[Pax]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I like a lot of the concepts for the mod - but I dislike the number of "religious" traits. Can a species not be religious and still be war mongers?

Well, of course.

Warmonger is a strategy,a chosen course of action.

However, a warmonger race which is also comprised of bloodthirsty religious ZEALOTS ... has a few advantages over the garden-variety warmonger.

Essentially, the Religious (war) trait means a race has an active religion centered around combat, warfare, and deities dedicated to the same. Take the combat benefits of the stock-SE4 Religious racial technology ... all the benefits that applied directly to combat will be here. It'll cost slightly less in Exodus than in stock SE4, because it won't get the full range of benefits stock Religious races get.

But it will have the equivalent of a War and/or Death shrine, and the talisman, and probably a few other benefits (religious-modified armor is an option, perhaps).

I split them because -- for ME -- I would nearly take Religious for the Nature shrine alone. In Exodus, I need only take Religious (Life) to gain that benefit. Why pay for religious components and facilities I won't use?

And folks would always be free to take ALL the religious traits if they want; there'll be multi-Religious crossovers, and possibly a few toys that only those with ALL the Religious traits will get.