Cult of the Dragon?

[KingOfLands]

I'm not quite clear on the circumstances under which the Cult of the Dragon is founded. I know it can only appear for a Sheaim or Kuriotates (not sure of the last one as I mostly play the former) city, but is there anything I can do to encourage that?

 

[Thonnas]

Build their Dragon Unit.

 

[KingOfLands]

Build their Dragon Unit.

I had assumed that it worked the other way around - that I'd need the Cult before I could. I've got that backwards, then?

 

[BeefontheBone]

You have now - it got switched about a bit a couple of versions ago; the Awaken the Ancients tech used to found it. Building either Abashi or Eurabatres will found the CotD.

 

[MrPopov]

Why was this moved so late in the game? By the time you get to this tech, the religion spread will likely make no difference.

Was it too powerful before?

 

[MagisterCultuum]

The Dragons no longer require the religious holy city (the first of them to be built causes the city that build it to become the holy city) and they both start with evangelism, so any city they conquer will gain the religion. Also, the spread rate has been increased.

I never really noticed it causing any problems before. It is probably stronger this way (although the negative side effects need to be increased more) since you can choose where to put the holy city and both dragons can be built.

I still think that the religion should be introduced at the appearance of Acheron, but the holy cities should be assigned later at the creation of Abashi/Eurabatres.