Galactic market leader

[EdGreyfox]

Anyone know how the galactic market leader is determined? I got a notification that the galactic market was going to be founded soon, and had the option to choose one of my planets to be nominated for the leadership. I choose my capital, and the game said it was a strong contender, but about a year latter the market was founded by a hive mind race that has half the economic strength I have. I just don't get it...

 

[Jabby]

Anyone know how the galactic market leader is determined? I got a notification that the galactic market was going to be founded soon, and had the option to choose one of my planets to be nominated for the leadership. I choose my capital, and the game said it was a strong contender, but about a year latter the market was founded by a hive mind race that has half the economic strength I have. I just don't get it...

You have to nominate your planet multiple time

 

[EdGreyfox]

The game only let me nominate my planet once. When you try to do it again it says you have already nominated a planet.

 

[Twogs]

You have to nominate your planet multiple time

Thats just increases the chance. It is neither needed nor guaranteed to work.

 

[SirL]

My 0 trade value Machine Intelligence capital won. Also 2 trade value planet (which had "weak" status) won too. I thought its hardcoded to let player win

 

[EdGreyfox]

Seriously? You're telling me it's yet another RNG fest and isn't based on economic strength or anything tangible?

 

[Bouchart]

I did it once as a Hivemind, with no trade value. I don't even think the AI is coded to use the market.

 

[EdGreyfox]

That's just stupid. I don't know which dev came up with that idea, but they need their head examined. Maybe it's because I'm an accountant, but I just can't comprehend basing it on anything but who nominates the planet with the best trade value.

 

[Sinister2202]

In my game, someone had already been chosen as galactic market leader before I even discovered them. Very strange. I have higher trade value all across the board too.

 

[VELORUM92]

Nominated my planet for galactic market with 77 of trade power, - the biggest of all known planets in galaxy, I waited for 300 influence to evolve for better chances and when I got it, some random ugly mushroom empire get the market, with 12 of trade value and weak economy.

 

[The Boz]

This... is stupid.
Multiplayer game now. One player that has met 1 (one) other neighbor won the market. I have made contact with 4 others, and was at that time fairly strong economically. Wasn't even notified of its existence.

This needs to be a non-random blind bet, with bids, bribes, and base trade value. Nominations are silly; the capital should always be nominated automatically, one per empire.
And the fact that two empires in a universe of 9 can meet and make a market that will determine the economic world for the entire galaxy is silly. The market should not be created until there is one chain of communication among ALL empires (IE, not "all empires know all empires", but "all empires know all empires, or at least someone that knows an empire that they don't, or someone that knows someone that knows someone"), and similarly ALL empires need to be a candidate.

 

[Zabik]

Ye kind of dissapointed of how it works. Having lots of trade does not influence it. The rating stated in the planet menu does not determine it as well. The only real strategy to get the galactic market, is basicly to discover 50% of the galaxy, before others, and therefore be the only one who is nominated for it.

 

[Spidee]

Is the AI even nominating it?
I got it 3 times as socialist. 1 Adequate chance, 2 weak ones.

 

[Janusir]

I was a little surprised that electing a market leader wasn't an event like an election, with a window showing the various candidates, their trade values, and how good their chances were of becoming the galactic market leader.

So I'd like to suggest they change it to something like that.

 

[Zabik]

It would be also nice to receive a dev response on it. Maybe it is already working, we just do not get how it works, since there is no explanation...

 

[sejemaset]

I'd like to know how this actually works as well. I dumped 5000 energy and 850 influence into this on my latest game and an inferior empire on the opposite side of the galaxy won instead.

 

[Gratak]

Got it as Machine Empire (assimilator) without even nominating in 2.2.3

 

[The Boz]

As I said before, it is 100% full random, and permanent.

 

[Losttruppen]

I have also found the outcome of the election to be completely unrelated to trade value or anything I can think of. I also think it's hilarious a small pathetic empire in a backwater system can make a "galactic market" with his 2 neighbours and it's just accepted by everyone else in the galaxy that this is the center of all galactic trade forever after.

Would love to see a number of small markets develop between neighbours and then from those that are successful a true centralized trade hub emerges depending on the trade flowing through systems. This is probably a pipe dream though because the current trade systems is enough of a resource hog as is.

 

[Xaos]

I'd like it actually as a nomination based method. Let's hypothetically get the top 5 non fallen empire economies. Now let's do the following. Have the 5 empires give their policies for the market. An egalitarian empire could want slaves to be more expensive for egalitarians (as they will free them). Maybe a spiritualist empire could say that they ban robots on the slave market. Lower market fee on consumer goods purchasing. Raise market fee on alloys ( Let's say 5% max). I know most of these are slave market ideas but they are some basic ideas. Then, afterwards have the remaining empires vote over who they want to be the market holder.