AI Federation members keep adding ships i dont want

[Nom__Anor]

Members of my federation keep adding ships with inferior technology to the design list and building them. Can i somehow turn this off???

[abyssalfury]

Are you President?

[Viece]

You can try pass the law allow only president to build ship, then try to pass law to permanent be president.

[captain403]

Go to the federation fleet designer (assuming you are president) and create designs you do want. There has to be a minimum of one design for each category, but they can use tech from any member. Delete the designs you don't want. Unfortunately, you cant stop them building frigates, even if you don't want them.

Alternatively, as suggested, pass the law restricting federal ship construction to the president.

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

another poor soul has blundered into the venus fly trap of having allies in a PDX game

[Sedrido]

Originally posted by Big REDACTED Marty:

another poor soul has blundered into the venus fly trap of having allies in a PDX game

thats big talk for someone within range of my 16 vassals

[Mennan]

Originally posted by Sedrido:

Originally posted by Big REDACTED Marty:

another poor soul has blundered into the venus fly trap of having allies in a PDX game

thats big talk for someone within range of my 16 vassals

Those aren't allies they're servants, maybe even battle thralls.

[Nom__Anor]

yes im the president but i cant pass the law because i dont have federations DLC. Is there a mod that stops them from designing and building ships?

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

Originally posted by Sedrido:

Originally posted by Big REDACTED Marty:

another poor soul has blundered into the venus fly trap of having allies in a PDX game

thats big talk for someone within range of my 16 vassals

observe as i hit your big number with my bigger number, unburdened by diplomacy

[Big [REDACTED] Marty]

Originally posted by Nom__Anor:

yes im the president but i cant pass the law because i dont have federations DLC. Is there a mod that stops them from designing and building ships?

oof

[mss73055]

If your federation type is "Martian Art" then the fleet building law is fixed to "free for all".

[Nom__Anor]

Originally posted by mss73055:

If your federation type is "Martian Art" then the fleet building law is fixed to "free for all".

as i said, because i dont have federations dlc, i only have "galactic union"

[RCMidas]

Yeah, without the Federations DLC, you've effectively got only the v1.0 release edition of the mechanic. It was perfectly serviceable for, what is it now?, eight years ago, but has been entirely left in the dust since.

A mod doing what you want is so incredibly specific that you'd have to make it yourself or otherwise hope someone can make it for you. With very few exceptions, public modders of this sort of thing tend to work on the assumption that their mod will be used in subscription or all/most-DLC games.

[Nom__Anor]

oh ok i guess ill just suck it up until the dlc goes on sale. thanks for helping!

[RCMidas]

No worries. I suspect the DLC'll be on sale, at least the various DLC from 2023 and earlier that is, for a couple of weeks next month when the latest expansion drops. Not a great deal, granted, but they tend to go between 25% and 50% off.

...ooof, and unless I'm reading it wrong, the sales history says you only just missed a 50% sale on it as part of the "Colony And Sim Fest" that ended March 31st. Though this one seems to go on sale four or five times a year, so you'll get plenty of opportunities if this keeps up!

[SkibidiToiletGroyper]

Originally posted by Nom__Anor:

Members of my federation keep adding ships with inferior technology to the design list and building them. Can i somehow turn this off???

The answer is incredibly simple: Don't be in a federation.