Holy Cities

[peanut35]

When you are the first to discover a new religion (or the first to research the tech associated with that religion) you gain the Holy City. This is done arbitrarily. Does anyone know if a structure goes up when the Holy City is founded? I seem to recall an article mentioning that a Great Person could rush a temple or shrine, yes i think it was shrine, associated with that religion. I also think that in the Pre-release info there was a section that put the shrines as Small Wonders. Does this mean all civs can get the shrines? Or is it much more restricting and only the Holy City can build the shrine. I don't know if there has been any info on this, but i thought i would put it out there.

 

[JavalTigar]

They probably made it a small wonder with some type of restriction like (must be first to discover technology & control over Holy City for religion ‘X’). That way you can only make missionaries from that location. Kind of like the military academy and armies relationship from C3C. Missionaries seem like they are going to be powerful units, so you don’t want every city being able to crank them out.

“At least that’s my opinion, I could be wrong.”

 

[Invisible Rhino]

I got the impression that the shrine was something you had to build seperately.