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No Ideological Division

In the vanilla Brave New World game, with the new Ideological system, the diplomatic penalty for having a different Ideology than an AI was -35, when viewed using the Diplomacy Values mod. A denunciation, for comparison, is also -35. I've observed that when starting in later Eras where the Ideology is selected on Turn 2, this ideological divide creates a rift between the AI players that causes Order nations to make friends amongst themselves, and Autocracy nations to do the same. Autocrats will consider attacking Order neighbors instead of Autocracy neighbors, and since they have the +35 ideological opinion with Autocratic allies, they'll get friends even if they're a warmongering jerk. These ideological divisions end up being the all-powerful deciding factor when determining who will declare war on who in the early turns, and the pattern will continue until the game has created two international alliances, one with Order nations only, the other with Autocracy nations only, and since the AI doesn't know how to close diplomatic rifts, it will result in the AI Ideologies fighting it out forever. It's almost impossible for the player to stop this from happening as well, and even though they can make friends with Civs of other Ideologies, through actions such as freeing civilians or building landmarks, the two teams will continue to fight it out even if both share the player as a mutual friend.

This mod fixes that. It's a very small numerical change down in the game files, but it dramatically affects the way the game plays, when starting in the Industrial Era or onward. Without the positive ideological bonus, and without the negative ideological penalty, the AI players are much more likely to tolerate one another for their beliefs and they will be much more likely to band together against a warmonger, rather than fight opposite Ideologies. Note that this does not remove this issue entirely, it just reduces the effect and prevents the ideological teams from forming.

Note that, in Gods and Kings, the penalty for having a different Ideology is already pretty low, so this mod will probably have no effect unless you're using Brave New World and the revamped Ideology system.

====Credits====
Usernamehere, for making the mod.
The Diplomacy Values mod for being used to test this mod.
The Ideological Weight Increase mod for being a template which I modified to produce this mod.