Suggestion: Ideology Trees

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So I was thinking that you are creating individual tech trees for each of the races.Are you creating unique ideological trees?

Namely, you still have benevolent, pragmatic, malevolent. You could create evil race to be Pragmatic, Malevolent, Malicious instead. Where pragmatic is the Drengin benevolent for example (still keeps the benevolent tree with different titles or names).

The idea is to keep the trees basically the same, but in this case no-one would call the Drengin "benevolent" just less evil. Maybe as a future DLC.

Ideology determined by the perceived alignment of the civilization.

It would be nice if they had a unique type tree. Even if the bonuses are the same ;)

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

That...is a suggestion I don't think many gave ever considered. I sorta like it but I also want the freedom to be a race and not have to follow its ideology. (I'm not talking about the drengin, I can't think of anyone that plays them and doesn't play evil. }:) )

 

DARCA ;)

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I would even be happy if they set up some tags in the xml that allows a modder to set which trees a race has access too.

I like the ideological flexibility and the choices you make are still good or bad. It's just the trees have different verbiage depending on the race.

How they discussed things on the last dev stream got me to thinking that this would make some sense since it is kind of hard to choose slave labor from the Drengin, but all actions you take are benevolent. Makes you sound more Pragmatic in the end. That would fit that Races ideological tree ;)

Hoping to throw that out there to see what the community / devs thought about it.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting parrottmath, reply 2
it is kind of hard to choose slave labor from the Drengin, but all actions you take are benevolent.

I see no problem with this. The Drengin are certainly able to behave benevolently towards sentient lifeforms. Slaves, however, are not sentient. They are just a piece of biological machinery. On second thought, the Drengin don't consider any race, but themselves, as sentient. So maybe it is a bit problematic after all.

Anyhow, I like the idea. I'm just not sure, if the devs have enough time to add it in the base game.

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Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Did you just try to make a off handed joke Gaunathor?!?!? :thumbsup: