It looks like border friction values can grow to unintentional high values, and can also swing extraordinarily.

Case: I get a diplomatic demand and go check the friction: The friction reads: from score diff +0.8; from border friction -28.5; from diplomatic choices -0.5. I proceeded to build some influence generating improvements in the two systems I had that was touching his influence zones and I proceeded to kill the large opposing fleet (cold war status).

A few turns later after all my fixer were complete, I go check influence again. And now the friction reads:  ... from border friction +57,2; ... I didn’t note down the score diff and the diplomatic choices diff because they were still really small.

So, just a swing of 85.6 points in border friction in something like 10 turns.

The border friction values were that high I was getting diplomatic demands just 10 turns after the last one. (I usually don’t care to check for they appear so rarely, but I did check, because it was so recent I got the last one.) After the change, I could make diplomatic demands every 10 turns from my opponent.

At the same time, I don’t think I saw diplomatic choice pressure values exceed 3 in the entire game. They were often less than 1.

To me the above-mentioned swings seems unintentional, and undesired. High values like -28 and +57 makes demands happen way too often, and diplomatic choices becomes irrelevant when they are that much smaller. Ok so this only happened towards the end game, but still. Should not happen, imo.

More details:

Entire game played from start to finish last weekend using Version 1.2.0. Single player, game difficulty medium, galaxy size medium. I played Sophons going for Science victory and got it on turn 167. The border friction issue was with my nearest neighbor The Families, was up on me in points most of the game, but I got the win easily. The Families had the high values on me around turn 140, I got my high values around turn 150.

Hi,

Thanks for the report, this is indeed not intended, we'll look into it (values should be capped to not exceed the "from Covered Systems" pressure modifier).

Best,