I know that lot of people will hate this topic because of reasons, and i agree that this changes require lot of smaller changes especially in events and flavour texts, but this change can allow the game to introduce religions that lot of people wants, so its a good start for big paid DLC, so maybe someone should look into it.
Also, science is most important resource in the game, and no ethos should be favoured in science.
First of all - spiritualism doeas not means religous, even in stellaris does not mean it, yet only spiritualist empires can build temples, and this have to change.
All ethos in stellaris are religions in a sense (pacifists believes that wars are bad. Xenophobes BELIEVES that xenos should not be treated equally etc.), so why not allow them to be religious even not being spiritualists.
My idea is to remove temples from spiritualism ethos and put it into civics:
- Temples do not increase spiritualism ethic attraction, but rather governing ethic attraction.
- Exalted priesthood require fanatic ethos and allow to build temples that increase govenment fanatic ethic attraction, and gives high priest job.
- Religious state does not need fanathic ethos, but only allow to build temples instead of other unity producing buildings.
Materialism vs spiritualism should differ in a way of perception of the universe - while spiritualists believe that material world we are living in is not the whole world, and there is much more to learn in spiritual realm, materialists believes that everything is a part of material world even if not yet discovered or explained (even psionics and shroud are part of this word, there is nothing supernatural, aeverything can be explained). Spiritualists ask questions, even if there are no aswers, while materialists answer questions, but dont bother with asking some of them.
Materialists gets bonus research alternatives and bonus research while researching tech other empire knows.
Fanatic materialists can choose to discover rare techs that are known to empires they have research ageement.
Spiritualists have one less research alternatives, but bonus to unity output.
Fanatic spiritualists have no research alternatives, they discover techs at random, but have chance to roll rare tech which criteria they dont met (lists of those thechs should be fixed because we dont want to roll precognitive interface while being synth ascended... or do we?)
Robots and psionics should be not tied to this axies, and change nothing in ethics.
Also, science is most important resource in the game, and no ethos should be favoured in science.
First of all - spiritualism doeas not means religous, even in stellaris does not mean it, yet only spiritualist empires can build temples, and this have to change.
All ethos in stellaris are religions in a sense (pacifists believes that wars are bad. Xenophobes BELIEVES that xenos should not be treated equally etc.), so why not allow them to be religious even not being spiritualists.
My idea is to remove temples from spiritualism ethos and put it into civics:
- Temples do not increase spiritualism ethic attraction, but rather governing ethic attraction.
- Exalted priesthood require fanatic ethos and allow to build temples that increase govenment fanatic ethic attraction, and gives high priest job.
- Religious state does not need fanathic ethos, but only allow to build temples instead of other unity producing buildings.
Materialism vs spiritualism should differ in a way of perception of the universe - while spiritualists believe that material world we are living in is not the whole world, and there is much more to learn in spiritual realm, materialists believes that everything is a part of material world even if not yet discovered or explained (even psionics and shroud are part of this word, there is nothing supernatural, aeverything can be explained). Spiritualists ask questions, even if there are no aswers, while materialists answer questions, but dont bother with asking some of them.
Materialists gets bonus research alternatives and bonus research while researching tech other empire knows.
Fanatic materialists can choose to discover rare techs that are known to empires they have research ageement.
Spiritualists have one less research alternatives, but bonus to unity output.
Fanatic spiritualists have no research alternatives, they discover techs at random, but have chance to roll rare tech which criteria they dont met (lists of those thechs should be fixed because we dont want to roll precognitive interface while being synth ascended... or do we?)
Robots and psionics should be not tied to this axies, and change nothing in ethics.
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