Ideology
Part of the System outputs guide
Ideology is a resource your systems make for your empire. A system has no base ideology. All of it comes from buildings and other bonuses.
Where it goes
- Your empire gains the ideology of all your systems.
- Your dominions add a share of theirs. See Dominion Tax Rate.
What spends it
- Buying lexes and lex slots.
- Hiring Erased and Siderians.
- Liberate, Administer and Abandon. See Administrative Operations.
Buildings that produce ideology
Appeal Potential belongs to the body a building stands on. See Stellar bodies. Local Population counts only that body's population. Population counts the whole system. See housing.
| Building | Built on | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Citadel | Habitable Planets | +3+1,200/h Ideology; +0.15+60/h → +0.6+240/h Ideology per Local Population |
| Floating Gardens | Habitable Planets | +3.75+1,500/h → +30+12,000/h Ideology |
| Network of Artificial Islands | Habitable Planets | +1+400/h → +8+3,200/h Ideology per Appeal Potential |
| Holodome | Barren Planets | +0.3+120/h → +1.5+600/h Ideology per Local Population |
| Monolith | Barren Planets | +0.2+80/h → +2+800/h Ideology per Population |
An effect with an arrow runs from the building's first level to its top level.
Production, credit, technology, ideology and upkeep amounts are per tick.Production, credit, technology, ideology and upkeep amounts are per hour.
Other sources of ideology
A Siderian with the Wisdom skill raises the ideology of the system they govern. The bonus in this table counts once for each Wisdom point.
| Source | Type | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Siderian — Wisdom | Agent skill | +5 % Ideology |
What changes your empire's ideology income
Some lexes and traditions raise or lower your empire's ideology income directly. A lex counts only while it is active.
| Source | Type | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Decentralized Administration | Lex | -50-20,000/h Ideology |
| Second Core | Lex | -150-60,000/h Ideology |
| External Colonies | Lex | -50-20,000/h Ideology |
| Protectorate | Lex | -30-12,000/h Ideology |
| Federation of Protectorates | Lex | -90-36,000/h Ideology |
| Fixer Network | Lex | -5 % Ideology |
| Financialized Society | Lex | -10 % Ideology |
| First Contacts | Lex | +4+1,600/h Ideology |
| Linguistic Unification | Lex | +8+3,200/h Ideology |
| Mass Media | Lex | +20+8,000/h Ideology |
| Stelloliberalized Entertainment | Lex | +15 % Ideology |
| Fake News | Lex | +30 % Ideology |
| Technocracy | Lex | -6 % Ideology |
| Old Houses (Tetrarchy) | Tradition | -5 % Ideology |
| Revolutionary Inspiration (Myrmezir) | Tradition | +2+800/h Ideology |
Production, credit, technology, ideology and upkeep amounts are per tick.Production, credit, technology, ideology and upkeep amounts are per hour.
A Navarch who pillages one of your systems successfully takes ideology from your stock. See siege.