EDIT: The apparant change didn't actually happen, Eladrin clarified the civic still functions the same, but the tooltip changed for unknown reasons.
In the most recent stream, I managed to spot the description of the Feudal Society civic.
It now only mentions the " −50% Subject power penalty", not the " Subjects can build new starbases" effect.
Either vassals can now build starbases by default, or there is no way to let your vassals expand on their own now. I suppose in either case, the Feudal Society civic is worth even less than before. With improved AI, perhaps vassals themselves will become more useful. However, the decreased subject power penalty hardly matters anyway, so you could play a vassal-focussed empire without taking this civic quite easily.
I do hope this just means all vassals can expand though, otherwise taking early vassals became a lot more boring.
In the most recent stream, I managed to spot the description of the Feudal Society civic.
It now only mentions the " −50% Subject power penalty", not the " Subjects can build new starbases" effect.
Either vassals can now build starbases by default, or there is no way to let your vassals expand on their own now. I suppose in either case, the Feudal Society civic is worth even less than before. With improved AI, perhaps vassals themselves will become more useful. However, the decreased subject power penalty hardly matters anyway, so you could play a vassal-focussed empire without taking this civic quite easily.
I do hope this just means all vassals can expand though, otherwise taking early vassals became a lot more boring.
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