Sigma's factions Leviathan and Authority are my suggestion.These factions have great feeling. When we choose custom factions, 6 factions for the Union would have to be selected also, as there would be more than 6. That's good for keeping the character of the Union, e.g. less likely there would be opposite ideology. I am thinking of setting nil,nil,nil for the ideology of the superfaction, but I'm testing it now. We can also set superfaction (SF) personality in scenario editor to aggressive, next to no ideology, so it will give us more challenge.
...Yes, that is in plan. All six human-controlled factions will be pacted permanently. Any game event throwing out from pact would be immediately and obligatorily corrected.
Personally, I wouldn't force a permanent pact on all the human parties, ...
but let coalitions and animosities develop as they come.They will... :) Like in any parliament, I think.
That way, civil war wouldn't be out of the question. :DI did not think about! That would be possible, if we allow not obligatory pact. But then, it would be back to regular multiplayer demo game. And I thought of having sort of singleplayer demo game, to avoid too much conflict. It's RolePlay in mind.
It sounds to me the opposing 'Union' faction(s?) could be aliens already living on the Planet humans arrive on to colonize instead of another nation with voting rights in a sort of Planetary Parliament (the ingame Council).I would keep it human affair only. And the Union - would be single superfaction (seventh faction) - would represent six other factions, just played by AI. This is RolePlay in mind. So people writing stories could use multiple faction leaders in the Union (AI controlled) for the purpose of stories, fan fiction.
...Yes, that is in plan. All six human-controlled factions will be pacted permanently. Any game event throwing out from pact would be immediately and obligatorily corrected.
Personally, I wouldn't force a permanent pact on all the human parties, ...
We would need special setup of such support.
... give it the clean reactor ability...I think it is too much of an abuse. Several factions would manufacture a lot of units, that dumped into a clean reactor feature would need no upkeep. That would make economy too easy.
Hrm..... We could also take a much more "Confederacy" like approach and each member district is relatively autonomous, even to the point of military. A loose confederacy perhaps, prone to civil war if things become tense?Yes, we could have that. And level of autonomy could be subject to change by voting of member factions. E.g. do we have the same political setting in all factions, like all required to run Democracy, or we allow free choice.
Colonial Authority is a good choice. That Battlestar Galactica Admiral is a great idea - nice graphics from the show. Almost like Garland himself.
Also, if we should have a starting President faction, it should either be Sigma's Planet Authority or ;lal;, given both their status and ideals.