Leader count

[Haldurson]

Yet another newbie question from me lol.
One of my researchers died, and when I finally had enough influence to hire a replacement, I got a message that I was at the maximum number of leaders. As you can see in the screenshot, it says I had 13 out of a maximum of 13 leaders.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=703450167

However, the count seems to be off. I have (after the one died) 2 researchers, 2 in science ships, 1 admiral leading my military fleet, and 5 governors. And I suppose that the overall leader must count as one as well. I should have 10 or 11 by my count.

Furthermore, shouldn't one dying give me an open spot regardless? It's not like I hired anyone else.

Coincidentally (luckily???) one of my governors chose that moment to die as well, so I managed to fill the spot. Something seems to be wrong with either my math, or what's shown, or...????

In a related question, is there any screen that shows all your leaders, active, inactive, what have you?

[pauldarkside]

With regards to the count discrepancy, if you've been in a few battles then maybe some ship captains have been promoted to admirals. If you go to the empire panel (F2) and then the leaders tab, you should see all of your currently available roster.

On another note, you don't need to have one governor per planet. Personally I don't have any assigned to my core planets; I'm the governor for those and as the amount of slots is limited I prefer to use them elsewhere. I just have them one per sector for their trait bonuses.

[Haldurson]

I did have a couple of promotions -- didn't realize that that was what happened, that they simply became idle.

So governors have a sector-wide affect?

BTW, I didn't know anything at all about sectors until I was pouring through the wiki last night. I was assuming that at some point I'd get some tech that allowed me to expand my number of planets. But when that never materialized after a really long time, that's when I went to the wiki and found it (eventually).

I'm going to play later this evening, so I can't test it right now, but if I'm at my planet limit, and I create another colony, will it prompt me to set up a new sector? Or do I have to find some control somewhere to do that?

[Freedom]

You can run 2 over limit pretty easy, as long as you have energy. 3 seems to be where it will crash your economy. The game will never force you to make a sector, you will just get to a point where you are losing so much energy that you will need sectors or stop expanding.

[Wingweaver]

Your empires leader actually counts toward that total. If someone else gets elected, he returns to the pool but one of your other leaders is often the one that gets elected.

On the Empire screen(Top left, 2nd button from the left) at the bottom, the 2nd tab I beleive shows leaders. You probably have an admiral or 2 who was awarded distinguished service.