Empire Policy

Empire policy window. From the Foxtail empire.

An empire's laws are expressed using policy settings. Policy settings can only be changed by the President and Vice-President of an empire.

Government

The government type define the way government office positions are given and received.

For more information of each government type, see the Government page.

Trespass Policy

Trespass policy determines what happens when a station or city detects a neutral station or city on its sensors.

This is used to automatically declare war on neutral empires that build a city on a claimed planet or within the same solar system.

Allow Trespass

Ignores neutral stations or cities.

Prohibit Trespass On Settled Worlds

Declares neutral empires to be enemy when their cities or station are detected at worlds where you have a city.

Prohibit Trespass

Declares neutral empires to be enemy when their cities or station are detected.

Immigration Policy

Immigration policy determines how easily players can become members of an empire.

Open

Permits all players to join an empire. Players that join the game are presented with a list of empires that have capitals and an open immigration policy. Players who lose because they have no more spawn points are reassigned to an empire with a capital city and an open immigration policy.

By Request

Permits other players to request entry into an empire. This request must be accepted by the emperor. With this policy, the emperor may also invite people to join the empire. The empire does not appear in the list presented to new players.

By Invitation

Restricts entry only to those who have been invited by the emperor. The empire does not appear in the list presented to new players.

By Password

Similar to Open, but also requires prospective citizens to give a password in order to join your empire. Appears in list presented to new players.

Right to Found Cities

This policy determines where empire members can found new cities. This only applies if the member doesn't have chain of command over the planet.

• Citizens Are Not Permitted to Found Cities
• Permitted on Worlds with No Cities
• Permitted on Worlds with Enemy or No Cities
• Permitted on Worlds with Neutral or Enemy or No Cities
• Permitted on Worlds with Friendly, Neutral or Enemy or No Cities
• Permitted on All Worlds

Founder Office Assignment

The founder of a city is assigned an office if they are not already in the chain of command of the new city. Founder Office Assignment policy determines the highest office the found will be assigned, up to the lowest office in the new city's chain of command that is already being held by someone.

• Galaxy Administrator
• Sector Administrator
• Solar System Administrator
• World Administrator
• City Administrator

For more information, see the Chain of Command page.

Isolated City Debt Policy

Debt policy can authorize isolated cities to issue government debt to purchase essential supplies.

• Authorized
• Prohibited

Once authorized, there are some requirements:

• Seller must be from the same empire as the city.
• City muct not have any manufacturing processes producing the supplies.
• Supplies must be food, air in unbreathable atmosphere, or used by a construction or manufacturing process in the city.

Zone Build Permission

With the zone build permission options, it is possible to allow other empires to found cities in resource zones controlled by your empire.

By default, other empires are not allowed to found cities in resource zones that already have a city, this simple allows for exceptions to that rule.

Contrail Color

The contrail color is simply an option to set visual color of spacecraft and space vehicle engine contrails.