Buffs the Spiritual trait

[Ilysen]

Summary

SUMMARY: Balance "The Spiritual trait has received a significant buff."

Purpose of change

Spiritual is a bit of a weird trait. In its current state, it's almost a bad thing to take because of how many side interactions it has, what with making you revile so many things such as butchering humans, and soon, gravedigging. On top of that, Bookworm makes it nearly irrelevant, by adding +1 to the fun of all books.

Usually, it wouldn't be so bad, but every holy book only has 1 fun value anyway. Thus, the tripled fun value of holy books doesn't mean anything; they only give +3 fun, which is irrelevant when Bookworm gives most novels +4 or +5 -and- appears to nullify the rereading penalty.

Describe the solution

Rather than tripling the fun value of holy books, Spiritual now adds +1 to its fun value, then triples it. This means holy books will have a fun value of +6 instead of the +3 they currently have.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Making holy books more fun. Because each faith is represented equally in Cataclysm, it seemed like a silly idea to buff some without others, but bumping every holy book to +2 fun would accomplish the same buff equally.

Additional context

The highest possible fun value you can get from a book by combining Bookworm and Spiritual comes from Visions of Solitude, found only in prisons, with a base fun value of +2. Combined with the flat +1 increase of Bookworm and new Spiritual, the tripled number thus gives a fun value of +12. I thought that it made contextual sense, but I'm fine with putting a hard cap on the amount to, say, +8.

[kevingranade]

Spiritual doesnt need a buff, it already gives morale boosts from several sources for just one point. It's already much better than bookworm.

[Ilysen]

Like what? I haven't found them, even having played Spiritual characters. All I can find through GIt syntax search besides the holy books is hallucinogenic food and meditating - one of which only lasts two hours, and the other of which is a tiny boost. On the contrary, killing innocents(?), butchering humans, eating human flesh, and soon gravedigging all massively impact your morale much more with Spiritual. The lack of apparent upsides is why I made this PR.

Edit: I went and properly searched through all the code. Despite the different messages, Spiritual doesn't actually appear to further impact morale from cannibalism and butchery, but the only places that it gains a morale boost are from books and from hallucinogenic foods like datura. I personally think that Bookworm is much stronger and that this buff is fine, but if you disagree, I'm fine with discussing it.

[I-am-Erk]

Wearing spiritual clothing also gives you a morale buff.

[Ilysen]

That doesn't appear to be the case. To make sure I wasn't going insane, I tested that on this PR's build with the following items:


But this didn't appear to affect my morale in any way.