Stellaris Dev Diary #131 - MegaCorporations

[Wizzington]

Is there a building for the branch office that gives research? Like a for profit university or a research lab? The criminal corps could get a medical testing facility where they pay desperate people to test types of medicine, giving society research.

We're not done making the corporate buildings yet but it's very likely there will be tech-related ones.

 

[Alfray Stryke]

Beside war, there is no way to kick out a non-criminal megacorp's branch offices out of your territory after the commercial pact is broken ? Like, there isn't even a diplomatic button to ask them nicely ? (Maybe with their acceptance depending on your potential of driving their head through the wall with heavy antimatter blasters). That would allow a more peaceful approach, especially if you want that pesky spiritualist attraction off of your worlds without actually beating the megacorp into submission and leaving them hating you for the next 200 years.

Or a diplomatic option to bribe them buy out the branch office for a significant sum?

 

[Wizzington]

Quick question: Does Subsidiaries gain difficulty boost modifier like federation members, or lose it like vassals, and tributaries?

They are subjects and are treated as such.

 

[Wizzington]

Currently it isn't possible to make xenophobic megacorps. Am I correct to assume they're possible now? Criminal xenophobic corporations sounds viable if I understood the mechanics you described.

Yes, you can be a Xenophobic MegaCorp.