Impossible to gain influence with skylaxians

[Orelius]

In one of my games, I had a federation of the skylaxians, peltians, and andors against an evuck fear empire, which was taking far too long to go down.  For some reason, the skylaxians were stuck at -3 influence, and any action I could do (bribe, dispatches) would not raise the influence.  Is this an intentional consequence for doing too many terrorist activities?

[BisonMD]

I don't think this is intentional, I've run into a bug where certain values get 'stuck' for the rest of the game and can't be changed by any action. The most notable was when a planet's population got stuck. They were the only ones outside of the federation and had ~14 million power of ships in orbit around them with constant Thoraxian raids, but they couldn't go down. I was able to eventually win by getting them into the Federation, but it was a close call. The sheer amount of ships was starting to grind the simulation to a halt.