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How about a great philosopher unit to go along with a socio-political 'philosophy' civic? Like I said, I do think it's important to recognize the many secular philosophies that have influenced society over the centuries, I do not think that such representation needs to be done using...

True, but the inherent problem with adding Stone Age "technology" is that Stone Age mankind was so primitive it's hard to imagine them building cities and whatnot. Going back to stone age in Civ terms, you would essentially have some warriors roaming the country side killing animals and...

Did you just say that Democracy is not as widely practiced as Communism? I'm having a lot of difficulty trying to figure out what your point in all of that was. Who sets this criteria for size or enlightenment? What does 10 people have to do with anything? Not all religious movements are...

This is circumstantial and self-fulfilling. Essentially what you are saying is if you bridge enough references together you can connect two divergent concepts. First off, you have to draw the line somewhere. If we follow that reasoning far enough we could say that Starbucks is my temple, my...

You are absolutely correct that many in the upper levels of Roman society did not believe in an afterlife. However, that's a personal interpretation of the religion, not the official dogma of the priests. The pantheon of gods worshiped by the majority of Romans clearly believed in an...

I get what you're saying but what I'm trying to say is that of course there are people who believe that, but they aren't religious people. Likewise, philosophical systems that do not seek to provide spiritual or divine answers are not religions. A fine example is "Satanism". There are...

First off, let me just say this is a fantastic discussion. I see where you're coming from but I really don't think you have to worry about separating religion & philosophy. Although there is actually no single definition for "religion", my copy of Websters calls it "any specific...

EDIT - ignore this post, i misread something and replied in error

@ Nihilism - I don't think this is a good thing to bring into the religious fold. Remember that Nihilism also describes a philosophy in which existence itself is meaningless and morality does not exist. These philosophies are more commonly associated with the deconstruction of religions, not...

Sorry, double post I know. Sort of. You found your very first religion. Immediately, two of the columns are completely available, Message & Afterlife. You can change message as you change any other civic, much like how the Christian faith preached piety in it's early days, conquest and...

I only briefly touched on this in the other thread. Ideas... Netherworld - Sounds good Underworld - Like it Based on Manner of Death - Not so sure about this one. Good idea, yes but if you look closely enough, you'll find that almost every religion contains some exceptions...

I mentioned this in the 2.6 feature discussion but I suppose this would be a better place for it since it does cause a functional problem in a way... Would it be possible to add a horizontal scroll bar to the glance page of the foreign adviser? After a certain amount of civs you can't see...

Cool!! These all sound really good, I'll see if I can come up with more. Got a couple busy days of work but then vaca :) so I should have plenty of time to come up with some stuff.

Perhaps the idea of military doctrine could be added to the Military adviser screen. much like sit-rep and strategic advantages were. This way, we don't have to sacrifice any of the existing civics to add it. I very much like the idea of being able to customize your armed forces to...

Here is the current rough draft.... ***Note that ideally, the "rebelliousness" discussed in this post is intended to be separate from political rebelliousness. Structure - How is the religion organized from a logistical perspective? What is the primary focal point of the faith? -...