Is "invite to empire" working as intended?

[Skyman100]

-100 base to accept seems impossible to make work. Even with 200 relations and good dip rep. I feel like I am missing something

[grotaclas]

My guess is that it is intended that you need a high amount of acceptance from "need protection from". I don't know how it is calculated, but it can definitely get high enough if you also have high relations and no other factors against the acceptance:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2865146138
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2865146077

But I think it is a little weird that dip rep doesn't play any role.
One thing which I discovered when testing this is that you don't get any reasons from "need protection from" if they feel that you are their highest threat. This can happen even if they don't have a threatened attitude towards you. The only way which I know to see by whom they are threatened is the console command "mapmode aihre"

[Skyman100]

OK good info. I feel like maybe it does need to be changed. In my Sweden campaign with a friend it wasn't useful the entire time.

[grotaclas]

I think it is difficult to balance this button. If you can use it in all games without intentionally creating a favorable situation, it will probably be possible to heavily exploit it by people who aim for it.

[BonoboRules]

It depends on the dev amount. its live -1 per dev and you need 1 likeness over 100 per dev.
So 100 dev it's the actual maxium

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by BonoboRules:

It depends on the dev amount. its live -1 per dev and you need 1 likeness over 100 per dev.
So 100 dev it's the actual maxium

The needed opinion is 100 + 0.5 * dev, so the limit is 200. This seems to be the same calculation as with joining the HRE with the Join button.