Alignment/Religion Tech Tree

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To make things a little easier on us this thread is ONLY for the Alignment and Religion Tech Tree.

Please share your ideas. I will update the first post as we go.

Alignment Techs:

Good:
- Guidance Of The Valar, Preservation Of Lore

Neutral:
- None

Evil:
- Slavery, Tainted Knowledge

Religion Techs:

- Worship of the Shadow - Requires: Alignment: EVIL

 

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Some of my Ideas:

Alignment Techs:

- Evil: Slavery
- Neutral: Cultural Tolerance
- Good:

Religious Techs: - requires correct Alignment/Race/Civ

- Good: Light of Aman
- Khazâd: Teachings of Aulë
- Neutral: Guidance of the Valar
- Shadow: Corruption of Melkor

I believe some of you also had some very good ideas, so please copy them here so we can discuss them. We should do this one by one. So post your overall suggestions, thenwe will do this in order to get it done quickly and efficiently.

 

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I suggest we start with Alignment Techs. Finalize one before moving on to the next, so we don't miss anything. Let us begin with:

Alignment:

Evil:
-

As above, one of my suggestions would be:

Slavery

 

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Yeah, Slavery should definately be an evil tech. Can't think of anything else atm though.

 

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Updated Evil with Slavery in 1st post as suggested.

 

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Slavery is good. I wouldn't know a better one. Maybe forbidden knowledge or something.
For good, maybe something like Guidance of the Valar and/or Preservation of Lore.

 

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Updated with Berenthors suggestions.

 

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I'm not sure yet what they should do. The preservation of lore maybe something like enabling a wonder that gives you a free technology (like the oracle) and maybe a certain academy/university/library type of thing.

 

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Or perhaps it just grants you bonuses to your science output for each typoe of science building. Increaseing each by +1 Beakers or something like that. Although, enabling a Wonder would be cool too.

 

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That might even be better than another building, just increasing output of certain building(s). And we can also do the wonder in it (maybe quite expensive). For the religion/religion techs, there are some ideas in the religion thread. Maybe first choose which religions we want before looking into the techs.

 

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True. We will leave off the Religion ones until we have finalized the religions themselves.

 

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I think I would rename Forbidden Knowlegde to Tainted Knowledge, to show that Melkor didn't think of anything himself, but twisted what was allready there.

I like the suggestions for good; agree that Preservation of Lore should grant a bonus to existing buildings, maybe Guidance of Valar can enable some Good civic?

 

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Yeah that is a great idea. Maybe some civic as a counter to the slavery civic maybe also? I think indeed that tainted knowledge is better. Now for some neutral ones .

 

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Maybe we shouldn't add neutral techs, to make picking sides more of a temptation then staying in the middle.

 

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That is actually not a bad idea. It will at least give more incentive to choose sides. I like it. Is the slavery civic now only available with slavery (the tech)?

 

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That would be my proposal (and would need evil alignment as well, so you can't research it, switch to slavery and become good).

 

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Yeah we have to make sure the benefits and civics and stuff that you get from a certain allignment are lost when you switch allignment. But maybe this is already done when you have an allignment as prerequisite for a civic or building or unit or whatever.

 

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I can agree with no Neutral Techs. I will change it to Tainted Knowledge as well.

Perhaps the Civic could be called Free Peoples.

EDIT: Changed for just for Sengir

 

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Shouldn't that be Free Peoples then?

 

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If you want to be politically correct (in a Modern sense), yes. I will change it immediately.