I saw in a succession game (don't even know what that is) posted by Sirian that he built a temple in his capital as his first building. Given that a capital generates considerable culture and that any enemy civs near it will be out-cultured already, why invest in a temple so early if there is no unhappiness and most likely no desire for a priest?

I've done it at least twice before, so I could get a Great Prophet sooner (I needed the cash pretty badly).

It's really best not to nitpick one teeny little thing someone does. There is not a single time and/or place for every building, civic, unit etc. If he was playing as a spiritual civ, then that temple could have been the cheapest building available to him, at just 40 hammers. Maybe happiness was a problem because of a lot of food resources but no luxuries.

A succession game is where two or more players play one game of Civ, exchanging the file every twenty turns or so.

Sometimes early on you get a situation where you have already built a few military units and you want to give your city a chance to grow a bit before you build a settler and so you have to build whatever is available. I've had to start a barracks before just because it was the only thing available at that time.

Dunno about what your diffculity you are on, but on Emp level, cities get :mad: at 6 pop if you don't have any lux resources or temple.

As its something to build to give your empire time to grow, let you do a bit of worker actions before you start on another settler or just to wait untill you get a tech.

Dunno about what your diffculity you are on, but on Emp level, cities get :mad: at 6 pop if you don't have any lux resources or temple.

6? It was 4 for the capital and 3 everywhere else in my current Emp. game. Needless to say, I hit that mark in a hurry.

If you only research religious techs, temples may be the only thing you can build!

If you only research religious techs, temples may be the only thing you can build!

You can always build military units...

Buildings have no upkeep cost, units do.