[MOD] A More Perfect Union – Federations gameplay

[AKjeldsen]

A More Perfect Union is a very simple mod I made to explore how much of the federation behaviour is moddable.

Currently, the main feature is to require a vote for inviting new members into a federation, just as for alliances. This was very simple to do, just a matter of copying a line of code, and seems to work fine. Unfortunately, the voting system never activates the same way when someone asks to join a federation, I suspect because of how the federation president interacts with the asker, but at least it's something.

In addition, I have created a planetary edict ("Federal Proposal") that calls an event structure. At the moment it does nothing, but might be useful for doing some more advanced things, such as asking the president for a war declaration. The game appears to recognise e.g. declare_war as a valid command, but it's not clear to me how it works in terms of scope and such. Any further work will probably have to wait until smarter people than me work out the full details of scopes and commands, but at least it seems like there are some possibilities.

It's all very proof of concept at the moment, but perhaps you will find it useful/interesting. Use at own risk, etc.

Download:
http://www.scripturus.eu/projects/perfectunion/perfectunion.zip
Steam Workshop:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683417706

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[llamadog903]

This looks cool, I hope you get the kinks worked out

 

[Ventessel]

There's a lot of potential here! I think Federations at the moment are a bit bland, but could be so much more interesting.

 

[sresk]

Is there a way to add voting for going to war? And a way to make the vote 66%-85% instead of 100%

 

[Baldamundo]

Really excited to see how this mod progresses! Was kind of disappointing to realise that in vanilla, if anything, being in a federation just made the game more boring and less fun,,,

 

[AKjeldsen]

Is there a way to add voting for going to war? And a way to make the vote 66%-85% instead of 100%

I'm pretty sure there isn't, unfortunately. Alliances and federations actually use the same event in the script for declaring wars, so the voting mechanic is already "built in", as it were. It just doesn't get used by federations, so that's something happening in the code.

 

[Doctor Arheo]

I've been looking into similar things, and found this thread. I've essentially got to the same stage, and am somewhat stuck on the idea of voting for federation president. I wish all these mechanics weren't hard-coded.

It turns out you can set federation president by effect, so the nearest I've got is electing the most 'well regarded' federation member as president every time an election rolls round (1 day after).

Watching this mod with interest, though, and if you make any progress, give us an update!

 

[AKjeldsen]

It turns out you can set federation president by effect, so the nearest I've got is electing the most 'well regarded' federation member as president every time an election rolls round (1 day after).

Good to know. I wonder if it would be possible to do some sort of weighted function taking different factors into account, e.g. regard, population size, military power, etc. At least all those things should be accessible via conditionals, so I guess theoretically…? I don't know.

Do you have your code uploaded anywhere? If you don't mind, I would be interested in taking a look at it. Still trying to figure out exactly how all these parts work together.