Improvement of Alliance System

Hi. I think about some improvements in the alliance system. Here are some problems I experienced about Alliance:

1. When I played with Lumeris, I made several trade agreements with various empire. But my alliance declared war so half of my agreements became null.
2. I prepared to attack my neighbor riftborn. but suddenly he became one of my alliance.
3. I declared war against Lumeris, but my alliance instantly formed a peace treaty.
4. I was so angry with the alliance system that I wanted to play without alliance, but all four survivors were allied, I had to fight against the galaxy.

I thought of three goals to improve.

1. Alliance means a military alliance, but it is not necessary to participate in the war of the alliance.
2. Important problems (such as war, peace, new member joins) are decided together though meetings.
3. The alliance may be lifted at any time, and other empires may be deported from the alliance.

Specific amendments are as follows. Meeting occurs when important matters happen. Through this meeting, we confirm everyone’s opinion and carry out work. The process of the meeting is as follows.

1. propose the agenda.
2. Each empire set their opinion. There are five kinds of opinion.
   1. Propose – It is the person who proposed the agenda. It means strongly agree with the agenda.
   2. Agree – agree with the agenda. If you adopt this opinion, the empire opposing the agenda hates you
   3. Neutral – not interested in this issue.
   4. Object – object to the agenda.
   5. Oppose – strongly opposes the agenda. if this agenda is accepted, this empire will leave the alliance. If there is an empire that has adopted this opinion, other empires hesitate to agree. Proposer and opponents hate each other.
3. the proposer and opponents can change other empire’s opinion by giving gifts(other opinion: The Empire that agree or object can not change its opinion, it means only neutral opinion can be changed.)
4. Agenda will be accepted or rejected depending on the conclusion of the meeting.

The agenda includes war declaration, defense support, truce, new empire join, empire expulsion. According to each agenda, opinion can be changed. For example, opinions in the agenda for the new empire to join the alliance is as above. but in the agenda for expulse empire from the alliance, the opponent empire forms a new alliance with the expulsed empire.

Here are opinions for declaration of war.

1. Propose – It is the person who proposed the agenda. declare war.
2. Military support – Participate in the war.
3. Economic support – Don’t participate in the war. Supports dust, manpower or strategic resources to empires that participate in the war. Trade or research agreements with enemy empire will remain because it is not declaration of war.
4. Object – object to the war. 
5. Oppose – If war is declared, this empire will leave the alliance.

Agenda: [Defense support] only works when we are declared war. Basically, it is like declaring war, but there are some differences. First, the empire that proclaimed the war becomes a proposer. An empire that choose economic support receives an influence penalty. proposer will hate economic support. Third, you can’t object. Fourth, an empire that oppose leaves the alliance and receives massive influence penalty.

Adding some agendas will make alliance system more interesting. One of them is about the alliance policy. it is a policy that applies to the entire alliance. It is not bad that this polices require influences, but it would be better to have a strong bonus and penalty.