Favourite religions

[NickGabben]

What are the different leaders' favourite religions? I know Shaka's is Dowism (booh!!) 🤦‍♂️

 

[lymond]

You can find that info in the Civlopedia in-game under each leader. Most would be what you'd expect, but some leaders like Mao and Monty have no fave religion. Wang is Confused.

 

[Fippy]

Wang is Confused.

Especially in AI survivor aka troll

 

[NickGabben]

Sorry, I just wanted to make a bad pun 🙂

But thank you - and you got in one yourself, good to see!

 

[BadAtUsernames]

In all my years playing, I never knew the AI had favourite religions. What does that even mean? What does it affect?

 

[AcaMetis]

I think it makes them more likely (if not certain) to choose those religions when they've given the option of founding one when you've got Choose Religions on. Not a big difference in any event, since the only real difference between religions is what resource doubles the production speed of cathedrals IIRC.

 

[NickGabben]

Here's another groaner: Which classic composer always beelined Bronze working?

Spoiler This guy :

Chopin

 

[ArchGhost]

In all my years playing, I never knew the AI had favourite religions. What does that even mean? What does it affect?

Due to attached techs, it can give them a stronger prevalence to beeline that tech -- especially if they have no self-founded religion of their own yet. It really doesn't mean that much, as Religious AIs are gonna Religion anyway, but technically an AI like Izzy is gonna push harder to Theology, in terms of tech weights, than an AI like Asoka.

Also AIs will work to spread and swap into their favored religion if possible. You won't see this much though unless they found none of them, or found multiple but their favored religion is one of them. Izzy is again, a good example, as she can swap to Christianity after Buddhism with little warning even if she founds both or neither of them.

In practice, turning on Choose Religions would in theory cause less religion-founding tech beelining, especially in the crowd that doesn't normally have Religion as a tech flavor.