Federation Cohesion in Pyxis

[[ᚨᚢᚱᚨᛉᛖᚱᛟ]]

Updated to Pyxis today (no dlc) and so far enjoying the changes over the little I've played. However, my current playthrough's federation now seems to be in trouble, as I'm the only member that has assigned a delegate to help with cohesion. Wasn't a problem before, as members at least helped with envoys and I could always assign extras if need be.

Am I missing a mechanic? Is AI just not working right with the new federation delegate system?

[tempest.of.emptiness]

I can't say for sure, but it sounds like a case of the AI not having been given enough weight to assigning a delegate to their federation. Considering the changes, this should be an imperative, meaning that any AI in a federation should always assign a delegate to that federation regardless of any other considerations (with the sole possible exception being a case where an AI is trying to sabotage their own federation, which ought to be extremely rare).

There could also be a dose of not having rebalanced how cohesion is calculated to reflect the fact that envoys can no longer be assigned to federations.

Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to test this out myself right now. I don't believe you are missing any mechanic, though. The AI ought to be using a delegate to increase cohesion, and if that isn't happening then it's a problem.

[[ᚨᚢᚱᚨᛉᛖᚱᛟ]]

Basically agree on all counts. Notably on the cohesion rebalance:

Quick headmath shows that even if we had a delegate from each federation member (5 members) we'd still be losing cohesion unless I dropped the federation Centralization. It's possible this cohesion loss could be overcome with more members, but that seems a little wild. Something feels amiss here.

[mss73055]

I experienced cohesion the other way around: my 2-member spiritual federation is unbreakable. My single non-specialised administrative brings in 15 cohesion.

[whereisscott]

I noticed this on my last playthrough as well (before it crashed and now it won't work). A local neighboring empire asked me to create a federation with them, we did, they didn't assign anyone for cohesion, and now we're in a death spiral. I'm just seeing how this plays out. Am wondering if the issue is that I need a specialist who helps with cohesion, but those don't' come along very often.

[Edix]

The problem I am running into is that I actually cannot assign one. I started the federation, I am the President, but the "assign leader" button is grayed out and it says "You have to be [in this federation] to assign a leader".

I wonder if the AI can have this same issue.