New ethical alignment ideas

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I'm tired of the currently available ethical alignments.Can any new ethical alignments be available in TA?
If not here is a new ethical alignment idea just in case.I'll be come up with more pretty soon.
Ethic name:Corrupted
Description:The Corrupted alignment is the alignment that races such as the Jagged Knife,Dominion of Korax and Dark Yor.This alignment is similar to Evil but is more of a mix of Evil and Neutral.The symbol is an alien skull and cross bone similar to one of the race logos available and is placed in a dark yellowish-green circle.
Abilities:Any spies on an enemy world is 25% less likely to be neutralized.
Info collected by by spies is increased by 40%.
Trade ability is increased by 30%.
Income made by planetary markets are replaced by Cantinas which adds a 20% income boost.
The new Grand Cantina galactic wonder is only available to Corrupted civilizations and adds a 80% income and moral boost.
That's all for now, I'll be posting more ideas pretty soon.
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
How about we balance the ones we currently have before going and making new ones, hmm?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I would like being given som alternatives for which bonuses to pick, that decides how evil/good I am. For example: I'm choosing an alignment. Then I have the options "Warfare, research, pasifistic and social."

If I'm good, warfare means some new buildings, and the super-defense techs are avaible to me. Social means entertainment and super-factories, research means more galactic achivements giving research. Pasifistic increases diplomacy and gives new influence buildings and starbase modules (this is the "best" choise for good).

Neutral warfare gives some new starbase modules and reduced maintenance. Research gives super-research buildings ("best" for neutral). Pasifistic gives influence achivements and some starbase modules (good for neutral, but not as good as the good alignment). Social gives good morale improvements.

Evil warfare gives the Psionic weapons ("best" for evil). Research gives some slight bonuses to research. "Pasifistic" gives infiltrators (super-spies) and some thought manipulator devices that increases moral, influence and diplamacy. Social gives superior factories like Slave Factory and so on.

Just a suggestion.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I wonder if there will be new ethic choices.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
All of these ethics would be free to align with because these are like other options and won't be able to have choices during event unlike the deufalt 3 thus rendeering it impossible to be leaning towrd the new ethics.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ethic name:Corprate
Description:Corprate civs are similar to neutral but have concepts and beliefs of good, evil, neutral and corrupted.They are very manipulative whent it comes to geting money,making deals with other civilizations and geting other civs to do their bidding.
Abilities:Manufacturing increased by 70%.
Income increased by 50%
Economic improvements are replaced with Galactic Offices.
Manufacturing improvments are replaced with Super Factories
The Galactic Headquarters replaces the political capital super project.
The Grand Central Office is only available to Corprate civs.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

similar to neutral but have concepts and beliefs of good, evil, neutral and corrupted.


What?

Excuse me, I don't think you understand what the ethic line means. By its very nature, it is a line with one end being pure good and the other perfect evil. Every alignment is along that line: good at one end, neutral in the middle, evil at another.

Your 'corrupted' ethic is a good idea, sort of. It is in between neutral and evil: basically evil, but not horrible like the Drengin or Korath.

You could have a 'benevolent' ethic, too: in between good and neutral. Not ALtarian, but quite nice on the whole.


You can't have 'a mix of everything'. Where's that on the line?--arguably neutral, which we already have.


The ethics system isn't a set of ethics, where you could combine evil warfare with good business practice, or perhaps be some awful whitecollar criminal but a pacifist. If it were so, then the Corporate would make sense.


But it isn't, and doesn't.