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Quick tip. Don’t rely on prospectorium vassals to give you food in the long run. Once they hit level three, they’ll unlock Strip Mining and those destroy agricultural features for more mineral districts, this lowering the tax they pay on food. Just prep for this by building hydroponics on starbases or having a farming world in mind before they hit level 3.

7:35 I'd add a bit of a caveat here. If your territory is smaller, but better developed and managed- doing a good job of playing tall, basically- you may be able to maintain an edge. Having a large empire isn't all positives; empire size can negatively impact research speed, and tech being as important as it is, that advantage might be what you need to keep a vassal under your thumb.

PartyElite has a great voice for these narrations.

Womderful content as always PE! 👍🏻

I hate to look up guides on games I play, but I just had to with this DLC so I could learn how to create Prospectoriums from a insignificant Sector Vassal I just created. It's 100% a shame that we cannot specify what type of vassal we want them to be when we release them on our terms. On top of all that, it's barely impossible to make any vassal into a Propectorium with it's insane negatives...

Because of this DLC, the Hegemony Origin is now VERY powerful. Essentially if your the strongest militarily you are the Hegemony's leader. You can promise to come to a vassals aid if they go to war and offer them the option not to join any of yours, but as a member of the Hegemony they will be joining all your wars regardless. One issue I'm currently struggling with is how to turn a protectorate into a vassal.

Good Stuff !

Bulwarks should always come out from your extra sector. The economic hit is way smaller since they have to build up their planet and pop. However, the bonuses they get and can give you are still the same. You can trade for the defensive platform cost and upkeep reduction and transfer leaders with bulwark traits. That’s really all you need from a bulwark, right?

Are you going to do a playthrough? Going back to the classics

couple things: especially once gates are a thing, take ALL your vassals to war with you. they might not contribute if they are weak but at least you prevent the enemy from using their gates and attacking your rear if he is on friendly term with your vassals. which is often the case (enemy of my enemy...) if you are a vassal of an overwhelming opponent, don't give up. build relationship with the overlord, trade loyalty for free stuff (don't ask for subsidy for things you want to take from him the most as it block trade. also let him have holding on your planet, it reduces your loyalty so you can always trade it back to him for more free stuff, i.e. take all his alloys repeatedly) and eventually get him to give you max subsidies. use it to prop up your economy, build a fleet matching his, use favors (and that perk from diplo tree that gives +diplo acceptance) to ask for independence (war for independence would make you fight his fed buddies/vassals as well), once free get secret fealty from his other vassals, then declare and take all his stuff from him in one fell swoop (or two if he is really big) oh and one final thing. if you want a loyal subject fast, once you conquer the enemy don't force war goals. instead occupy all his system like you would but go for status quo. it will create a new vassal from his occupied systems (all of them in this case) except this one will love you for liberating him ;) just a little trick

When I try to vassalize an a.i. empire, after propossing, even though they agreed to it and I paid the influence, the process just autocancels and I just lost all my influence

I am having an issue figuring out how to go to war to vassalize someone?

Why can't i gift a vassal a system anymore? :(( Today I downloaded the update, and now the trade option "transfer system" is gone for all my vassals... Does someone know why? (I border-gore half of the map cause of that and i think that sucks...)

Someone please help me I had an empire begged to join me because they were too weak, then all my resources went negative. What is up with that

Can anyone tell me why I can't transfer territory I've conquered over to my Vassel? I have no need for it and they Desperately need more planets, but the game won't let me give any systems to them, even when they border each other.

New player to Stellaris and all DLC. Came here after I lost my entire empire to integration and didn't understand wtf happened. 😭 Thanks for the video!

Is anyone else having an issue with getting the Subjugation Casus Belli? Me and my friend have demanded to subjugate them but get not casus belli.

Might actually play this game nos.

Has anybody have problem with fastest speed ? To me at the fastest it go normal or almost normal....

Playing around with vassals in the new system and the second I suggest a specialization there is a -900 penalty. WTF? Everything else they agree to except specialization. I can get them to agree to be absorbed by my empire with only a -100 modifier but specialization freaks the AI out. Again, WTF?

when is the next planet zoo

I can only make protectorate... not vassels ;/

Someone asked to be my Vassal, I accepted because they were inferior and suddenly they didn't like me I don't know what happened lol

Umm wheres ep 3 for songs?!? 🤕

"...touching tips." Hehehe

How do i stop myself being integrated as a vassal

Lol touching tips

Third!

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They should revamp combat, something similar to Total War.

Why is this so complicated!

I didn't want any of this. To me the only purpose of a vassal is to be annexed.