embassy in gravity well + upgrads

how come the embassy is on the planet. should it not be in the gravity well like all the other bulidings.  this way you would be able to select you embassy and it would have a list of upgrades like a starbace and you could do very evil diplomatic things to your fos. mohahahah

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Yes, I also wonder why embassies have to be on homeworlds only. It may make sense when compared to real-life politics, but I think it would be much more useful for the game if you could establish an embassy or some kind of outpost on all enemy planets. These outposts would be a kind of a civil starbase with upgrades like permanent planet vision, slowing of trade, production or culture spread, stealing income and so on. Maybe you could make them immune to weapons fire (diplomatic immunity blah blah), making the only way to remove them a "expel diplomat" option that your enemy has to research and that woud cost him money when he uses it.

 

Maybe such outposts/starbases could be placed on all enemy planets, while an embassy would still have to be built on homeworlds. Embassies on homeworlds could give global benefits that affect the whole enemy empire like slowing their research, giving you positions of all enemy envoy cruisers and so on.

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On the flip side, by that logic, could also be used to boost allied growth, production, trade and refineries perhaps.

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When I first went to go use the creat embassy option that's exactly what I thought it did.

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I thought I seen a post of the devs stating that in the next beta, embassies are out, it is the envoy cruiser that will have the bonuses.

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Yes, embassies will be gone in the next beta update.  Much of what's in the current beta has been tossed.

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I think making the embassie a big floating structure (like a peaceful starbase) would be a good idea. Some people are complaining that Diplomacy doesn't add anything "big" like starbases. No eye-candy. Having the envoy cruiser build a physical structure might alleviate that.