Recent content by Dharmaserf

Oh sorry! It must be a mod then. My apologies.

Alirght. So confirmed that this must be a bug. I waited 90 turns, for the trade to have Assyria abandon his Vassals to complete, and nothing. The Mongols are still their vassal. Looks like I will have to declare on Assyria. Let's see how many friends I lose. heh.

I seem to have hit on something that is really putting a damper on my strategy. I've traded Assyria to release their vassals. Their vassal is Genghis Khan. The world hates Genghis, and his capital has two aluminum fields worth 20, while I have none. I want it. Sadly, I am friends with Assyria...

I have an idea for the icon you use. I know you probably spent some work on the trillium icon, but as a Canadian, it seems a little foreign and not really reflective of Canadian nationalism. I'd suggest replace the gold trillium with just a white maple leaf. It would be very intuitive to a Canadian.

Hi. I'm playing AND, and I'm a little confused on how guilds work. I vaguely remember perhaps creating a Servant's Guild Hall, but now I can't find it--so maybe it was a figment of my imagination. I've got guilds from conquered cities spreading, but I can build Guild Halls and Mason's Guild...

I have a few ideas too... "One thing I'd always considered for the Civ4 RoM (or possibly a different Civ4 mod, since it could be very controversial and game changing) was seeing more of the technologies that *could* have developed in the past but were abandoned for some reason or another."...

Ok, I like where this is going. Here are my thoughts. The base integer is 0, which means no spread and no fade. Negative integers increases the chance of the fading of a religion, Positive integers increase the chance of spreading of religion. Two religious spread integer matrices are...

The problem with this is that it makes it seem arbitrary, as in these figures just popped out at these times for no reason. In fact, there are many reasons for these religions popping up at the time they do in their context. For Buddhism and Jainism they arose in a period of great social...

I also think, in regards to religion fading, that if implement an atheism or secularism as a religion, that this might actually do most of the work for us, and we can spend less time on the premodern calculations for the fading of religion. Also: 16) Major socio-political and economic...

I could see this... something akin to how religion spreads now. Make it a spectrum as opposed to just having religion spread as it does now. I wonder about this. I like it, but then how does that work with how religion also spreads? Perhaps we need a formula. At a certain point (not a point in...

Yes, actually, I am a professor of Eastern Religions. And sorry for the overwhelming posts. I figured to do the particular religions justice, I'd have to explore the historical data and use that for developing Civ concepts and ideas. As for all the preliminary stuff in the first post Afforess...

Jainism Jainism has its roots in the Shramanic period of Indian history alongside Buddhism, Ajivikas (fatalists), and the Carvakas (materialists). Jainism has for a while now traced its roots back to a time before this. Scholarly research shows some evidence for this claim. As such, it should...

Oh, ok. Makes sense. Thanks.

This was the first time I tried it. I only found out about it yesterday. Interesting point about it being cheating, though. The AI doesn't do it, do they?

Jainism and Sikhism are interesting prospective religions to add. Jainism and Buddhism were the two most dominant religious traditions during the period between the Shramanas (8th-4th BCE) and the Classical Period. And while Buddhism died out in India, Jainism remained influential. It also was...