Subsidiaries not building fleets

[Rhothaerill]

Anyone else having any problems with subsidiaries not building fleets? I was trying to go for a MegaCorp with lots of subsidiaries type of playstyle.

In my current game as a MegaCorp I released a subsidiary of a newly colonized planet. I realized afterward that he had no starport and no shipyard so I gifted enough alloys to build both and a few ships. He has not built a starport or shipyard yet.

A bit later I released two more newly colonized planets as subsidiaries, but this time I spent some time beforehand building a starport and shipyard in their soon-to-be capital, before releasing them. After that I gifted one some alloys. Neither have built any ships.

 

[stigmund77]

I find its best to release two or three built up systems when creating subsidiaries, however i have found success releasing one sector that has a star port and then feeding that subsidiary resources over time. (A few thousand now and again). Its always much better in my opinion to simply turn your enemies into subsidiaries, if you rush to turn your first contact into one you shouldn't need to release sectors anymore.

 

[Gyrvendal]

Stupid question, but how do you even release a subsidiary? I have been trying to find the button on 2.2 and no luck so far.

 

[CyberianK]

Vassals and other diplob!tches are always like a normal difficulty AI which means they don't get bonus resources. AI that does not gets bonus resources is bad at playing the game as it can't handle the new economy.

 

[stigmund77]

Vassals and subsidiaries are now created the the sector management window. Also i do agree that vassals and subsidiaries need to scale alongside the difficulty level of other AI players.

 

[IceAge0]

I put a subjugation casus belli on a neighbour, defeated them, and now they're my subsidiary. However, they will not build ships, except for colony ships. I've gifted them tons of every resource in case they were having issues. Bastards have 5x more worlds than I do. I really need them to back me up IMMEDIATELY! No idea what to do here

EDIT: Some new warships just popped up. Thank god!

EDIT2: They seem to be pumping out ships like crazy now. I guess defense wasn't a priority at first. Hopefully they won't realize that in the future, they may well be far more powerful than me and kick my ass.