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How do you mod a race to have the "historic animosity" thing (I think there's also one called "historic friendship, but I forget which race has it) with another race. I looked at the XMLs, but there seems to be no difference between the Torians and Drengin and, say, Humans and Drengin. Is it hardcoded or something?
I think that's actually based on the, ah, history of the relations. I think you can set it at the start of the game in the ai settings, but in game in seems to build up over time.
Jonnan
If they're declared *At War* straight from the setting phase, the "prefs.ini" file will list these two race slots as having such relation status permanently -- UNLESS, another game modifies both the ID numbers and their corresponding status.
I figured this out while i was developping X-Worlds as i wanted to maintain some friendly or other status between the Humanity races or_and their 'natural' enemies - any of the Aliens.
Example; The Interceptors needed to be Close enough to the Magnetic as to be very near Alliance (once the tech is shared by them & activity provided the opportunity for the player to offer it to an AI... given a game has initialized them to play with, btw) BUT, both also had to be AT War against the Sectoids --- from first game starting turn.
Once, you quit or save such games, the configuration files **presume** the relation status between race slots is somehow 'static'. If the opponents structure and choices remain as is.
Zyxpsylon: Although this information is useful, it is not exactly what I was originally looking for. What I am talking about is the relations penalty that appears on the foreign policy screen. As far as I know, it only exisis between Torians and Drengin, and the Iconians and Yor.
@Scoutdog: You, as the player, can gain either "Historic Friendship" if you maintain friendly relations with another race for I believe 5 game years (it could be 3, which I understand is a big difference, but its been a while so...)
If you declare war on another race, make peace, and come back and declare war again, eventually, your reputation/credibility will be so damaged that you will have "Historic Animosity"
The Torian and Iconians have this toward the Drengin and Yor respectively
Edit: As for modding: It can't be done. The Diplomatic relations (what causes the various + or -) are hardcoded. You can set their overall attitude, but thats it. Sorry.
True, i was refering to general starting attitude between two given races... as with ingame variations of relations, it IS the activities which impacts whatever +/- effects are calculated to indicate overall status of two races in specific turns. Highly variable numbers -- created during a game but not kept in some external xml or ini files for modding purposes.
In what it probably my single most idiotic mistake ever, I got the name of what I was looking for completyely wrong. It is actually called "lingering racial grudge" not "historic animosity." 
Hate is an emotion. Fighting an enemy (for any good or bad reasons, btw) in a declared or deserved war is one of many GC2 gameplay conditions - some reality aside, of course.
Through some experiments and liberal use of cheats, I figured it out: The race that has raceID: 4 in the raceconfig.xml will always have a problem with the race that has raceID: 1, and raceID: 5 will never get along very well with raceID: 9. They will have a permanent diplo penalty called "lingering racial grudge" when dealing with each other, like the Torians and Drengin or Iconians/Yor.
ah cool, that is a good find for modders/scenario makers; karma coming your way Scoutdog
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