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painedforever posted:Having vassals allows you to automate sections of your empire? Not quite. A vassal is subservient to you, but essentially a vassal is its own player, empire, government, even species if applicable. While a vassal does provide levies and taxes to its lord, it also has its own goals, rivals, foreign policy, tech levels, fleet composition, and so on. While nominally independant, a vassal shares a great deal of technology with its overlord, pays a portion of its income as taxes and fleet capacity in levies, and is automatically called in to all wars involving its overlord. Stellaris' Sector mechanic allows you to automate sections of your empire. See, you've got your Core Planets that you control directly, typically a base of 3, expansion tradition grants +2 at completion, pacifist ethos grants +1, and the Imperial Prerogative perk gives +5. Exceeding that core planet count imposes empire-wide penalties on you; -10% energy and mineral income off the top of my head. For a large empire that can be absolutely crippling, so you definitely don't want that. How you get around that is you turn groups of planets into a sector, where the AI controls building development and pop placement on the planets as well as space construction. The sector has its own resource income and resource pool and pays between 25% and 75% of its income back to the central government (ie you), keeping the rest to fund its own development. You can think of it like this: A vassal has its own government, it is a real country. A sector is just another province of the empire. If you've played Civilization, think of it like setting your lovely cities to autobuild so you don't have to babysit them.  Here's a demonstration. The white areas of the UNE are its sectors, while the Republic of Penthul is a vassal. The sectors belong to the UNE full stop, while the Republic kinda does its own thing. Kayten is probably going to spin off his sectors into vassals later on in the game.
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Kayten posted:We're not going to use sectors at all while we're still a feudal empire. CK2 rules, baby. Time for that demesne limit to ruin us while i build up colonies before giving them to a vassal. You loving madman.
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I was half-expecting you to do a rotating narrator sort of thing.
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