Can you control where a religion is founded?
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kochman
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BINGO!Move your capital to the holy city
I either do this, or (more often) build Forbidden Palace/Versaille in the religious city, couple that with Wall Street... found Civilized Jeweler's there and spread it to all the other civs before you spread it to your own cities (so they will start spreading if for you too)... then spread it to all your cities...
Cha-ching!
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
Once, I captured Thebes from Ramssess, and it was a double holy-city, and had both shrines. I made it my Corp HQ and Wall Street. It was also surrounded by floodplains.
Needless to say I kept it, even if it was 1 tile off the coast.
Extreme good luck.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it extreme good luck. All else being equal, two cities that have the same number of religions, regardless of holy city or shrines, have the same chance of getting the holy city for a new religion. Even if you already have 5 cities and 1 religion which you've already spread around (where the holy city is not the capital), if you found another religion there's a 25% chance of getting a "double-holy" city. That is assuming all cities are equal size (ignoring the capital); if the shrine city is bigger than the others then it's better than 25% odds.
GravityWave
Deposed Emperor
Same here. If it looks like I can get a couple of religions relatively quickly I usually build settlers, but don't settle them unless I have to so I can have all the religions being founded in the capital, or second city. Its a bit risky, but its a risk worth taking imho because of the gold you can eventually make.
Regardless of what the odds actually are, the occurance is very rare. I've only had it happen to me a couple of times, if that, in all the years I've been playing. I can only be sure of one occasion of it happening to me frankly.
Well that's just getting foolish IMO. If you play normally than it's going to happen extremely rarely.
It happens to me all the time. Usually when I do happen to found a religion (e.g. Taoism or Confucianism), if I had a holy city already I'd have probably spread that round to all my cities already and the existing holy city would probably be one of my bigger cities, especially if it's trying to get a market or grocer etc.
The rarity of it happening to you is probably more based on the fact you don't found more than one religion very often or if you do you don't bother to spread them very quickly. That or you could be biased by the huge negative factor applied to the capital, so whenever you found a religion in the capital you'll never get one found there again. This means at least two of the religions will probably never see another religion founded in their holy city (the two religions that pretty much have to be founded with the capital only).
In one of my recent MP games I founded both Confucianism and Christianity in my GP farm. I already had many cities by that time but the reason that city got both was almost certainly thanks to its high population and having no more religions than any other city. It was not extreme good luck - it was the most likely city to get the second religion founded.
That maybe so. Usually if I have two religions it's because I started with Buddhism then later grabbed Confucianism, more by accident than anything else. If I don't start with Mysticism, then I'll go for Confucianism and leave it at that. For a long time I was also using a mod that only allowed a civ to found 1 religion as well. Unfortunately it became incompatible with one of the more recent versions of BUG, otherwise I'd still be using it.
