Diplomacy

Diplomacy
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Skill Tree	Social
Skill Tier	Advanced (2)
Primary Utility	Ground Combat

Diplomacy is an Advanced Social Skill. It allows the Spacefarer to temporarily compel a hostile NPC that is at or below their level to stop fighting.

Ranks

Rank	Challenge	Bonuses
1	Successfully use Diplomacy on 5 different people.	You can force a target NPC at or below your level to stop fighting for a while.
2	Successfully use Diplomacy on 25 different people.	You can force a target NPC up to 10 levels higher than you to stop fighting for a while.
3	Successfully use Diplomacy on 50 different people.	You can force a target NPC up to 20 levels higher than you to stop fighting for a while.
4	N/A	You can force target NPC's to permanently stop fighting (unless they're attacked again.)

Progression and Strategy

Diplomacy isn't hard to level as long as the player uses the ability often.

There are two schools of thought with diplomacy: avoid combat entirely, or divide and conquer. Avoiding combat means using diplomacy, and then running away. Divide and conquer is using diplomacy on certain enemies, killing their compatriots, and then turning around and killing the enemies that the player used Diplomacy on. Both can be viable strategies. The only issue is the level cap, the player will often be unable to use Diplomacy on the strongest enemy of the bunch. Diplomacy also has a cooldown, so it may not be too useful against very large groups of enemies. Even so, Diplomacy can be an interesting alternative (or supplement!) to the "Shoot-em-up" playstyle.