Hi everyone,

I'm doing an Unfallen playthrough and reached Chapter 3.2 in their Questline, which requires me to reach 40 "positive diplomatic pressure" with another faction. 

I was under the impression that this means to max out the diplomatic relationship with another faction in my favor. I've done this using the Academy fleet to conquer my Riftborn neighbour. Still the quest does not trigger. Is this, because I'm at war with them? Does "positive" stand for "peaceful" instead of "in my favor"? 

In the diplomacy screen the Diplomatic pressure towards the Riftborn (War) is called " war pressure". I'm in peace/cold war with the other factions. In this case it is called "influence pressure". So my question is, what is positive diplomatic pressure and where can I find it? 

Thanks in advance for any help!

The Diplomatic Pressure does indeed refer to peacetime relations. You can increase this pressure by having a higher score than them, and through "border friction" in your favor. For most faction this means producing a lot of influene in border systems so thay your bubble pushes out the enemy's, but for Unfallen this means creating vines in their systems.

Good to know. I'll go entwine those science boys next door. :)

Oh and by the way: Loved your "How 2"-Streams! 

It might make AIs annoyed and they can retaliate with the very same thing.

You can also put diplomatic pressure on other players/AI by orbiting thier systems. You can be in a cold war state or at peace and it still puts pressure on them. You can also use this to block the output of strategic and luxury reasources.