Can someone explain the political value settings?

I would like to know how to restrict wars or at least make relations worsen with agressive powers much slower than present.

Will or is there an option for the A.I to seek peace when it's involved in too many wars?

These are the basic personalities of the stock AIs in the mod:

Friendly:
Abbidon, EEE, Phong

Neutral/Moderate:
Cue Cappa, Drushocka, Norak, Terran, Ukra'Tal

Aggressive:
Jraenar, Sithrak, Xi'Chung

Xenophobic:
Amon'krie, Sergetti, Xiati

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Here is a repost from SE.net on AI Anger in the mod:

I know a number of you wonder about the AI's moods are generated. Here is it how it typically works...

The AI actually doesn't remember things in terms of anger, but rather in terms of severity. The severity of events/actions are translated into an anger value against the other players each turn. An event/action that is greater in severity will reside in the AI's turn-to-turn memory for a longer duration than events that are less severe. They will also have a greater effect on the anger level.

There are a number of factors that are considered by the AI in order to generate their anger level:

Log Events
- There are no events that reduce anger
- Bad events like combat or sabotage: +Anger

Messages
- Good messages like accept request or treaty: -Anger
- Bad messages like declaring war: +Anger

Political state
- War: +Anger
- Known: +Anger or -Anger depending on type of AI
- Treaty: -Anger
I know a number of you wonder about the AI's moods are generated. Here is it how it typically works:

The AI actually doesn't remember things in terms of anger, but rather in terms of severity. The severity of events/actions are translated into an anger value against the other players each turn. An event/action that is greater in severity will reside in the AI's turn-to-turn memory for a longer duration than events that are less severe. They will also have a greater effect on the anger level.

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There's some indirect modifiers.

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I would to know where they are? I think it does the A.I no favours when they are fighting wars on 10 fronts like the aggressive races do.The A.I should try to play like a human and attack piecemeal,they would get more success.

Some empires will become increasingly angry over time because you may be friendly with their enemies. The degree of this effect depends somewhat on the AI's personality.

Another drift factor is that the AI tends to remembered negative events for longer periods of time.

Although some of this has been changed with the upcoming v1.12. The main difference is the introduction of "target priorities" for the AI players. Each AI now assigns a priority to the other empires or alliances, based on political status, proximity to each other, and relative empire strength. The typical result is that an AI will either target weaker players that are nearby or stronger players that is has poor relations with. Players of approximately equal strength and moderate relations are kept at the status quo. The general goal is to focus the AI's aggression against fewer empires at a time. It also mellows out the above mentioned effect, by focusing more on relations with their critical targets as opposed to all other relations.

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In theory, the personality group field in the [RaceName]_AI_General is supposed to be used by the game setup routine to ensure a mix of personality types as described by the values in settings.txt (the random personality group values). The values are never reference in the scripts and so have absolutely no effect on AI behaviour or their script files.

However, in the AI scripts, there is a group of constants that are used prescribed for the AI's category, which is akin to the idea of the personality groups described above. Recently in the Balance Mod, I did match the constants for the AI's category to the personality group as follows:

1 - Peaceful
2 - Neutral/Moderate
3 - Aggressive
4 - Xenophobic

If the random personality group types are indeed working (which appears not to be the case) then you should get a distribution of AI players that is similar to the chance values in settings.txt for each category/personality.

So in short, the only real way to influence a custom race's behaviour is to edit a [RaceName]_Main_Script file, adjusting the various settings that are contained in that file. Speaking specifically about BM AI, the AI category is the most broad modifier for behaviour, while there's a slew of booleans that control specific ship type usage and a bunch of political values that form the basis of AI diplomatic discussions. You may want to wait about a week or so for the v1.12 files, as the incorporation of alliance diplomacy has brought on a lot of changes to these files.

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It doesn't. Having a treaty with an enemy of the other player is what leads to hostility - which I would classify a normal reaction. If you have a treaty with one of their friends, then that will make them less angry.

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Why do empires send you messages to break bonds with a so called hated enemy that the empire has no relations with.If that empire was a war I could understand,but it is'nt.

A non-treaty empire is treated as an enemy. I can revise it though to just check for war status.

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Mmm... but still, it's perfectly possible to go have a big scuffle with another empire without declaring war. Unless you have very fast War Declarations... ah well it's still more likely that a zero-treaty empire isn't in combat.

And yes, trying to be friends with damn well everyone is usually worthy of distrust and hostility. Sure it's a nice ideal and works well between individuals, but when so much is at stake, trying to trade with everyone while they fight each other shouldn't go down well - you (from their perspective) just might be sitting out and milking them all to take everything over at the end~

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In real life, having treaties or being friendly with a nation (empire) that others do not like will make them more hostile towards you. So I think the game is pretty accurate on this. My question is are some AI races predisposed to hate/like other AI races? By the game's description, the Eee and Druschocka should be hostile towards one another. I am looking for some fairly divisive lines in the game, so if you are at war with the Xiati, you can establish a helpful relationship with say the Norak.

"We are the Vahl, resistance is...welcomed"

This is all too black and white. If you compare how nation states relate to each other...there are so many shades of gray. Political clout, economic clout, military clout and even idologicial stance all factor in on how other nation states relate to each other. If you are a heavy hitter in one or more of those areas....the other nation states are a lot more tolerant of you. I've only been playing SEV for a short while...but the AI seems VERY suspect in this area...and while the various mods (I'm currently playing BM 1.13) have done a good job of dealing with other AI issues...this seems to be one that is tougher to fix/improve.