Conversely if a pawn had more precepts in line with an ideology that was trying to convert them and they fit in the precepts of that ideoligion better than their current ideoligion, the easier it would be to convert them to said ideology.Īfter all it is easier to convert someone whose precepts only deviates on whether they can sleep together when in love or not rather than someone who believes in the inherent supremacy of a tunneling cannabalistic blinded and masochistic faith for example. The more in-line a pawn would be with their ideology's 'norm', the easier it would be for them to retain conviction or prosletyze it. The more precepts a pawn has that deviate strongly from the 'norm' of an ideoligion the weaker their conviction would be of that ideology. Some pawns might not care if two other pawns are sharing the same bed when unmarried while another pawn of the same religion might despise it. Each individual pawn would have their own opinion of each other based on their precepts and try to convince the other through conversations and arguments to make them see the world their way. Even rivalry in the same ideologion based on different stances on where the precept norm should lie would form naturally.Īs a simple example, the 'Physical Love' precept could have some leeway in how pawns and the game treat it.Īn ideologion could have its Physical love precept 'norm' set at 'Spouse Only (Mild)' but individual pawns could still consider their personal precept on this as 'Free' or 'Spouse Only (Strict)' and be considered ''in-line'' with the religion and not suffer any lack of conviction from this position.

Friendships would form more around shared affinity and beliefs rather than arbitrary methods as well. If you allow pawns to have opinions of each other based on their precepts rather than arbitrary ideologious affiliation, you could have a lot of nuance and different ideologions combining and living peacefully together as long as they aren't too drastically different from each other. Hell you could even allow ideoligions to drift into different ways organically this way if enough pawns change their precept so that the ideoligical 'norm' becomes something different.

Pawns having entire ideoligions dictating their precepts currently but rather pawns should have their own individual precepts and based on those precepts would fall into a proper ideoligion category with some leeway.Ī single ideologion wouldn't also be completely set in stone this way and have individual pawns present more nuanced and varied views in rimlife. Pawns should have their own individual precepts rather than ideoligions prescribing fixed precepts from a top down method.

List of rimworld traits