Do you build monastaries?

[slobberinbear]

For me it really depends on the way the game is unfolding. If I am in early war, chances are I don't have meditation for a long time, making the odds of a monastery spam pretty slim. If I am pursuing a religious-based strategy, I will build them in many places, especially if I am going for the various religious wonders that grant bonuses for religious buildings.

In all other situations, I am using them situationally for their culture and research bonus, and build them only after I have a library in the same city.

 

[SillyGoat]

I just finished the NC Augustus on Monarch marathon.
Why do I post that here ?
Explanation follows:
I captured 2 shrinecities, HC buddhist and Zaras Christian, I used all the priests in HC's former capitol to produce me a profet, to set up the Hindu Shrine in Pacals former Residens. So far so good
Then I got sidestepped, by a lot of warring, building etc. and since i was in OR, i just send out a missionary when a whole in the prod occured.
I used a somewhat leftover GS(I had 3 regular GPfarms) to bulb most of Scientific methods, as i wanted to be ahead to get the free Scientist from Physics etc, so, SM was researched in 2 turns
Then I discovered I didnt build ONE single Monastary of ANY religion
I was running free religion and had just taken the punishment of a 6 turns anarchy
So, lesson learned, build at least ONE of each, if you have the shrines, else you are royally screwed later
Just my 2 pennies over and out

If you were facing 6 turns of Anarchy, you would have been better off using the GS for a Golden Age to change civics anarchy free instead of a bulb.

 

[ICNP]

Pretty much in every city if its my main Religion. Non-State religions won't be built unless they are the AP religion.

 

[mrdoe]

Usually, I invest my hammers in monasteries if I have access to three or four religions. With access of seven religions, a boost of 70% is nice in a science city. The only matter is I tend to avoid Scientific Method then to keep these multipliers last long.

Yeah I've seen my research go down 100 bpt at astro and 100 more bpt because of SMeth, it's counterintuitive how learning scientific method lowers your science.