Holy City!

[Drix]

Does anyone know what inluences where a religeon's holy city is based when you found a new one?
Obviously it's good to have in a commercial city so that you can rake in the cash when you get the Great Prophet to build the shrine.

Anyone got any clues or is it completely random?

 

[oranges]

I think someone presented concrete data once, but no longer have any idea what thread that might be. Basically, the larger cities wihtout a religion present are chosen.

 

[Stoney the I]

i read that thread, and it did say larger cities are favored.

in addition and more important, a city without religion is chosen more often, which is why its usually the most far away, crappy, small, useless bordertown that gets the new religion.

in light of this, i tend to spread the current religion to all cities of mine before popping the new religion so it DOES go to the largest city.

 

[Genv [FP]]

The holy city will always be THAT city on a deserted little island at 1 pop.

 

[Davor]

For me when I founded all religions once, (keep trying but can't do it anymore) it seems to go to first the Capital city. Then if you have no cities keeps going to the capital city. If you have other cities, it goes to a city that dosn't have a founded religion. I believe the bigist pop but no proof of it.

Once it has a founded religion and you get anthour one, the next largest pop city without founded religion gets it. I have no proof, but that is what it seems to me.

 

[Rhyshaelkan]

I thought it was whichever city actually acquires the tech.

As each city adds its flasks to the researched tech each turn. The city that finally pushes it over the edge(completes) is the city where the religion is founded.

Might have to test this to be sure. If this is the case though. Then you could manipulate which of your cities the religion will be founded in. Very useful if you would like to combine your shrine/corp/Wallstreet in one city.

 

[Davor]

I am very leary of biggist pop but never really paid attetion to it. I know for a fact if I have 5 cities, each time I founded a religion it went to a different city each time. The only time a city will have more than one founded religion is if it's your only city.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Here are some threads you might find interesting on this subject:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=237869
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=4668031#post4668031
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=5936562&postcount=5

Essentially, you want a high population city without religions or the palace present. And some luck.

 

[Polobo]

I thought it was whichever city actually acquires the tech.

As each city adds its flasks to the researched tech each turn. The city that finally pushes it over the edge(completes) is the city where the religion is founded.

Might have to test this to be sure. If this is the case though. Then you could manipulate which of your cities the religion will be founded in. Very useful if you would like to combine your shrine/corp/Wallstreet in one city.

Have fun testing but this is quite unlikely and I've never heard such a mechanic being in use before.

As for manipulation; aside from founding multiple religions you DO get to decide where you found your corporation and build Wall Street so having them all in the same city is easy to accomplish. Having them in the desired city is more difficult and pretty much impossible.

I am pretty sure that aforementioned article states that the capital is given a large negative chance so if you have two or more cities and none of them have a religion the capital will not be chosen. Aside from that I do not recall.

Realistically, I don't worry about it (then again I don't focus on trying to found religions generally) since manipulating my cities for that goals seems overly micromanagey.

 

[kaos429]

I have noticed that if you do not have a state religion and you have more than one city when you discover the tech. That religion is never established in your capital but in the 2nd or 3rd, etc city you built, and is typically assigned to the nearest city in term of maitenance costs. This 2nd observation is from games I have played, not real testing on my part.

 

[Woody1]

From my tests,

(1) It never is established in your capital, unless that is your only city.

(2) It favors cities with the fewest established religions. (This doesn't always happen, but it usually happens.)

(3) It favors large cities. (Again, isn't always the case, and seems to be the least important factor.)