Prestige event

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I recently got an event in which one of the choices would result in a loss of prestige.  I did a search on the strat, galciv2, and twilight or the arnor forums here for prestige and it came up blank. So I thought I'd come here.  I'd like to know why I'd choose or not choose prestige, so I guess that's a strat question as well as a definition question. 

I think the event gave me something like -5 or -10 to prestige, probably the former.  If it's anything like influence or diplomacy skill, I'm really leery of giving it up.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think prestige is how the rest of the galaxy thinks of you. If it is a loss of prestige then your standings with other civs will go down.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This one?
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Food For Thought

An extended drought that has resulted in food shortages on (Planet Name) is threatening to turn into an outright famine. Unless we do something immediately, mass starvation will ensue.

What should we do?

Good Option: Our people can not be allowed to starve. Spend whatever is necessary to prevent our citizens from dying. (-20 bc)

Neutral Option: We should be able to mooch enough from our galactic neighbors to get by. (-5% Prestige penalty)

Evil Option: Excellent, a team-building exercise! Make it known throughout our holdings that this famine is the result of outside interference from our enemies. (+10% Loyalty bonus, -100 Million people)
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My guess is standing with all races, since you're being a mooch.

I see no reason to pick that neutral choice in this event though. Good only costs you 20bc and evil gets you +10% loyalty and loss of 100m people (drop in the bucket on the home world).
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah that was the one.

I was confused whether that would be something like a 5% loss to diplomacy, but it sounds more like what you see in that "report" section of the foreign relations tab, where you see the +'s and -'s that make your standing with a particular race go up or down, like trade, alignment, etc.

Either way, it seemed like a very drastic result for doing something neutral, which you'd think would have the least result of all.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm 98% certain someone asked this before (recently), I fired up my game, got this as my first colonization event, and the only difference I noticed was in Influence in stats and graphs.

But I could be wrong.