KillerClowns
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With the College of Theology implemented, it is suddenly in the Dural's best interests to have as many religions as possible in their cities. But religious techs are expensive and, since the Dural can't build temples anyways, mostly unnecessary unless they're founding them. Meanwhile, religions themselves can't always be relied on to spread to themselves.
I'm thinking the Dural could have a UU, "Student" (may need a better name), that starts with no religion and cannot attack. Instead, it can go to a foreign city, pick up any of the religions present in that city via an ability, and then gain that religion. It should be barred from spreading religions to foreign cities, so it can only take learn religions from others and bring them to the Dural.
For instance, let's say you have the Empyrean and FoL, and your Bannor neighbors have the Order. Rather than waiting for the Bannor to send a disciple, or for the Order to spread by itself, you could send a Student to learn the Order religion, then bring him home and have him spread it to your cities like an Acolyte.
Ideally, the Student would be able to ignore borders so you could pry, say, the Ashen Veil out of your somewhat ill-tempered demon-worshiping neighbors, but only if there's a way to keep the Student from spreading its learned religion to foreign cities. A disciple who ignores borders could be problematic to balance with regards to religious victories.
I'm thinking the Dural could have a UU, "Student" (may need a better name), that starts with no religion and cannot attack. Instead, it can go to a foreign city, pick up any of the religions present in that city via an ability, and then gain that religion. It should be barred from spreading religions to foreign cities, so it can only take learn religions from others and bring them to the Dural.
For instance, let's say you have the Empyrean and FoL, and your Bannor neighbors have the Order. Rather than waiting for the Bannor to send a disciple, or for the Order to spread by itself, you could send a Student to learn the Order religion, then bring him home and have him spread it to your cities like an Acolyte.
Ideally, the Student would be able to ignore borders so you could pry, say, the Ashen Veil out of your somewhat ill-tempered demon-worshiping neighbors, but only if there's a way to keep the Student from spreading its learned religion to foreign cities. A disciple who ignores borders could be problematic to balance with regards to religious victories.