Any way to eliminate religion from game?

mrmike1949 · Jun 29, 2015

I know that if start is Industrial or later, no religion, but I want to start Ancient,and have no religion. I thought I remembered a post that mentioned something in the config file, but I can't find it

historix69 · Jun 29, 2015

You can look for "MaxActiveReligions" in CIV5Worlds.xml.

mrmike1949 · Jun 29, 2015

and set to 0 i assume

thnx

mrmike1949 · Jun 29, 2015

don't see that variable in civ5world

mrmike1949 · Jun 29, 2015

never mind, found the file under DLC

reddishrecue · Jun 29, 2015

Leave the number converted cities to zero i guess.

LeeS · Jun 29, 2015

For BNW:

In this file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\assets\DLC\Expansion2\Gameplay\XML\GameInfo\CIV5GameOptions_Inherited_Expansion2.xml

Change this:

Code:

<GameData>
	<!-- Table data -->
	<GameOptions>
		<InsertOrAbort>
			<Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_RELIGION</Type>
			<Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION</Description>
			<Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION_HELP</Help>
			<Visible>0</Visible>
		</InsertOrAbort>
    <InsertOrAbort>
      <Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Type>
      <Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Description>
      <Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE_HELP</Help>
    </InsertOrAbort>
  </GameOptions>
</GameData>

To This:

Code:

<GameData>
	<!-- Table data -->
	<GameOptions>
		<InsertOrAbort>
			<Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_RELIGION</Type>
			<Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION</Description>
			<Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION_HELP</Help>
			<Visible>[b][color="blue"]1[/color][/b]</Visible>
		</InsertOrAbort>
    <InsertOrAbort>
      <Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Type>
      <Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Description>
      <Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE_HELP</Help>
    </InsertOrAbort>
  </GameOptions>
</GameData>

For G&K:

In this file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\assets\DLC\Expansion\Gameplay\XML\GameInfo\CIV5GameOptions_Expansion.xml

Change this:

Code:

<GameData>
	<!-- Table data -->
	<GameOptions>
		<Row>
			<Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_RELIGION</Type>
			<Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION</Description>
			<Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION_HELP</Help>
			<Visible>0</Visible>
		</Row>
    <Row>
      <Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Type>
      <Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Description>
      <Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE_HELP</Help>
    </Row>
  </GameOptions>
</GameData>

To This:

Code:

<GameData>
	<!-- Table data -->
	<GameOptions>
		<Row>
			<Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_RELIGION</Type>
			<Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION</Description>
			<Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION_HELP</Help>
			<Visible>[b][color="blue"]1[/color][/b]</Visible>
		</Row>
    <Row>
      <Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Type>
      <Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE</Description>
      <Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_ESPIONAGE_HELP</Help>
    </Row>
  </GameOptions>
</GameData>

You only need to change one or the other depending on which expansion you have.

This should allow this choice to show up in the non-modded Advanced Game Set-Up menu.

historix69 · Jun 29, 2015

No religion usually means : less happiness, less culture, less faith to buy GPs late game

LeeS · Jun 29, 2015

Yeah...It probably is not a good option to use in BNW or G&K for pre-Industrial starts. But at least the way I suggested would make it a game set-up option rather than a hard-disable.

mrmike1949 · Jun 29, 2015

LeeS
tried that method, selected "No Religion" in set-up, have message "Religion: OFF" at top of screen on resource bar, and 2 civs have created religions!!! Note that I also set "MaxActiveReligions" to zero, and I also found the file that controlled no religion for Industrial or later start, and modified it to be the same for Ancient - > Industrial.

Don't understand what's going on, although I do note that I haven't yet seen and missionaries or great prophets

Nares · Jun 29, 2015

mrmike1949 said:
Don't understand what's going on, although I do note that I haven't yet seen and missionaries of great prophets

It could be that the option only applies to the human player.

You could go through the lengthy process of completely removing religion and faith generation by developing a mod which adjusts every source of faith.

joncnunn · Jun 29, 2015

Moderator Action: Moved to Creation & Customization

LeeS · Jun 29, 2015

Well I just played through 40 turns at King and didn't see any notifications about Pantheons being founded or anything. And even though the game still allows the construction of Shrines, they don't do anything except take up gold in maintenance with Religion disabled. Religion overview is completely turned off. Problem is that even though you can turn religion off from the ancient era the game is not really well-adjusted for that -- lots of 'stuff' that you would think would go bye-bye along with selecting the Gameplay Option do not go byebye.

mrmike1949 · Jun 30, 2015

update:it is very strange: Denmark has a religion, it is spreading to nearby cities, no missionaries or gps, when I mouse over their capital city, no religion status pops out. SO I guess religion is 98% eliminated!???!?!

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