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Pragmatic Materialism

Description
This is a simple mod that adds a new ascension perk for materialist and fanatic materialist empires that gives them access to the psionic theory tech. It kinda bugged me that my scientifically minded empire would completely disregard all psionics as unscientific when the empire next door was communicating solely via telepathy with an immortal god-empress. This simply lets your materialists realize that the material universe is stranger then they thought.

The conditions for the perk are:
-Your empire must be materialist or fanatic materialist (obviously)
-Your empire must have taken two Ascension Perks already
-You must not have the Synthetic Evolution perk
-Must not already have researched the Psionic Theory tech already

Compatibility
1.6.* Compatible
This mod only adds stuff, it doesn't change any vanilla files, so it should be compatible with any other mods

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Paradox, for making a great game

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Feel free to do whatever with this, just give me credit if you use any of it.
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nukestar Jan 16, 2019 @ 12:34pm 
Honestly, I have always found the spiritualist/materialist division odd in Stellaris, why do my spiritualists oppose "souless machines" so much? Why can't they worship a machine god or something. And why do materialists seem so intent on willful ignorance of an entire field of study, after all, sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from technology.
MightNight Dec 8, 2018 @ 10:13pm 
Yea...it would be nice lol
Mori  [author] Jun 29, 2018 @ 10:44am 
Thanks for letting me know. I've been without a computer capable of playing the game for some time, so I'm unable to look into it, but I'll try fixing it when I get my computer back. Probably gonna take a while though -.-
Archailect Jun 28, 2018 @ 7:12pm 
Does not work as of 2.1
Words and Philosophy Feb 28, 2018 @ 11:44am 
@CactusFantastico

I like this theory, however it's possible for pops from a materialistic empire to migrate to a psionic empire, and then develop their own psi powers.

It's also not locked to ethics or time, it has a chance to happen as long as the pop is organic, not rebelling and lives in a psionically ascended empire, so even a materialist pop that migrated here 1 year ago can experience awakening, so it's not just the second generation of immigrants or the opening of the mind to the possibility (adopting spiritualism)
Mori  [author] Feb 26, 2018 @ 12:13pm 
That's good. I haven't played Stellaris in a while, been waiting for this expansion, so as soon as stuff starts updating (and i can afford the DLC) i'll look into seeing if anything needs tweaking
Bullfrog Feb 26, 2018 @ 8:50am 
Yep, worked for me in 2.0.
Elitewrecker PT Feb 25, 2018 @ 3:41pm 
Anyone tested with 2.0?
Price Sep 27, 2017 @ 10:34am 
I liked to think of it more that their minds were closed to psionics and therefore could never harness it, unless their populations divulged in ethics. I also find it annoying that materialists cannot ban AI.. any rational person can see AI could be a threat. Do you think you could implement that?
viperfan7 Sep 23, 2017 @ 7:36pm 
I'm assuming it'll be working in the new patch?