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« on: February 17, 2023, 10:40:08 AM »
Hey Histidine, thank you for all your hard work, got a couple of ideas..
Is it possible to give more flavor to Declarations of War, if you take over Jangala, Hegemony gets a "casus belli", to declare wars over "The Reconquest of Jangala", say if Kadur invades Garnir, pirates get a "Ambush and wipe out" to take it over again and hegemony because they claim Corvus can push back whatever non-tributary/commission faction from their system, say if the league for some reason takes garnir over or tri-tachyon, they get a mission to push the hegemony out of the system or the hegemony gets a mission to wipe them out.
Right now wars are weighted on relationships, I for no reason, keep getting wars declared on my faction and my commission faction only for the entire Eternity span of a month, sometimes a week later for a ceasefire to happen, it's like the factions have no idea what they're doing, no goals in life, such as reclaiming lost territories.
More Impacts over declarations of war such as a increase in stability losses tied to how long the war has been going, how many fleets were lost, planet saturated/raided, planets lost.
Or an Increase in Stability for taking revenge against a faction that has caused so much harm, while prioritizing taking over lost lands, I see AI going absolutely crazy over my planets in Rim Systems far away from the Core Systems instead of focusing on stuff I've conquered right in their yard
Likewise a increased focus on war flavor.. "Liberation" should be priority in Alliances, say a faction lost territory to a aggressor, focus the might of the alliance on recovering that planet, instead of trying raid a system far away from it for the 8th time
Officer, Administrators, Governors... Romans.
Have a way to convert Officers into either Agents or Administrators,
it would be a match made in heaven when using mods like Arma Armatura that has that hullmod Wing Commander which allows you to make a elite squad of fighters that eventually can be turned into Officers themselves, and even captains if someone use the Special Squad feature, been having a lot of fun with this! Agents should be easier, more accessible, and converting officers into agents could be incredible
Administrators there could be a tie with Industrial Evolution where you leave a officer to be turned into a administrator, of course, former officers could have more "fleet oriented" traits, instead of economics, so you will still have to go after those trained in Distributive Economics instead of your officers.
I have some Administrators I have absolutely grown found of, what if there was a way we could give them more powers in our my factions, such as turning them into Governors that can rule an entire system on their own, with a increase in the traits pool, giving higher stability bonuses.
Think Autonomy but on a whole system, less debuffs with it's all centralized on a single individual, they essentially become a sort of "Agent", instead of having missions to do something shady, the Governor gets missions but it's all about the colonies, letting you chat with them, tell them to raise a patrol, give you some credits, you could also tie that Z/X button we use to request fleets to governors and their specific industrial capacity
minor but giving an UI to allow modders to even put some flavor in there, but most of the time it's just about telling your governor to focus on industry/economy/military, sorta how Sectors used to work in Stellaris, if you're not familiar.
Measure this as a sort of relationship too, if you ask too much of a governor they could even rebel, establish their own faction, maybe they use a random player faction flag and get a random faction name based on their own name.
EDIT: Maybe Governors can also become Special Contacts Themselves, allowing some rather unique missions to take place, all the way to stuff that can impact of the planets / the whole system.
Give Special Squads the ability to raid Systems if it has a Outpost assigned to it, we can create a lot of outposts and more often than not they are a somewhat useless stockpile I keep forgetting about, but what if we expanded it to include the ability for Special Squads to take control of it and use it as a base of operations where it can draw supplies, and deposit loot raided from systems you assign them to Raid? just a minor income boost to encourage players to build more personalized armadas
Also Kudos because thats the most wholesome feature, to see a fighter pilot grow up to be a lieutenant and then a Captain is one of the most fun things I've did in this game
I've been modding starsector for a while now and I now these are some very tall orders, but from all I've seen, this mod has already accomplished the impossible and absolutely amazing, many times.
I'm happy if at least the officer conversions are considered.
Thank y'all again for all y'all done.
