I second that. It makes sense to add a secondary government to different systems, since they are so much far from each other. Even if it's not as good as the "Empire capital". One of the systems would house the Empire Capital, the others would be minor capitals which would give a boost, albeit a more modest one. It could be a researcheable civic. To move my empire capital, I'd have to pay twice as much.

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maybe it should be a researchable thing in the next expansion

or as a variable of government types (should something like it be implemented). 'federacy' gives access to multiple administration seats, whereas 'empire' is restricted to one or only few.

otherwise, linking it to research is also a good idea. maybe like in fleet supply, you could research several tiers of them instead of a downright '1 regional capital per system' topic. or you go for that latter but have several levels of effectiveness.

the big question of course is: what should be the exact effect? sure, increase allegiance, but of which worlds? how much? I'd suggest the regional capital world gets a 15% allegiance bonus, worlds one jump away 10% and worlds 2 jumps away 5%. the rest is not affected. those are just rough numbers and could be increase via research or other stuff.

Yeah, it would make sense for them to put that in the next micro expansion.

Yes, Zoythrus.

The Vasari have huge powerful ships but apparently their system of government makes the citizens rebellious (what's chasing them?!).  Advent have powerful mind-control culture so they wouldn't have a problem with this... TEC are a loose affiliation, so they would be midway with loyalty/allegiance.  I suppose the TEC could use their economic model to keep their citizens loyal.

Defineately agree.

I would also like to see leaders 9ie Governors, Regents, whatever) and government types that influended how different things happened. A Feudalist government might be better at warfare, with a hereditary military tradition, but poor at growth, with an inflexible chain of command and people that were afraid of acting without higher support.

Leaders would be both system and planetary, they would affect the system or planet's output (mining, production, taxes, etc) They could have both positive and negative influences, removing a leader might result in a revolt by that planet, or even the system. Other nations might try to bribe a leader to revolt. If you don't have a leader however, a planet's moral will steadilly decline. Some leaders might be corrupt and leach a bit off the top, pirates might form readilly in such systems (more than one pirate world) and so on.

some of these ideas remind me of a game called "Seven Kingdoms 2: The Fhrytan Wars"