How Can One City Be The Holy City For Two Religions?

Cicerosaurus · Jul 8, 2013

The city is Addis Ababa.

It is the Holy City for Christianity (Ethiopia) and also for Shinto (Rome).

The Romans captured the city pretty early in the game, possibly after Ethiopia founded Christianity and possibly before Roman founded Shinto.

However, wouldn't the Holy City for Shinto still be Rome?

Viregel · Jul 8, 2013

It's possible (although unlikely) that Rome founded Shinto in Addis Ababa after they captured it.

pilot00 · Jul 8, 2013

Yep, its odd though, perhaps there was something that prompted the Roman prophet to be born in that city and the AI expended him there. An odd case to be sure.

I wonder what will happen if a rival prophet converts it. Will it regain both Holy city statuses? Which religion in the city has the most followers and pressure?

Cicerosaurus · Jul 8, 2013

Well it got a little weirder as Polynesia captured Addis Ababa and thus had two holy cities (they had Islam in Honolulu) and three religions.

To complete the weird I did send a great Prophet and converted Addis Ababa to Judaism.

nanomage · Jul 8, 2013

What happens if your capture an unused GP while not having a religion? Do you have an option to found another one? If you do, then that's what happenned.

pilot00 · Jul 8, 2013

nanomage said:
What happens if your capture an unused GP while not having a religion? Do you have an option to found another one? If you do, then that's what happenned.

That would probably be a possibility as well.

budweiser · Jul 8, 2013

So that's how you do it. I've been wondering all this time.

Sincro · Jul 8, 2013

That's probably what happened, as far as capturing goes. To answer the OPs final question, the holy city for the religion is wherever the GP is when the religion is founded. Some players will deliberately move their GP away from their capital so that establishing an embassy doesn't give the AI the location of your holy city, since the AI will target the holy city for conversion once it knows where it is.

-S

thegingerninja · Jul 9, 2013

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