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Originally posted by Aq-s'ain:
Hmm... Maybe this "Seat of Government" shouldn't be a component at all, but instead a condition of a ship/planet. So basically you simply select some ship or planet and click some button and that's it. However, you can only move the Seat from place to place if the places in question are in the same sector (i.e. to move Seat from one planet to another you would have to use some ship as a transport). What do you think?
[This message has been edited by Aq-s'ain (edited 06 February 2001).]
That's basically the "Emperor location" method. It's just an abstraction. It might be easier to handle from a code standpoint, but realistically a government uses real estate and resources to do its business. It makes more sense to have a real facility or component that represents the government -- offices, records, communications equipment, etc...
As for a penalty for NOT having a Seat of Government:
1) A huge increase in susceptibility to intelligence operations of all sorts?
2) An increasing risk per turn of planets spontaneously rebelling regardless of any PPP operations? (5 percent++ per turn. 1 in 20, 2 in 20, 3 in 20... in a year there's a 50/50 chance that any given world will rebel and form its own empire... quite nasty, though it might be funny to see someone try to put a splintered empire back together.) The risk ought to decline only at the same rate, btw, not just stop cold when you get your seat of government rebuilt.
3) A loss of a certain percentage of all production to corruption? -25 percent of all resources is a pretty stiff penalty. Or this could be an increasing thing like the risk of rebellion. Same deal with the gradual decrease, too.
Do these sound like good reasons to maintain a seat of government?
There could be a special racial ability, "Anarchists" or something, that lets you do without a Seat of Government, too.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 06 February 2001).]