can we have the option to change out type of government? it would mostly be a title change and would add a small bonus to the game.

Dictatorship: +10% planetary mineral production

Monarchy: +10% planetary artifact production

Communism: Mineral Tarrif reduced from 20% to 15%

Theocracy: -20% to research +25% to artifact production

Technocracy: +20% to research -25% to mineral production

Oligarchy: +15% to planetary production, planetary production timer increased by 15 minutes.

Democracy: +10% to research production

Feudalism: +5% bonus to planetary attack and defense

these are just suggestions. i think it would be fun to be able to actually have knights if ur in KoNR or KwsN, or actually have a space pope if ur in the Christian Legion, or have a council of elders if ur in the Dysonains, DOO, or DOO2.

That could be interesting.

Sounds like a good idea to add more spice to GL.

Interesting idea, it allows a bit more personalization to the game. And I am always up for a bonus here or there.

This is actually a really neat idea. It could be part of the "bases" but I don't see why it would need to be lumped in with that. I suppose it would profoundly affect which legion people choose. Low levels have very little reason to want to be in a theocracy but higher levels definitely would with how resource caps work and how expensive research can make everything. Maybe it could be tweaked a little so things were a little more even and the unbalanced ones weren't slightly nerfed. I think the leaders could choose or take unofficial votes if they really wanted to. I wouldn't want to convince 50 people they should acquiesce to a theocracy when it clearly has a 5% loss compared to the other ones though. You could have group missions to unlock forms of government.

Part of the idea I had on how bases should function was that they should provide a benefit that could be improved or even lost. Those could all be ship effects (att/def/cloak/scan/something special. It would avoid overlap and it makes a lot more sense for the economics of things to be based around a government rather than some hub that, realisticly, would be insignificant compared to the thousands of planets in a legion. Bases could be more of a strategic thing, since planets can fill most of any of the other roles a base might play.

I like this this.

I don't think oligarchy, communism and feudalism look very appealing compared to the rest. You would have to include anarchy to make project anarchy happy. Before I'm told, yes I know they create anarchy more than they subscribe to it.

I think one of them should raise resource caps. Since, unless you buy the storage structures, most people end up filling up their research and mining in 6 or 7 hours eventually.

im not so sure that we should have a elder council tho maybe a United Legions to keep NAPs and alliances in check and to help settle disputes. but not a Elder council that controls the ebb and flow.

Excellent idea :): its awesome, lets hope dan does something about it :)

id pick technocracy or Oligarchy :):):): techtechtech

damn right you need anarchy!!!

Anarchy: -15% planetary production, +75% invasion defense

epic bump. governments are supposed to be one of the upcoming updates. http://galaxylegion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5207

I hate multiple threads with the exact same subject all over the place.

lol as soon as i saw that this was in the update i got super psyched!

Well it could be totally different. My guess is that it probably is the same idea just adjusted for balance and appeal. One is supposed to be a pacifist government, probably democracy or something. IMO, it is production version of what I think bases should do for stats. bases could be improved or captured/disabled making it a bit different.

so dan did accept your idea, AWESOME!

Um - that's *legion* governments, not player governments.

That will be SWEET!!! I already know what gov't system I would choose for Dysonians.

What is this Pacifist thing that Dan was talking about ? Is it like a no-PVP flag or something in effect ?

I like the idea of a United Legions, but how exactly would that work?