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Espionage Operation: Influence Ethics

Description
Espionage Operation: Influence Ethics

This mod adds a new espionage operation, influence ethics, which permits you to exert influence on the target empire's internal ethics. This is a two stage operation and after the successful completion of the second step you will exert influence on the target empires ethics for five years.

The target empire will then receive modifiers for the five year period for each ethic in your empire.

If it's a regular ethic it will receive a 70% modifier with the alternate ethic receiving a negative 70% modifier (i.e. xenophile vs. xenophobe), all other ethics will receive a negative 10% modifier.

If it's a fanatic ethic it will receive a 100% modifier with the alternate ethic receiving a negative 90% modifier, all other ethics will receive a negative 10% modifier.

These modifiers are cumulative so if you have a fanatic ethic and a regular ethic your fanatic ethic will receive a 90% modifier, it's alternate ethic will receive a negative 100% modifier, with your regular ethic receiving a 60% modifier and all other ethics receiving a negative 20% modifier.

It is important to note this will be an influence and does not allow you to direct the target empire's ethics... beware unintended consequences...

Requirements
  • This is classified as a manipulation category type operation
  • Costs 3600 energy
  • Upkeep 12 energy
  • Operational difficulty of 10
  • Effects last five years

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93 Comments
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 25 Mar @ 8:51pm 
Thank you to everyone for your support over the last four years but I will no longer be able to maintain this project going forward. Please feel free to clone the repository at: https://github.com/Joseph-Anthony-King/influence_ethics.git
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 13 Nov, 2024 @ 10:00am 
Updated to version 3.14 after reviewing the patch notes, no conflicts noted. Please make any reports of any issues here and I will try to follow up on them. Thank you.

https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_3.14
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 17 Sep, 2024 @ 6:06pm 
Please feel free to copy the code and implement it in your mod if you want to take responsibility for maintaining base files without renumeration.
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 17 Sep, 2024 @ 6:03pm 
Just an update for everyone, I found a mod, Expanded Espionage and Diplomacy, that adds espionage operations to the ai, https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2574175110 . It does this by modding the 00_base_policies.txt file and the 00_base_strategies.txt file both located in ai_espionage folder as indicated by Ever Universe. I'm not going to be implementing that in this mod. I currently have the Forward Earth mods noted above that implement extensive mods to base files the common folder. To be frank, every time there is a major update it is big freaking pain in the arse. Those files change so often that each update already takes about a day for the few mods I currently have... so I'm not doing that anymore. The code can be found here: https://github.com/Joseph-Anthony-King/influence_ethics Good luck.
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 16 Sep, 2024 @ 1:59pm 
Thanks @Ever Universe! I'll make the appropriate updates.
Ever Universe 16 Sep, 2024 @ 4:51am 
@joseph_anthony_king; AI needs to attribute a spynetwork strategy first to a spynetwork, and within that spynetwork strategy there are specific operations defined that can be used by AI. In turn, each of those operations has an AI random weight associated with them through espionage policies. All of those are within the ai_espionage folder. espionage_operation_types only creates the operations, but it doesn't enable AI to actually use them because AI needs to know what to do with them first, which is scripted within ai_espionage. That wiki page is only for operation modding. From what I can see, the wiki doesn't have a page for AI espionage modding. You don't need a wiki page anyway. It's pretty easy to figure it out by looking at how vanilla scripts do it. I myself have scripted dozens of operations to work for AI, and ai_espionage is a crucial folder for such.
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 15 Sep, 2024 @ 5:27pm 
@Ever Universe, I'm not seeing that as a requirement in the Stellaris wiki. What documentation is there regarding that?

https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Espionage_modding
Ever Universe 15 Sep, 2024 @ 6:11am 
@Batniel; From what I see in the files, AI can't use this operation because it's not scripted in ai_espionage.
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 13 Sep, 2024 @ 4:53pm 
Updated to version 3.13, and FYI... I checked it out and the AI should be able to use this.
joseph_anthony_king  [author] 19 Jun, 2024 @ 12:03pm 
Hi Batinel, I don't believe so