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Association of Development (Universal union)

Tier One:
-20% Cohesion loss from ethics
Member gain: Research Agreement, Trade, Commercial Pact, Migration Treaty cost 50% less Influence

Tier Two:
20 Intel Cap Between members
Member gain: 5%+ to Reserch speed, Unity, Resouce from Jobs

Tier Three:
+5 Stability for each colonies in Federation space
Member Gain: +50 Ship starting experience +50 Army starting experience +10% Ship build speed
President Gain: +1 Available envoys

Tier Four:
10% Planetary ascension effect
President: 1 + 0.5 per Member in federation influence

Tier Five:
5% trade value
Member Gain: 5% pop growth and assemhly speed
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Pact for Ciziten's rights (democratic federation)
Requiments: Democratic and xenophile

Tier One:
30 Intel cap between members
40% Cohesion loss from ethics
President: Gain 0.5 influence


Tier Two:
10% Pop growth and assembly speed
10% Pop upkeep
President Gain: 10% Diplomatic weight from pops

Tier Three:

5% Pops growth from agreements
5% Pop Upkeep
20% Pop growth from migatrions

Tier Four
10% Pop growth and assembly speed
Effects of Culture Workers are 50% stronger

Tier Five
10% Pop growth and assembly speed
5% Pop upkeep
Member can use Force Citizen rights cause beil (Victory effect: Loser is forced to join federation and switch to xenophile and switch to democratic goverment and give every species full citizen rights while members gain 200 influence)
Temportary 70% Cohesion loss from ethics for 1 year per new member joined from Force Citizen rights war

An idea I had for a long time, but I since I didn't know how to mod :b

Lackey Subject type:
A subject with higher autonomy than others, that can get military fundings from its overlord in naval capacity, technology and alloys, as a counterpart to that generous bonus, they are expected to be able to stand up on their own, their overlord doesn't defend them and they are forced to join all wars of their overlord. They get access to the Bring into the fold casus belli against empires that are not subjects to their overlord, when won they make the target empires vassals of the lackey overlord and giving the lackey some influence depending on the initial strenght of the targeted empire.

Lackeys can be helpful friends in time of needs as well as treacherous traitors, if they evercame to declare an independance war on their overlord, they could claim a right to the overlordship of the empires they brought into the fold.

End of the idea, Idk what could be their subject perks :b, same for all the numbers/acceptance modifiers stuff. Guess some AI personalities that normally don't like subjugation like hegemonic imperialists, would be less annoyed by that subject type?

Whatever, I believe it would compliment nicely your subservient tradition tree. Being a vassal doesn't mean you have to stay a weakling.

One thing that could be useful would be for federations to get additional flat cohesion bonuses (+100 in one time, I don't understand why we get just bonuses to cohesion progression, and not cohesion directly) for things like enacting and voting together on the same laws in the galactic community, winning a defensive war, agreeing on federation laws, breaking a rival federation etc...

Imo, Hegemonies shall be less good at that, since they are the least consensual federations of the bunch.

Do you think about create government overhaul working with this? YOur idea is very interesting, i think the political part of the game was left behind for much time. It woul be interesting to create different types of left-wing government and then debate in this soviet foederation wich is the best line

Shouldn't empires with the payback origin be able to access the Rebellious tradition tree without having to be subjugated by another empire?

Regarding espionage ops, perhaps there could be more "proactive" operations? Some I can think of includes:

- false flag events that:
- raises threat level of target empire to the galactic community;
- lets you steal resources (a one-off lump sum or % of production for x years) but have another
empire take the blame;
- give a unique CB to another empire to start a war with the target (as a follow up to Backstab)
or for the target to start one instead (as a follow up to Set a Trap)

- a resource-intensive version of Support Opposition (called Firestarter or something) that on
completion starts a situation for you to covertly stoke a civil war within the target empire.
Providing increasing amounts of resources per stage raises chances of success.

- a "federation breaker" operation to entice or cause a member of a rival federation to leave/get
kicked out and/or join you instead

Also had a thought for a "fleet exercise" situation that you could trigger via policies or something to provoke other empires.

Regarding overlord decrees (specifically demanding development one, have not tried the rest) it would be nice to have a dialog popup window on stage or situation completion that notes what effects has been achieved. On a side note, should development be changed to require minerals instead of alloys? I took it to mean developing new districts, buildings etc., apologies and disregard if I'm wrong.

Overlords could also have a decree demanding "alignment" requiring vassals to promote/adopt any one of the overlord's ethics. Providing increased Unity per stage increases chances of success. Similarly, a demand militarization or advancement to force vassals to increase fleet production or research for the situation's duration at teh cost of alloys and consumer goods respectively.

Regarding GalCom resolutions, perhaps new collective denouncements category targeting federations and overlords + vassals. Denounced federations face significantly reduced cohesion while overlords face significantly reduced loyalties for the duration in addition to whatever sanctions has passed.

As a balance for non-federated empires, I believe they should receive some buff modifiers in response to the perception of being increasingly threatened by federations when certain federation-centric resolutions are passed. For example, when being un-federated is banned, they should receive a percentage increase to naval capacity or military-related cost reductions as a counter to federal blocs.


Sorry for the wall of text, but I really do like where your mod is going!

Would love the ability to ask your vassals to build more fleets and armies.

Decree: Demand Military Buildup