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v0.34:Ethic

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List of acceptable ethics tags

Ethics tags are used in the entity_default raw file to determine how races feel about various issues. Relationships between civs are based on their ethics value numbers in relation to each other; Some yield favourable positive numbers or unfavourable negative numbers that result in ethic/civ conflict. Civs with UNTHINKABLE in a specific ethic will happily go to war with a different civ that has ACCEPTABLE in that same ethic type.

Example usage: [ETHIC:ASSAULT:PUNISH_SERIOUS]

In un-modded DF, this corresponds to wars over eating sapients and elves declaring war on everybody for harming plants and hunting/displaying trophies.

Ethics types

Token Extra Information
ASSAULT
EAT_SAPIENT_KILL This determines if the race will sometimes devour dead enemy combatants.
EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER This also determines whatever or not a race is willing to butcher other sapients.
KILL_ANIMAL A response between MISGUIDED and UNTHINKABLE (see below) causes the entity to refuse animal products in trade - namely, materials with [IMPLIES_ANIMAL_KILL].
KILL_ENEMY
KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER
KILL_NEUTRAL
KILL_PLANT This determines a race's position towards wood as well - a response between MISGUIDED and UNTHINKABLE (see below) causes the entity to refuse wooden objects in trade, and it also prohibits them from bringing caravan wagons.
LYING
MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL
MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE
MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT
OATH_BREAKING
SLAVERY
THEFT This determines whether the race will try to steal goods.
TORTURE_ANIMALS
TORTURE_AS_EXAMPLE
TORTURE_FOR_FUN
TORTURE_FOR_INFORMATION
TREASON
TRESPASSING
VANDALISM

Ethics values

As used internally (see below), roughly in order of acceptability:

Num Token
0 NOT_APPLICABLE
1 ACCEPTABLE
2 PERSONAL_MATTER
3 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
4 JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
5 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
6 JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
7 ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
8 MISGUIDED
9 SHUN
10 APPALLING
11 PUNISH_REPRIMAND
12 PUNISH_SERIOUS
13 PUNISH_EXILE
14 PUNISH_CAPITAL
15 UNTHINKABLE
16 REQUIRED

Ethics value numbers in relation to each other

The following table describes how entities respond to differences in ethics, using the evaluator's ethic response as the row number and the target's ethic response as the column number.

- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -5 -5 -2 1
2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -5 -5 -2 1
3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -5 -5 -2 1
4 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0
5 0 -1 -1 0 1 2 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
6 0 -2 -2 -1 0 1 2 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -2
7 0 -2 -2 -1 0 1 0 2 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -2
8 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 -1 1 -1
9 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 -1 1 -1
10 0 -5 -5 -3 -2 -1 -1 -2 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 -5
11 0 -5 -5 -3 -2 -1 -1 -2 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 -5
12 0 -10 -10 -7 -3 -2 -2 -3 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 -10
13 0 -10 -10 -7 -3 -2 -2 -3 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 -10
14 0 -15 -15 -10 -5 -3 -3 -5 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 -15
15 0 -15 -15 -10 -5 -3 -3 -5 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 -15
16 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -5 -5 -2 1

The above values were collected from a disassembly; they should be identical to the values below, given by Toady himself [1] (anything above listed value indicator is counted for same value difference):

Token
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON +2
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +1
SHUN
APPALLING
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
PUNISH_SERIOUS
PUNISH_EXILE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
UNTHINKABLE
   -1
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON +1
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +2
SHUN
APPALLING
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
PUNISH_SERIOUS
PUNISH_EXILE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
UNTHINKABLE
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -1
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +1
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE +2
APPALLING
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
PUNISH_SERIOUS
PUNISH_EXILE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
UNTHINKABLE
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
   -1
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -2
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED +2
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +1
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
UNTHINKABLE
APPALLING
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
PUNISH_SERIOUS
PUNISH_EXILE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
   -1
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -2
MISGUIDED
MISGUIDED +2
SHUN
APPALLING
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
UNTHINKABLE
   +1
PUNISH_CAPITAL
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -1
SHUN
SHUN +2
MISGUIDED
APPALLING
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
UNTHINKABLE
   +1
PUNISH_CAPITAL
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -1
APPALLING
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -5
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -3
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
   -2
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
   -1
SHUN
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
PUNISH_SERIOUS
MISGUIDED
PUNISH_EXILE
UNTHINKABLE
   +1
APPALLING +2
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -5
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -3
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
   -2
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
   -1
SHUN
PUNISH_SERIOUS
APPALLING
MISGUIDED
PUNISH_EXILE
UNTHINKABLE
   +1
PUNISH_REPRIMAND +2
PUNISH_SERIOUS
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
      -10
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
      -7
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
      -3
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
   -2
SHUN
APPALLING
PUNISH_EXILE
UNTHINKABLE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
   1
PUNISH_SERIOUS +2
PUNISH_EXILE
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -10
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
   -7
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
   -3
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
   -2
SHUN
APPALLING
PUNISH_SERIOUS
UNTHINKABLE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
   +1
PUNISH_EXILE +2
PUNISH_CAPITAL
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -15
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
   -10
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
   -5
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
   -3
APPALLING
PUNISH_SERIOUS
UNTHINKABLE
PUNISH_EXILE
   +1
PUNISH_CAPITAL +2
UNTHINKABLE
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   -15
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
   -10
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
   -5
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
   -3
SHUN
APPALLING
PUNISH_SERIOUS
PUNISH_EXILE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
   +1
UNTHINKABLE
   +2
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
MISGUIDED -1
SHUN
APPALLING
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
UNTHINKABLE
   -2
PUNISH_SERIOUS -3
PUNISH_EXILE
PUNISH_CAPITAL
   -5
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
PERSONAL_MATTER
ACCEPTABLE
   +1