No production bonus for AP religion buildings if converted after AP was built

If you convert to the Apostolic Palace religion after the Palace was built, you will not receive a production bonus for that religion's buildings. You have to convert before it is built to receive the bonus.


I've attached a save to demonstrate this. It is from a hotseat advanced start game I created specifically to test this. (The game in which I encountered the problem was a multiplayer team game in which an ally built the AP, which I thought might convolute things too much.)

The scenario: You are Cyrus, and "a civilian" is about to build the AP under Taoism. You can skip a civilian's and Asoka's turns.

Wait one turn (the AP will finish) and then convert to Taoism. You will now find that the Taoist buildings do not grant any hammers, even though the victory conditions screen shows you as a full member.

As a check, you can reload the save and convert to Taoism before the AP is completed. You will then correctly receive the +2 hammers from Taoist buildings.

From what I recall of a recent LAN game where this happened, your existing cities with that faith don't gain the hammers for current/future buildings after you convert. However, if you then spread the faith to another city of yours, it's buildings will have the +2 hammers on each building.

If this is true, a very major bug. Can mods please confirm and mark this bug?

EDIT: I tried the save game and i observed that the temples that ara built before the AP does not give +2 hammer bonus even if you switch religion to AP religion after AP has been built. This should be a bug.

Chedric said:

From what I recall of a recent LAN game where this happened, your existing cities with that faith don't gain the hammers for current/future buildings after you convert. However, if you then spread the faith to another city of yours, it's buildings will have the +2 hammers on each building.

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Hmm...

I'm pretty sure that in the game in which I encountered this, the AP's religion had not yet spread to any of my cities at the time it was built. (They already had other religions, if that matters.)

I don't have time right now to test this further, unfortunately.

a_civilian said:

If you convert to the Apostolic Palace religion after the Palace was built, you will not receive a production bonus for that religion's buildings. You have to convert before it is built to receive the bonus.

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Same experience here. Link to my game saved file thread:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=5774140&posted=1#post5774140