In a recent game playing as Charlemagne I got a religious building hammer bonus, 2 hammers for every religious building of every religion, not just the state religion.

Alas I didn't take a screen dump. Is this due to a random event? I am a bit impatient with the enter key button so I quite often miss popups. I haven't seen it in any other games and I play quite a lot.

Has anyone else come across it?

Gus

Apostolic palace gives 2 hammers to every religious building of that religion in the map... if it is giving to more than one it is a bug.

can you post a screensave?

Ah maybe that was it. Could it be that I was running free religion when the AP completed? Perhaps I remember it incorrectly and it was only the state religion. I don't have the saves anymore and can't provide a screen shot.

That makes religious building quite powerful. I never used to bother with monasteries and cathedrals. But with two extra hammers and the university going from 50% to 25% science a monastery becomes very useful.

I suppose it also means that controlling the AP and not spreading your state religion becomes a handy tactic. The downside though is that the AI hates your guts.

I also wondered about it, what the cause was, but I'm definitely using it! Even temples have the bonus two hammers.

In my game actually (multiplayer hot seat), the other human player completed the AP, while an AI player discovered the religion both us human player had.

Now the other human player has switched to Free Religion, while I still have Organized Religion, and I still get the two-hammer-bonus, while I don't 'own' the religion, nor the AP!!

AP gives the bonus to AP religion buildings regardless of you own the AP or not, or you have that religion as state religion (that means, the AI gets that bonus too).