My primary concern right now on the diplomatic front is the absence of threat when you release another country and vassalize, then integrate it. This is a way to expand which is slow, but without any real challenge right now, and I believe the AI doesn't react at all as it should do. Here are two ways to spice up the situation.
The AI should perceive what you are about to do as a threat, because it is one : as much as if you were conquering these planets. Vassalizing a country, since it gives you access to half its ressource and to its army, should give you half the threat you would have had if you annexed it. Then, integrating it should give you the other half of the threat. Since threat (probably) decrease with time, it would still be less extreme than outright annexation, but the AI would hopefully react a bit more.
By using events, espionnage and diplomacy, the other countries should try to persuade the soon to be annexed country to become independant. Of course, such actions could trigger a war, which could extend to become a civil war in the vassalized country.
Of course, it should be correctly dosed, in order to prevent the +25% LD nightmare of EUIV, when small countries were able to break vassalisation links with far greater power for apparently no reason. There seem to be such a mechanic as Liberty desire in Stellaris, since vassals can dislike their overlords, and being able to influence it would be interesting, but the experience should mainly still be safer the weaker the vassal is.
The AI should perceive what you are about to do as a threat, because it is one : as much as if you were conquering these planets. Vassalizing a country, since it gives you access to half its ressource and to its army, should give you half the threat you would have had if you annexed it. Then, integrating it should give you the other half of the threat. Since threat (probably) decrease with time, it would still be less extreme than outright annexation, but the AI would hopefully react a bit more.
By using events, espionnage and diplomacy, the other countries should try to persuade the soon to be annexed country to become independant. Of course, such actions could trigger a war, which could extend to become a civil war in the vassalized country.
Of course, it should be correctly dosed, in order to prevent the +25% LD nightmare of EUIV, when small countries were able to break vassalisation links with far greater power for apparently no reason. There seem to be such a mechanic as Liberty desire in Stellaris, since vassals can dislike their overlords, and being able to influence it would be interesting, but the experience should mainly still be safer the weaker the vassal is.
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