Idea: Create a religion

[sonofkong]

I personally believe that religion should be in the next game but I am against the grand list of them so I had the idea that you could create your own and found it.
As a bonus you could even snowall some ideas right now.

 

[Inspector Javert]

I don't know it's an interesting idea but I don't really know how it could be implemented. Creating a religion would also take away from the "flavor" of the game. I'd rather build Buddhist Stupa's rather than <religion adjective> cathedrals. Or worse <religion adjective> <cathedral name>. Not to mention the fact that we'll end up with a large amount of people using that feature to make religions centered on dirty words.

 

[Terrance888]

Vorthonism: Based on the worship of the Almighty Vorthon and is Triumphs against the Specters of Decay and his enemies the Gods of Chaos.
Temples/Monastries +1 hammer

Vorthon Temple
Vorthon Monastry
The Breath of Vorthon (Cathedral +2 hammer +1 engineer: it is a mechanical cathedral. Look in link)

Vorthonic Missionary.
Vorthonic Fanatic.
All mighty Vorthon!
Symbol would be the sun rising behind a pyramid.

 

[Link]

I could found the Church of Sid Meier.

 

[En_Dotter]

Id rather insert more religions. Or possibility to separate an existing religion like Orthodox and Roman-Catholic Christianity and similar for others. Im not rly into world religions to much but im sure other religions, if not all, then most have the same or similar separations in history.

 

[em jay]

If they were going to have each civ create its own religion, then I would prefer them to have real religions, so Greece would have the Hellenic gods, the Egyptions under whatever their gods are known as, and each civ having its own religion. The religions in cIV can still be included, but they'll each be tied to a civ. Thn you have to sprea your own religion to other civs and try and convert then to your religion. This could lead to the introduction of a religious victory, where your civs religion is in 80% of cities, like in LoR.

 

[Centurio]

I want Unitarian Universalism! I demand that my people be represented...

all two hundred of us!

No, but really it would be nice to see religions like Zoroastrianism or Precolumbian American polytheism in the game.

 

[da dick]

i guess being able to create something wonky like russian-jewish neo-nazism might be funny... for like 10 seconds until my FSM associates mindrape me.

 

[Ramesses]

I think the Social Policies system is aiming to do something like this.

 

[Seaman Sample]

I think the option of creating your own religion, so to speak, would have an adverse effect on the gameplay and thus, lead to more micro-management later on in the game.