Egalitarianism Chains... Hopefully you can see that these are not "Benevolent" ... Cultural Diffusion, which aims to equate alien citizens with one's own... is insidious, Curiosity becomes callous, and Equality ends up stripping children away from their parents upon birth at level 4... but on the other hand has incorruptible leadership (lol).

Cultural Diffusion:

1. Economic Outreach: 2 Freighters, 1 License, -5% Colony Income
2. Borderless Trade: 2 Freighters, Shared Border Penalty Removed, -5% Colony Income
3. Cultural Economics: Starbase Influence, Luxury Trade Routes
4. Galactic Respect: 15% Influence, other races angry with races who declare war on you.
5. Unification: 15% Influence, Convert all planets and Starbases in your influence to your empire. 

Curiosity:

1. Adventurism: 2 Surveyors, -5% Resistance
2. Great Minds: 3 Scientists, -5% Resistance
3. Data Security: 3 Spies, 5% Research, -5% Morale
4. Decentralized Researchers: 500 Research Points, 10% Research, -5% Morale
5. Networked Sleep Processing: 500 Research Points, 15% Research, -5% Morale

Equality

1. Command Economics: 1 Farmer, 1 Worker, 1 Engineer, -5% Colony Income
2. Classless Politicians: 3 Leaders, 5% Morale
3. Militant Advocacy: 2 Generals, 1 Diplomat, 5% Morale
4. Unbiased Birthing: 1 Scientist, 1 Worker, 1 Farmer, 1 General, 1 Spy, -5% Colony Income
5. Collective Consciousness: 25% Resistance, 3 Base Morale to all Colonies, -5% Colony Income

Love to get feedback on whether these are appealing, too easy a tradeoff, too harsh/etc.

That sounds great Although I won't play mods until I feel the game is "ready" (meaning there are no basic changes anymore).

Can there be more than 4 chains and 5 levels per chain?

Haven't decided yet on diplomacy relationships... It's definitely moddable to a certain extent. Maybe ill leave it in, but half the effect? We'll see. 

It's certainly valid that a civ just dislikes Anyone who doesn't prioritize their primary beliefs. Regardless of what those might be arranged to.

Looks great. The equality seems a bit overpowered with citizens. quick feel seems like too many at each stage.

Also compared to the other two, the citizens could start effecting the civ immediately, where as the others you need to send out to explore before they can become useful. So this doubles the usefulness of them.

Possibly cut them down by one (per chain), also assume those to +5 moral should be -5 moral? (otherwise again they seem even more powerful).

The work continues... I've now finished the Egalitarianism and Survivalism pyramids! These replace benevolent and malevolent. I discussed how Egalitarianism isn't always nice... well now you can see how Survivalism isn't always "crush the slavelings under our heels!"

Hey there! Thanks for the feedback... which helps because its very early into this process. Still, I'm quite happy with how things are shaping up and it should break up the incredibly immature good-vs-evil dichotomy that exists.

Now as for Command Economics... there is no diplomatic penalty? There is a gross income penalty. Essentially... you are proceeding with a command and control economy ala Communism... now granted in real life this failed miserably in the soviet era for a few reasons. 1) Inaccurate ability to calculate available resources... 2) Slow speed in reporting those resources to a centralized source, which then slowly reported back what to do, often, too late to realistically command, 3) human pressures... corruption/fear of being sent to a gulag if one reported less than ideal results/etc. etc.

In GC3 time... well data collection and speed of communication are no longer issues. All data can be collected with high fidelity accuracy in real time, and projections of economic results tested and simulated with incredible speed... so the only remaining factor is #3. I'm representing #3 by losing some Gross Income... there is still some corruption going around, but otherwise we are gaining some really useful state dictated control over the economy (represented by those citizens).

As for Unification... the point here is that your culture has so seamlessly integrated into the neighboring culture's infrastructure that basically... no one cares or even quite notices that you've taken over. Whilst a human player of course would be quite pissed... that is because they are a singular person in a short period of time being affected, and they are not subject to the very pressures and realities of living in the universe... in GC... I assume that the leadership of empires come and go just like real life, and that they too are subjected to the pressures and effects of your civilization. So basically... even the remaining leadership of the other civilization are still quite fond of you, even though you took over parts of their empire... at the end of the day, their own people are voluntarily switching to your empire... so who should they really be mad at? Besides... their summer home is in your empire and their 2nd wife happens to be your niece... not mention that their government owes you a ton of money and without your markets to sell their fleebs to they'd have an economic crisis....

You get the picture here?

That being said... it would be interesting to add a shared border penalty after you grab that skill... I'm definitely considering it.

Well I just finished all the abilities and converting the icons/etc.

Egalitarianism: Proselytism, Intellectualism, Equality, Cultural Diffusion

Survivalism: Nobility, Obedience, Militarism, Enhancement

Individualism: Democratic, Attainment, Independent, Hedonism

Hopefully each of these has a little "good" and a little "evil" in them. For example, Attainment is basically greed and corporatism, Democracy actually has a Plutocracy point... Hedonism isn't exactly virtuous (and has slaves lol), whilst Equality and Cultural Diffusion have some insidious aspects.... Enhancement and Militarism are probably for those of us who think the word "ruthless" is truly noble...

So I'm pretty happy with how its turning out. Now its time to learn how to edit the events and anomalies and such... not to mention some improvements need to be re-done.

Love it Guantlet. Can't wait!!

I see that Benevolent, Pragmatic, and Malevolent are still in use. Does this mean that the choices of Egalitarianism, Survivalism, and Individualism will eventually place you in one of the original 3 game categories or are you just not finished modding the screen?

I thought I knew, but I was wrong.  Then I remembered finding some text in a different file, checked it and found it there.  Look in the English\Text directory for Crusade, and find the file UIText.xml.  The three Ideology labels are in there.

These two are next to each other.

  <StringTable>
    <Label>NEUTRAL_LABEL</Label>
    <String>Pragmatic</String>
  </StringTable>

  <StringTable>
    <Label>MERCILESS_LABEL</Label>
    <String>Malevolent</String>
  </StringTable>

The Benevolent one is later in the file

  <StringTable>
    <Label>BENEVOLENT_LABEL</Label>
    <String>Benevolent</String>
  </StringTable>

Well this one will be it's own little package and can be used with or without GRM

I'm liking what I'm seeing but I have a quick question. Will you be keeping the original colony events? Cause I always like the shark colony event :>