how do i increase my diplomatic power stat?

[saliddry]

just made my first hegemony..... but while mine started at 511 and his at 520 but while

mine goes down now at 498

his is goes up now 532

i dont want to lose my leader seat ....how do i effect my diplomatic power???

[Nightmyre]

In the diplomacy screen, you can see each of the members in one of the tabs. In that tab, you can see the diplomatic power of each person. Hover your mouse over the power, and it should give you a breakdown of the calculation.

[Prometheus]

Fleets - More cap, more power, more points
Pops - 1 base plus up to 2 more based on happiness. 50% happy is 1 point, 100% is 2 points
Economy - Everything you produce. Make more stuff, get more points. Alloys are high value here
Science - Every tech you research gives more points

[Oakshadow]

This is one of those things you should probably check the wiki for. But to give a better breakdown.

Your Diplomatic score is the sum total of your Fleet, pop, economy and science scores. I believe the scores are modded a bit. but yea.

Your fleet score is weighted based on active fleet power and capacity.

Pops are as Promethian said.

Economy is weighted based on the type of resource your producing. Energy, food, minerals only count for 1 or maybe even half a point per good created... while Alloys and special resources count for much more. think 10 or 15 points per unit.

Science is again based on the number of techs you have under your belt.

Each of these weights are modified by galactic laws, policies and envoys. So for example say you're playing a megacorp and you're heavy into economics. You'll want to pass galactic laws that increase the diplomatic weight of your economic score. You'll also want to set your diplomatic stance to mercantile to give an additional 10% boost.

Envoy's assigned to the galactic assembly will also give you an overall diplomatic weight boost. And this is cumulative. So you can assign multiple envoys to stack percentage buffs to your weight.

Also Favors are pretty important when you play the diplomatic route. While yes you can spend them for 25 influence to give your empire a one time vote boost. Simply having them gives you diplomatic clout over the empire that owes it to you. So they're worth fishing for.

[Kitten Food]

Originally posted by Jay:

Envoy's assigned to the galactic assembly will also give you an overall diplomatic weight boost. And this is cumulative. So you can assign multiple envoys to stack percentage buffs to your weight.

THIS
Dont forget about how powerful envoys are, especially in a Hegemony. If you are in one, all of your envoys should be assigned to your federation. Screw the council, bc you will be conquering them anyhow.

As a hegemon, I typically go fanatic xeno and get anything to increase envoys asap. Diplomacy doesnt mean peace, it can also mean bending them to your will.

[Meewec]

Originally posted by Kitten Food:

Originally posted by Jay:

Envoy's assigned to the galactic assembly will also give you an overall diplomatic weight boost. And this is cumulative. So you can assign multiple envoys to stack percentage buffs to your weight.

THIS
Dont forget about how powerful envoys are, especially in a Hegemony. If you are in one, all of your envoys should be assigned to your federation. Screw the council, bc you will be conquering them anyhow.

As a hegemon, I typically go fanatic xeno and get anything to increase envoys asap. Diplomacy doesnt mean peace, it can also mean bending them to your will.

i just switched it over to powerful and fleets as the measurement. lost control for a little bit due to being trapped between my two allies and a fallen empire but once i got it back i was able to screw everyone else over by stealing their naval capacity for the federation fleet while keeping mine. that and i hated the auto-designs it made so i scrapped the fleet after designing new ships and let the ai waste all their alloys

[saliddry]

thx you guys helped a lot seems like im save now currently leading by 200 points and increasing

[Meewec]

Originally posted by saliddry:

thx you guys helped a lot seems like im save now currently leading by 200 points and increasing

just as a tip, if you get it set to strongest then they need to surpass you by 25% to take leadership