New resolution ideas:
- A Spiritualist branch, either having to do with Unity (as that's their resource of choice) and Traditions/Ascension Perks or competing with the Materialist research branch so that you don't have to permit artificial intelligence as a Spiritualist if you want the tech diplomatic weight boost.
- Non-proliferation treaties for Colossi and other dangerous technology (Synths, Jump Drives, etc.). Would probably be hard to get support for from someone that doesn't have the tech unless the Galactic Community as a whole doesn't have it (but still is aware of it), but could be interesting.
- Naval treaties. Not sure how easy it would be to implement, and it would probably have to be a high-tier resolution that would be hard to get support for, but it would likely please powerful empires to be able to tell less powerful empires that they can only build X Battleships or Y Cruisers to avoid breaking Galactic Law or (if implemented the other way around) please smaller empires to be able to prevent stronger empires from running away to the same extent. Could perhaps be an Authoritarian branch if the first implementation is used, while being Egalitarian if it is implemented the other way around. Crises that have become the Galactic Focus would temporarily suspend these treaties.
- Consecutive term limits for the Galactic Council (permanent members excluded), as well as the minimum number of terms that must pass between serving on the Galactic Council. Authoritarians and current/likely members might dislike it, but weaker powers and Egalitarians might like it as it makes it harder for the Council members to abuse their position.
- Term durations for the Galactic Council. More frequent elections might be desirable by non-members, particularly coupled with the above.
- Resolutions regarding recess times and senate debate periods. More frequent sessions/shorter sessions might benefit some empires, while someone that is on a small Galactic Council and intends to rule through Emergency Measures, Vetoes, and Favours might benefit from very infrequent sessions/longer sessions.
- Resolutions regarding how frequent Emergency Measures may be used by any given member and in general. I had a period in my game where I and the other Galactic Council members basically called a senate session as soon as the preceding one ended because we all used Emergency Measures on fairly unimportant stuff to prevent someone else from doing it on something that would have been worse for us.
- Resolutions regarding how frequent any given member of the Galactic Council can use their veto powers (as opposed to just "Once every 10 years" and "Never").
- If feasible, a resolution governing whether a veto can be overturned by a large enough majority, e.g. by forcing a short senate session where the veto user gets a diplomatic weight boost and others can attempt to oppose that.
- If feasible, alternative election methods than pure diplomatic weight, e.g. having empires pick their preferred candidate based on opinion (with a certain amount of selfishness, particularly from Authoritarians) and vote for them so that smaller empires could band together to block a powerful empire from getting a council seat if they dislike that empire enough.
- Maybe a "Declaration of Protection" Council resolution, putting anyone attacking the protected target in breach of Galactic Law. Smaller empires and Pacifists might love that (particularly if they're protected), even if it wouldn't be possible to act on without going quite far down the Militarist branch.
- Maybe a "Grant Galactic Law Exemption" Council resolution, temporarily giving the target (or everyone) a reprieve from being in breach of Galactic Law and any sanctions that apply as a result (but not from secondary effects; if you crack a planet people will probably still not like you). People in breach of Galactic Law might love that, but others might not like it at all.
- Maybe a "Call for Ceasefire" Council resolution, giving the attacker in a certain war (or even all intra-Community wars) a "Status Quo or Galactic Law Breach" choice and giving the defender that same choice if they agree, with a refusal putting your side in breach of Galactic Law. Pacificsts and the losing side in that particular war might like it, Militarists and the winner might not.
- Maybe a resolution to strip the current Market Leader of the Galactic Market headquarters. Difficult to get support for from non-rivals unless the target is widely disliked or in breach of Galactic Law, but would perhaps be yet another weapon to use to combat a rogue member (or to abuse to weaken a weak target even more).
- Maybe a resolution to transfer emergency resources to a target, useful if the Galactic Community wants to help someone fighting off a Fanatical Purifier or something (or for powerful members to enrich themselves), along with resolutions forcing members to pay a small amount of resources (a capped percentage of their income) into an emergency stockpile (liked by Egalitarians, disliked by Authoritarians and Megacorps).
- Maybe a resolution blocking a certain empire (that isn't a permanent member; you have get rid of that first) from being on the Galactic Council for a certain number of years/a certain number of elections, making it hard for a disliked empire to keep a seat even with high diplomatic weight. There could perhaps also be a CB to oust a member of the Galactic Council if you pass certain resolutions (surely this wouldn't be abused) that could be an alternative to Liberation Wars for people that don't allow Unrestricted Wars.
- A Migration Treaty/Xeno Rights branch for Xenophiles and Egalitarians, eventually forcing everyone to permit free migration, refugees, and full species rights for all species. Might need to partially require Greater Than Ourselves resolutions to have passed to keep it from resulting in xeno slaves or xenos being purged everywhere.
- Maybe (Council?) resolutions to promote a certain ethos in the community, giving everyone some attraction towards that ethos, either for a limited time or to an increasing extent as further resolutions are passed. If tiered, people that have the ethos in question might support high tier promotion, those opposed to it would probably oppose even the lowest tier, and those that are neutral might accept one or two tiers but dislike going too far.
General Galactic Community tweak ideas:
- Make the AI re-evaluate proposed resolutions before they hit the senate floor, say once per year. It is annoying to see an unanimous vote quickly turn into a vote being contested, even if it perhaps is a bit accurate for things like that to happen.
- Add an alert for "Senate soon in session", so that we can make last-minute changes to our resolution approval.
- Add an alert for "Senate about to vote", so that we can call in Favours/change our vote before it is too late if we're busy with something else.
- Maybe show the main reason why the AI is voting a certain way if you mouse over them on the senate floor, in case it is possible to fix a problem (e.g. if they're slightly unhappy with you it could be fixed, while if they oppose something due to being a Pacifist you might not be able to do anything short of calling in Favours).
- Maybe add the ability to send envoys to directly harm a target's diplomatic weight (say by 1 % per envoy and with a maximum of one envoy per target per empire), making it possible for smaller empires that can't increase their own weight noticeably to oppose specific targets to a greater extent.
- Maybe make the Unchained Knowledge branch give a small (smaller than a research agreement) boost to researching (and drawing) techs that other Galactic Community members have discovered.
- Maybe delay some breaches of Galactic Law from resulting in sanctions for a short while. For example, if you build an extra Achorage while sitting at 50 % naval capacity used you could break Galactic Law for a month or two, which could be unfortunate if it coincides with a senate vote or Council election (and I suspect the AI isn't smart enough to avoid issues like this).
