


The way you adopt tenets shapes your Ideology, and tailors it to your needs and goals. These are basically theme-based social policies, and provide different bonuses for the empire. You can then focus on that path by adopting tenets for the chosen Ideology. Choose very carefully - the Ideology will channel the rest of the game for you!īy choosing an Ideology, you choose a path for the continued social development of your civilization. When prompted to choose, you can see the recommended Victory types per each Ideology furthermore you can see all its tenets when you click on its details. Happiness can be strongly affected by ideological interaction, and in fact hamper a nation's development.Įvery civilization has to choose an Ideology when reaching the Modern Era, or after finishing three Factories (annexing or puppeting cities with their Factories intact counts as well). Besides bonuses provided, there are also diplomatic repercussions, especially when empires don't share an Ideology. Ideologies can be conceptualized as large, mutually exclusive social policy trees which affect not only one's own civilization, but also exert pressure on other civilizations. The three Ideologies available were formerly the Industrial Era Social Policies, which have now been expanded with additional content and more interesting gameplay mechanics in order to provide another level of depth in the late game. Ideologies take your society to the next level of social development, when tradition and custom cease to be the means for some additional bonuses for the empire and instead become a kind of a philosophical system which not only organizes your empire's view of the world, but is also able to affect the hearts and minds of common people in other nations. Ideologies are a new end-game concept introduced in the Civilization V: Brave New World expansion pack.

Will you connect to a closer city for a lower payoff and a safer route, choose a longer route with more risk for the bigger payoff, or perhaps point your trade route inward, sending vitally important food and production to the far corners of your own empire?

The number of trade routes increases through the advancement of economics and technologies, the creation of wonders and the unique abilities of your civilization.
