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Ethical Gestalts for 3.x
   
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4 May, 2021 @ 5:06am
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Ethical Gestalts for 3.x

Description
The aim of this mod is to allow gestalt consciousnesses to have ethics, from both a mechanical and a flavor perspective. It also allows gestalts to use a number of origins they cannot use in Vanilla.

This is done mainly by removing the Gestalt Consciousness ethic from the game, transferring most of its effects to the Machine Intelligence and Hive Mind authorities, and providing new AI personalities for gestalt consciousnesses with various ethics.

Other stuff this mod does:
  • Gestalt consciousnesses are now much less limited in what species rights they can grant to xenos, and may use planetary decisions to replace Simple Drone jobs with Worker jobs for xenos to work. The Singlemind Governance technology also allows gesalts to replace fabricator/foundry drone jobs with specialist jobs. In addition to gestalts being able to give xenos residency citizenship or a wider range of slavery or purge types, Xenophile Machine Intelligences may use the Bio-Trophy citizenship type even without the Rogue Servitors civic.
  • Gestalt consciousnesses gain access to a wider range of policies; they may now outlaw purges, slavery, land appropriation, or population controls. Gestalts which have outlawed land appropriation face limitations on their ability to replace worker jobs with drone jobs. Gestalts which have outlawed population control may still limit drone reproduction as much as they like, but cannot limit xeno reproduction.
  • Xeno residents in gestalt countries can form factions, although these factions cannot be embraced and do not produce unity.
  • Hive minds may shift ethics via edict, at the cost of unity.
  • The opinion maluses of regular empires to gestalts are greatly reduced but not eliminated.
  • The Verifiable Reprogramming technology allows countries to shift a machine intelligence's ethos by war victory.
  • Adds several new civics for Gestalt Consciousnesses (Guest Hive, Hive Assimilator, Unprincipled, and Dynamic Morality).
  • Guest Hives may enter into migration agreements, and given such agreements may establish branch offices. Their drones may migrate to planets where they have branch offices, and will form a faction whose Approval level is derived from the Hive Mind's opinion of the host.
  • Several events now have variants for Gestalt Consciousnesses.
  • Various other minor changes.

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138 Comments
idkynot 4 May @ 1:47am 
hey does this work with 3,14?
Vandoom 16 Feb @ 6:20pm 
@Leshee Sorry for ranting, I'm a salty American that hates the fact the only choices for leaders we have are Lying racists, end stage capitalists, and people nobody even knew existed because of the circle jerk of media companies abusing their ability to control our perception of the political climate and force us all into one of two parties that are both different shades of rich, spineless, heartless, kiddie diddlers.

I wish I could just wake up and not hear the news either claim were going into a second civil war or that the only choices are no guns or no abortions...

Please cast this soul into the void where it can no longer perceive this garbage.
Leshee 16 Feb @ 7:56am 
yeah you got me there. I genuinely don't know how I missed that. I'd be willing to try and update it to the latest version myself, can't be impossible. I'll poke around and see if I can find anything
Vandoom 15 Feb @ 11:01am 
If you must know why I said I'm one of the reasons, yeah I think multi-million dollar companies do have a responsibility to add, maintain, or entirely remove such features for third parties if their games depend on third party modification for it's best content.

I am toxic enough that millionaires and dozens even hundreds of employees should lose their fortunes and livelihoods for not putting out basic respect to their communities that make their fortunes and paycheck even possible.

No this doesn't extend to mod authors. They are providing a "free service" that extends the lifespan and improves the play-ability of a game. They shouldn't be held to the standard a developer should, but all multi million "or higher" dollar companies should at all time have their feet held to the flames, That's what made capitalism work until companies got big enough to to ignore it.
Vandoom 15 Feb @ 10:47am 
Alternatively we all should probably just boycott paradox and every single workshop compatible game for that doesn't implement game versions into their tags.

If the devs behind Rimworld can do it a 2 billion dollar company like Paradox can do it.
Vandoom 15 Feb @ 10:41am 
@Leshee "Not 3.12 ready. Sorry for the slow update, I'm currently on vacation in Germany." He's not updated it in a while, You've managed to leave two comments without noticing the ones right underneath you that show the mod is out dated and has been for a while.

Also last updated: Apr 12, 2024, 2:14am You and me are a couple of the reasons many mod authors close the comment sections. Please if you have the ability a leave a comment, You have the ability to check comments or at the least the last time a mod was updated.

Mods are not a public service, they aren't meant for you, and modding comes with responsibilities. Please take care of them or don't interact with authors or the community until you're willing to learn the basics or ask for the basics.

TLDR
Literally the last comments before yours explains what you need to know.
Leshee 15 Feb @ 9:21am 
I should add that I am using scripted trigger undercoat. but it says its for version .1592 while stellaris is in .15926. could this be the issue?
Leshee 14 Feb @ 12:34pm 
Hey there!

Firstly, I just wanna say I love the concept of this mod. I've felt for a long time that Gestalts would be much more interesting if they could have ethics, and you've piled on more fascinating features on top of that! very excited to give this puppy a try

Secondly, and I'm sorry for doing this to ya, but I've got a bug :( The game crashes on startup. I'd be more than happy to send a crash report or something if you want but Idk how to do so. I'm running this with no other mods but it just wont boot. This is on Stellaris version 3.14.15926 (checksum 68ca without mods).
kuyan-judith  [author] 18 Jan @ 3:17pm 
@Sin. Thanks. I hope so too.
Sin 10 Jan @ 6:20am 
I hope you can get around to updating this at some point!