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Ethical Gestalts BETA

Description
updated version here

The aim of this mod is to allow gestalt consciousnesses to have ethics, from both a mechanical and a flavor perspective. It is currently not showing obvious errors at start but given its complexity there are probably still errors my brother and I haven't found.

Features include:
  • Countries must now have either the "Gestalt Consciounsess" or the "Distinct Individuals" ethic (the latter of which does nothing), and will then still have the equivalent of 3 points remaining.
  • Hive minds can have any ethics. Machine intelligences can have any ethics besides Spiritualist.
  • Hive minds can shift ethics via edict if their attraction to an ethic is high enough. Machine intelligences cannot- their programming is inflexible.
  • Gestalt consciousnesses can now use the Liberation Wars war philosophy and can outlaw
  • Rather than Liberation Wars allowing aggression against gestalt consciousnesses automatically, this is now determined by "Gestalt Hostility" policy
  • Empires which outlaw AI now have a total war CB against Machine Intelligences
  • Gestalt consciousnesses can now give aliens Residence citizenship and employ them in a very limited set of jobs.
  • Xenophile Machine Intelligences can build Organic Sanctuaries and grant aliens Bio-Trophy citizenship even if they do not have the Rogue Servitor civic
  • Spiritualist Hive Minds gain the "Prayer Trance" edict, increasing unity production but reducing all other resource production by Complex Drones
  • Adds the following civics:
    • Assimilator Contagion allows hive minds to assimilate xenos, and to infiltrate xeno colonies by establishing branch offices.
    • Cohabitor, only available to xenophile hive minds, allows a hive mind to sign migration treaties and establish branch offices when they have such treaties.
    • Unprincipled allows a hive mind to shift ethics much more easily.
    • Dynamic Morality allows a Machine Intelligence to shift ethics in the same manner as an Unprincipled hive mind.
  • Adds numerous new personalities and several new governments for Gestalt Consciousnesses.
  • Adds the "Identity Unification" ascension perk, which allows a country which has finished any of the three ascension paths to turn into a Gestalt Consciousness via special project (Machine Intelligence for synthetic empires, Hive Minds otherwise).
  • Several origins are now less restricted.
  • Gestalt consciousness opinion penalties are reduced although not removed.
  • Numerous other minor changes
Acknowledgements:

Thanks to my brother for testing this mod and Turtleshroom for making the icon for Cohabitor hives.

Compatibility:

This mod has inbuilt compatibility with Primitive Worlds by Violent Beetle

A version compatible with Ethics and Civics Alternate is available here

Compatibility patches with Forgotten Queens are available here (for the base version) and here (for the Ethics and Civics Alternate version). Note that if there are any compatibility issues between ECA and FQ outside of objects also overwritten by this mod the above compatibility patch will not address them. I have not looked into whether there are any such issues.

Sanity patch with Governments Variety Pack available here and is compatible with both versions and all other patches.

See the discussion section for a list of objects overwritten by this mod.

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15 Aug, 2020 @ 7:24pm
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kuyan-judith  [author] 4 Oct, 2022 @ 4:51am 
Sorry, once again I needed to add a link to the updated version.

Although in this case I haven't yet finished updating to 3.5, even the updated version is currently only compatible with 3.4
Hazardous 3 Oct, 2022 @ 11:38pm 
Are you still into this game or is this mod obsolete?
vulpixie 30 Jul, 2021 @ 6:32am 
they just have self-confidence issues
kuyan-judith  [author] 29 Jul, 2021 @ 1:02am 
I'd let AIs be spiritualist if Spiritualists had a mechanical identity that wasn't >50% "hating AI".
vulpixie 29 Jul, 2021 @ 12:36am 
pls dont lock machines out of spiritualism
RecreationalNukes 16 Apr, 2021 @ 12:53pm 
ETA on update? really wanna use this mod for 3.0
CorpsePuncher 28 Mar, 2021 @ 2:53am 
Ok cool, i figured it was a mod conflict as i believe i do have something along the lines of that mod.
Looking forward to the next version and touch wood its a smooth transition
kuyan-judith  [author] 25 Mar, 2021 @ 2:19am 
@Ristophistoles: That sounds like a bad interaction between this mod and one that's meant to give extra ethics points. In any case, it won't be an issue in the next version, which rather than messing around with ethic costs just makes Gestalt Consciousness a category of authorities instead of an ethic (this will probably introduce more compatibility issues than it fixes but was the only way I could find to resolve some bugs).
CorpsePuncher 24 Mar, 2021 @ 7:52pm 
im not sure if this is a bug for this mod or another but when picking ethics the base version costs 2 instead of 1 and the fanatical version costs 4 instead of 2 essentially forcing either 2 basic ethics or 1 fanatical.


I was also wondering if its possible to remove the "Machine Portraits" being tied to "Machine Intelligence" which is also tied to "Gestalt Consciousness" essentially giving players a choice rather then forcing them to play a "Gestalt" machine empire.