I´ve ever dreamed of a version in which you can change your Capital faction to a faction who is living on a Planet in your Empire.

Silver2238 wrote:

I really quite like the idea of convincing a warlike faction to make a hit on a rival civilization. Not sure how that would work out mechanically, but it would be fun conceptually.

This sounds great. It would be characteristic for a militarily weak but influential diplomatic faction to attack an enemy through a third party in this way. 

I'm usually not that interested in spy/espionage systems, but most of my experience is with Civilization. If it lets me do this kind of cloak and dagger stuff, I'll be all over it.

Silver2238 wrote:

I really quite like the idea of convincing a warlike faction to make a hit on a rival civilization. Not sure how that would work out mechanically, but it would be fun conceptually.

If we are getting a spy/sabotage system like in Endless Legend then perhaps we could have agents placed in their government who planet evidence that your rival factions are trying to screw them over?

Silver2238 wrote:

I really quite like the idea of convincing a warlike faction to make a hit on a rival civilization. Not sure how that would work out mechanically, but it would be fun conceptually.

This.

I quite liked that feature in Sins of a Solar Empire where all the players would try to outbid each other for Pirate raiding services. 

I think it would be great if you could pay off minor factions or pirates to "cause trouble" for your opponents while you publicly keep your hands clean.

I really quite like the idea of convincing a warlike faction to make a hit on a rival civilization. Not sure how that would work out mechanically, but it would be fun conceptually.

Frogsquadron wrote:

HiveAscension wrote:


1) On occasions I would like to see quest/demands that lobby the minor faction interest to the main empire completion of these quest could increase the factions loyalty to you

This will happen (if somewhat indirectly) through Minor Faction quests.

HiveAscension wrote:


2) Minor faction specific improvements and technologies “gifted” to the player based on minor faction’s assimilation progress.

That we'll have to give a pass on, if only for balancing reasons (if a population has a bonus and their own building has a bonus of the same type, we'll end up either stacking out the wazoo or having ridiculously low bonuses). :)

Why not combine the two? Have minor factions that you have assimilated or pacified present quests to you at semi-random/semi-regular intervals. The rewards could be standing with that faction and/or simple technologies unique to that faction. Perhaps they could even reward ships to you, like when you could discover ships in ES1 while exploring.

 In fact that could be how you assimilate minor factions peacefully. Instead of just bribing them outright or doing a single quest, you do mulitple quests over time to increase your empire's favour with that minor faction. Depending on the 'politics'/ideals of that minor faction, your actions could hurt or help your standing with them. Your bribes could increase your standing for a limited time or hurt your standing if that factions ideals make them despise bribery, which allows room for error on the player's part. We already have somewhat of an idea that minor facs have their own pseudo-militaries, why not up the ante? Each minor fac could have its own homeworld defense fleet to defend themselves. Nothing large, but just enough to deter players, and it could scale as the game goes on to stay relevant. Giving Minor factions interactions and a risk/reward system that can keep on giving makes them dynamic and keeps them on your mind as the game goes on. I mean really, if I knew that the minor fac I'm friends with could be swayd to an opponent's side over time I would definately try to keep them happy. Having them keep on giving players questes throughout the game that are related to the current state of the galaxy would make it even more fun and a real blast to mess around in politics. Perhaps during war time you could even count on super loyal minor facs to supply their own ships and troops and supplies to help the war effort, giving your empire a sort of 'City-State' vibe like Greece had in the ancient past. Of course being able to infiltrate their governments with spies and such would also help keep things running. Good God the longer I think about what could be done the more I come up with! The Possibilities are truely Endless!

The new ruling faction could subordinate to the old capital planet or have to fulfill a migration to it.

Frogsquadron wrote:

Changing capital could be problematic in cases where you're fighting a domination victory and people just keep changing their home planet to avoid capture... 

Not if you have long cool downs for it.

Changing capital could be problematic in cases where you're fighting a domination victory and people just keep changing their home planet to avoid capture... 

That we'll have to give a pass on, if only for balancing reasons (if a population has a bonus and their own building has a bonus of the same type, we'll end up either stacking out the wazoo or having ridiculously low bonuses).

This will happen (if somewhat indirectly) through Minor Faction quests.

HiveAscension wrote:


1) On occasions I would like to see quest/demands that lobby the minor faction interest to the main empire completion of these quest could increase the factions loyalty to you

HiveAscension wrote:


2) Minor faction specific improvements and technologies “gifted” to the player based on minor faction’s assimilation progress.

I wonder why no one replied to this yet, sounds like a very good idea that would add a lot of immersion!

Indeed, sounds like a fantastic idea. Would help make minor races a viable tactic.