Eusebius said:
Thank you so much for the great info and ideas! You give a lot of helpful detail about subjects I don't know well. I am definitely going to consider this for future releases.
We have a dual role as modders--to add detail (and fun), but to work within the constraints of CIV IV. The problem with making three kinds of Buddhism (or two kinds of Confucianism) is that the diplomacy engine will treat them as entirely different religions. Therefore, we shouldn't do this unless the religions have a history of conflict (like Protestant Christians and Catholic Christians). Is that the case here?
BTW, The original "Christianity" is essentially Orthodox, with both Catholics and Protestants as break-aways.
Eusebius
May I suggest a bit more?
I think that it could possiblely split sunni and shia because
1) Except Kabah rock and Koran, Their dogma and political idea of this two are in vandetta against each others and treat each other as different religion.(Sunni condamn shia pagan while shia condamn sunni were forsaken the true leader.)
2) In history, Both sunni and shia see each other as worst enemy, worse than the crusader of the west. Such as during ottoman empire, the only religion that they never tolelant with is Shia.
3) Their history of intorelant still continue without any solution (unlike between Catholic and Protestant that have Treaty of Westphalia that force them accept each other existance.)
4) Even they both look similar by cultural tie but main reason of their sympathy of each other nowadays because they both feel that now they have the same enemy who never discriminate that what is sunni and what is
shia.
Solution to split it in CIV4 is when Shrine of Imam Raza, it will autometicly build Shrine of Shia the same city of Kabah rock(shia shrine act as expansion of Islam shrine)(Kabah Rock should be the name of Shrine of Islam not Dome of the Rock which should be seperated wonders)
I think that other religion should have their special wonders especially religions those have stat inferior than another and prevent any player with advance in technology to monopolizing the wonder
some wonder should move from general wonders to be religious specific wonders
list of wonders that could suggest to move or add to religious wonders
Forbidden palace (confucianism)
Spiral Mineret (Islam)
J.C. Bach Cathedral (modern catholic)
Protestant's Work Ethic (Protestant) (project)
Teotihuacan (mesoamerican)
Chichen Iza (mesoamerican)
Machu Picchu (mesoamerican)
Toledo translation school (catholic)
Gutenberg's Bible (catholic) (project that hurt you short term but help you in long run)
Society of Jesus(Order of Jesuit) (catholic) (randomly convert random amount of peoples in any city else where in the world every turn until it expired)
Sakti Cult (hinduism) (popular cult of goddress worship that believe the goddress consort is more powerful than god that effect to catch attention of believer especially women) (in order to access all market, hinduism provide a varity of product that catch different groups in society which really different to all others modern religion.)
Dercarte's Theology school (modern catholic) (reduce scientific plenalty for modern catholism) (Dercarte is the materialism philosopher who teach in theology school that looking for place of the ulitmate in sciences for catholism theology. His philosophy influence most of later thinkers and scientists in the west.)
Library of Bagdad (Islam)
Statue of Zeus (hellenism)
Olympic game (hellenism) (project)
Academy & Lyceum (hellenism)
etc.
I heard that Fall from Heaven mod can catagorized several religions in mod into groups of many good and many evil that effect diplomacy(I still doesn't play it) perhap you should explore their file for detail