Galactic Community++ Mod
Galactic Community++ Mod
I have been extremely excited about the galactic community from day one, i love the feature and i try to achieve a certain political state every game. One of my favourite quotes sums it up perfectly:
“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.â€
― Terry Pratchett, Mort
While it has been very fun so far, i have two main issues with this system.
- A large part of the political power stems from fleet power and by the time my fleet is big enough to have a say in the galactic community, the buffs to my empire are nice to have and it might be fun to debuff some of the other empires, but it doesn’t really feel as if you are the de facto all mighty ruler of the galaxy, because:
- The senate can be sooooo slow, which hurts if you are powerful (because you can’t push those resolutions fast enough) and makes it – in my opinion – too easy to stall if you are not (because you can just keep proposing sanctions to avoid the resolutions you don’t want to pass)
There are mods that speed up the senate, some seem to powerful while others are just right (for my taste), however none of them expand on the available resolutions so i decided to make my own.
Purpose
Implementation Status
Buff the galactic community, provide more ways to specialise your empire and to harm other empires by passing resolutions that overall have a negative effect on their empire.
Done
Right now they just buff numbers (e.g. 140 % diplo weight economy instead of 100 %) which is strong but doesn’t feel exciting
To be done, suggestions welcome
Buff the sanctions and make abiding the galactic law more important
Done
Make it easer for the galactic council to win votes even if outnumbered
Done
Speed up the pace of the galactic community without overdoing it, by only changing the voting time the immediate impact is reduced and emergency resolutions by the galactic council are buffed (since they skip the recession and go straight tot he voting phase)
Done
Make use of the faster pace in which resolutions are passed, provide more means to specialise your empire in correlation to galactic law
To be done
Accomodate the overall faster pace
Done
Make it possible to change your vote during the voting process, as is possible with vanilla stats
Done
Accomodate the overall faster pace and further increase the power level of the senate
Done
Fix favor spam (see comments and changelog), favors can now still be used to gain some additional weight but it won’t be possible to trade them for an abundance of free monthly ressources
Done
Avoid turning every game into a political clownfiesta
In Progress (currently playtesting)
Making the mod more immersive
Initial Version done, probably needs polishing
Making the mod more accessible and appealing
In Progress(waiting for all of the above to be complete)
Avoid the nasty red exclamation mark, ensure everything still runs smoothly
Done
If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to comment.
