Goody Hut Settler Religion bug

[WilliamOfOrange]

This occurs in Warlords I belive both the normal game and HOF mod

I looked around, but couldn't find this particular bug posted. It happens when you pop a settler from a goody hut. Normally when you found a religion it will be in a city which has no religion yet. If you have 3 cities and found all 7 religions for example, two cities will hhave 2 and one will have 3 religions.

I noticed that if you pop a settler from a hut and settle with him, all religions you found afterwards will be founded in that city. It does not matter if you have other religionless cities.

Here's how to do it:

1. (Optional) Found a religion in your capital

2. Pop a settler from a goody hut

3. Research other religions


Has anyone else seen this?

 

[flamingzaroc121]

there is a formula that i posted around here that tells you how it figures out where the religon goes

Here is the formula for founding of religion:

Value=(10 + Random#(10) + Population of city) / (1 + # of religions in city)
If the city is the captal then the value is divided by 8.

So whichever city has the highest value will found the religion. Most of the time it will be your largest city without a religion.

So you can control it to some extent by whipping the cities you dont want the religion to go to, but like everything else there is a small random element.

 

[WilliamOfOrange]

Thanks a lot. I have been doing some more experimenting and noticed that is has something to do with population as well. How did you come up with this? Did you look it up in the code or just experiment?

EDIT: I thought I had a game where I did whip the population down and they already had 3 religions. When I founded the 7th one my second city had four now and my third city, although slightly smaller only had one. I guess the RNG kicks in to keep things interesting.

My thought of there being a bug came from the fact that my captial was much larger and this newly founded city from a goody hut settler started hogging religions even though it was smaller than other cities. The goody hut city was the second city and a slow growing one, but started to grab all the remaining religions.

 

[WilliamOfOrange]

I was playing quite a bit on the weekend and I am convinced that if you get a settler from a GH before you found your first city there is a higher probability that your religions will be founded in the city founded by the GH settler. There is times were th GH settler founds first or ther original settler does and I don't recall what happens or if there is a difference, but has anyone else experienced this? In my last game a city with mostly hills and therefore smaller in population had 5 religions, while the 3rd city only got one, but was double in size. Weird

 

[flamingzaroc121]

yeah some one else had posted it in a thread and i just got it from there, they looked it up in the python i think