os79
Deity
Due to my low vision, i prefer Subjugation icon is best.
You played Stone Age too, Vokarya? El Trituradors mod was my absolute favourite, besides RoM, of course.
Atheism really needs some more downsides to it. Maybe have the positive stability turned into negative stability?
I have always assumed it was meant to be a bit of a bonus for a civ that has failed to get any religions. So in this case the downside is to have been backward and/or isolated and also having had no access to the advantages of having a religion for the rest of the game. It seems to me that the -1 happy per religion is enough to put one off this civic if you have been exposed to religion spread. Do you think it is worth going for even if you do have multiple religions?
I always felt like it was worth it even if you had three of four religons in a city. +20% science and gold is such a huge bonus at that point that you can easily make up for the lower population. Coupled with the fact that the AI avoids the civic because of the happiness penalty, and a player running it could quickly outclass everyone if they were remotely close to them before.
That depends on who's using it. If you're using it, other religious civs will think you're an unbeliever. That's perfectly normal. If you say that some other civ running secular calls you an unbeliever, that's a problem. But it shouldn't happen AFAIK. Is this what's happening to you?Secular civic should (I hate that word) nullify " We do not do business with unbelievers" or else change the civic description that describes religious tolerance.
Would it be possible to make the Atheism civic make religion decay - as the mod option does.
That would not make the Civic weaker BUT an Atheist society would, over time lose more and more of the benefits that religious buildings would bring...