Being Able to Halt/Limit Empire Sphere/Area of Influence

Suis3i

Voyager

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7 years ago

Dec 17, 2017, 4:39:02 AM

Possibly have an option in the manage empire screen where you can halt the spread of your empires sphere of influence. This would probably cost influence to enact and may increase certain political ideologies like pacificism.

Edit:

This part was suggested by Aimer;

1. A Diplomatic Agreement that halts all border movement between two empires. Basically, borders that are touching they won't increase or decrease.

2. A sort of "Influence/Border Value Meter" that directly informs you how much your border is increasing and the rate of increase, since it's quite difficult to tell how fast your border is increasing by just looking at the influence production count.

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realRadiator

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realRadiator

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7 years ago

Dec 18, 2017, 2:35:23 PM

Hi,

what is the main reason behind your question? Where is the use in that?

Regards

Litany

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Litany

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7 years ago

Dec 18, 2017, 3:08:43 PM

I'm not OP, but I guess to limit border tension? Give a player another way to dither away Influence? Let allies get at systems to colonise that would otherwise be within your influence sphere? Give of the impression of being weaker than you actually are? Build up influence and then try and suprise passive takeover a system like culture bombing? Overtaking systems passively is difficult enough already though. Its use cases would be subtle. But subtle is interesting.

Updated 7 years ago.

Suis3i

Voyager

There were endless Endless and then there were limited Endless

Suis3i

Voyager

7 years ago

Dec 18, 2017, 6:36:39 PM

realRadiator wrote:
Hi,

what is the main reason behind your question? Where is the use in that?

Regards

I dunno, it would just be interesting, since realistically (I know this is an unrealistic game) no empire would just continue expanding for no reason. + aesthetically you may want it to not continuously expand and overall it would just provide an interesting mechanic to the game (though I'm unsure how the AI would act with it)

Suis3i

Voyager

There were endless Endless and then there were limited Endless

Suis3i

Voyager

7 years ago

Dec 18, 2017, 6:38:10 PM

Litany wrote:
I'm not OP, but I guess to limit border tension? Give a player another way to dither away Influence? Let allies get at systems to colonise that would otherwise be within your influence sphere? Give of the impression of being weaker than you actually are? Build up influence and then try and suprise passive takeover a system like culture bombing? Overtaking systems passively is difficult enough already though. Its use cases would be subtle. But subtle is interesting.

Yeah ^^^^ this too lolol

Aimer

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Aimer

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7 years ago

Mar 21, 2018, 7:21:30 PM

Awesome idea and realy needed for more peacfull paystiyles! But I suggest to expand this idea by adding a new diplomatic agreement that stops bordermovement between two empires, if their borders are touching each other.

Or how about a value that directly displays the size of it's area of influence for each system, which is increasing by a certain amount of influence per turn, or even decrasing, if you choose to "feed" on you own sphere of influence in order to shrink your area of influence and get a temporary boost in influence per turn.

Suis3i

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There were endless Endless and then there were limited Endless

Suis3i

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7 years ago

Mar 23, 2018, 6:43:08 PM

Aimer wrote:
Awesome idea and realy needed for more peacfull paystiyles! But I suggest to expand this idea by adding a new diplomatic agreement that stops bordermovement between two empires, if their borders are touching each other.
Or how about a value that directly displays the size of it's area of influence for each system, which is increasing by a certain amount of influence per turn, or even decrasing, if you choose to "feed" on you own sphere of influence in order to shrink your area of influence and get a temporary boost in influence per turn.

Sorry for not responding sooner !

I like both of these suggestions ! I’ll be sure to add them to the idea and give creds to you (if that’s ok)

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