Social relationships and stuff would be easier if I could send little game diplomacy style messages and stuff to people.
"To the hallowed [insert name], may your halls be warm and larder full. The Machine Lord wishes to change stance to: friendly"
And then they just send back
I tried setting up a game with all races, thinking I could get a screenshot of all of the different relations icons, but it turns out I'd need to do it a bunch of times to get them all and my interest does not run that deep.