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6 years ago
Feb 7, 2019, 10:20:32 PM

Allow the Planet Brokers affinity to "buyout" a property development on planets in other empires during Peace, allowing the Buyout of new improvements on those planets which benefit both empires.


In detail:
- It does not provide Population slots. It is not a Sanctuary.

- It is not invisible. This is not an Espionage mechanic.

- It cannot be built in Cold War or War. These are mutual bonuses.

- Permission is not required. Force Peace to ignore the city council and zoning laws!

- Improvements include Dust, Science, Influence, Strategic, Luxury, and Trade Value bonuses.

- The bonuses are always shared


This would extend the Pacifist affinity theme of "overlapping territory" common to both Unfallen and Umbral Choir, allowing Lumeris to do more interesting things with their affinity into the mid and late game. It would also complete the Lumeris theme of deal making, real estate development, and financial cooperation, with improvements like hotels, opera houses, and casinos.


Potentially, each such Property could have a small Approval malus to prevent over-use, and the player could liquidate the whole thing for Dust in case they need to economically betray the other empire.

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6 years ago
Mar 18, 2019, 10:57:35 PM

This is a great idea and would really work to improve the mechanics of the Planet Brokers affinity, which IMO is weak and underdeveloped. It opens up interesting gameplay elements for peaceful empires; those who work together would end up with substantially higher development levels than isolationists and warmongers.


Would this property development include infrastructure/improvements that are already in-game, or would there be a set of new improvements that the Planet Brokers get priority access to? Regardless of that, I could see that gameplay affinity (and the Lumeris visual affinity, if this is an ability that is not simply restricted to Planet Brokers - but incentivized by them) getting unique/modified improvements that clearly benefit all members in a Peaceful relationship, rather than improvements that just care about Dust production and use.


If I could upvote this idea again, I would.

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