, and developers acting as game masters might stir up border troubles.
Probably not, we aren't going to have "meta simulation " programming on a race basis. We're definitely going to have a reputation score for organisations, so obviously the UEE and the Banu, Xi'An etc will all have their own ones. So individuals or groups that attack another organisation (even as large as races) will prompt an uneasy or hostile relationship with them, so maybe next time they're in the same space they could be attacked rather than friendly. I wouldn't necessarily say that would have an effect on the UEE as for the most part I doubt players will be doing these things on their behalf, but as individuals or groups it'd certainly prompt a response from the Banu, any maybe even the UEE. If we watch it, once the universe is live, we'll be game-mastering the universe so potentially we could flare up some border troubles as a result of what players are doing. So not generated by our simulation, but perhaps by us game masters.