Federation question

[Zorro]

Playing my first game and I'm peaceful so would like to create a federation. I currently have 2 other nations willing to join and naturally they hate each other and won't vote the other in.

They will accept an association with the Federation. I see this increases trust by so much a month. Does this affect all members of the federation or just the leader?

 

[Insane Commander]

I don't know, but in my game my federation has 5 empires now and there was one that changed the modifier very quickly. I was surprised when they asked me for my vote. The relations do improve. I even had two spiritualist pacifists that hated each other (one was also egalitarian, if that makes any sense) and the one in the federation accepted the other after some time.

 

[Space Chicken]

Everyone in federation. You can get quite a different kind of nations to your federation, but those might need to have mutual threat and rivals to make them like each other more.

Also sometimes nation X in my federation doesn't like Y, but will vote yes for federation invite for Y because X likes me so much. When I put mouse over the "Invite to Federation", I see "X votes: Yes (Y is sponsored by player). Not sure how this exactly works, but I guess it won't be enough for complete enemies.

 

[Zorro]

Thanks for the replies. It worked out pretty good. I picked the nation that was closer to me and another empire most have liked them because they agreed to join the Federation as well.