Recent content by Syphax

Thanks. I am playing BTS with Revolutions Tectonics and there was is this vast area of mostly hills with a few forested hills and plains between my first 2 cities that I dug up seeing if there was any resources there but not worth building otherwise. Sounds like it was a waste of time (and a...

Are new resource discoveries from mines discovered when a mine is created (even if not visible until later) or are they only discoverable while a mine is being worked (somewhere I saw a suggestion this was some small % chance each turn)? In other words, should I have prospectors dig up hilly...

Thanks for the replies. The priest strategy sounds interesting internally - but it sounds like there's no proactive way to spread it to other players without open borders. The reason I'd like to do it is both trying to avoid the different religion penalties as well as the role play aspect.

I got Civ4 for FFH and really like the great differences in civilizations and religions. I've searched the forum and haven't found an answer to my question of how exactly religion spreads by itself in FFH and different methods to encourage or discourage it. A specific question is whether it...