

Buildings may be required by certain rituals, such as the symbol burning ritual there must to be a symbol to burn, of course. Successful, high-quality rituals may also grant an additional reward such as faction goodwill or the addition of a new pawn to your colony.

Rituals are specific social events of varying forms and themes which, depending on their quality, may provide a mood buff or debuff to the colonists participating in them. Colonists assigned a specific role may be granted certain bonuses and powers, though often at the cost of being more difficult to keep happy and being unable to perform certain types of work. Roles serve a more practical purpose, and most require a specific meme to be unlocked but every ideoligion will have a role for its leader and moral guide. Styles determine, in conjunction with structures, the overall "theme" of your ideoligion both in description and aesthetics for example, a Christian-structured ideoligion will feature "God" as its sole deity and its artistic members will only produce Christian-themed sculptures. For example, an ideoligion with the Guilty and Animal Personhood memes requires that the precepts for charity and animal slaughter are set to some form of requirement and disapproval, respectively meaning your colonists will gain a mood debuff if beggars are turned away or a colony animal is slaughtered.īeyond memes and precepts, there are also styles, roles, rituals, buildings, weapon and clothing preferences, venerated animals, and rules for types of hair and tattoo. Precepts can affect gameplay in a number of ways to varying degrees, as they change your colonists' expectations in accordance with the beliefs they represent. The primary effect of memes comes from precepts, however, as many memes similarly unlock or require specific precepts, which perform most of the gameplay alteration available within the expansion. Certain memes may unlock or require certain styles, rituals, and other features in the same vein as structures do. The impact of memes varies across three tiers, with some not affecting gameplay much and others altering it drastically. You can choose up to 4 memes, which establish the practical foundation of your ideoligion. Structures typically determine the default style and randomized content of your ideoligion, and may unlock certain rituals, but have no effect on what memes can be chosen.

Once the game begins, you can view your ideoligions and those of other factions by clicking on the lightbulb icon in the bottom right.įorming an ideoligion begins with selecting a structure. You additionally have the ability to customise the ideoligions of the factions, within some restrictions on the memes depending on their type of faction. There are four options: You could choose to "Play Classic", choose one of the prebuilt ideoligions, or choose to form your own - if you choose to create your own, you have the choice between creating a fluid or static ideoligion. When starting a game, after choosing the world tile, the player can choose their starting ideoligion.
