Indulgences: +1 Faith/10g, faith spend > 10% gold/prod
I think its that the hammers from this are flat hammers which get affected by various modifiers for example expertise (+15% prod buildings).
I bought with faith equal to a public school hammer cost (think it was 1200 hammers ie 12 000 faith) but got twice the hammers, not 100% sure all calculations are correct here.
Anyway with the huge faith pump Aztec, god of war, hero worship and teocallis faith buy was very op once the ball was rolling, end game (late industrial) I purchased a great writer for 32000 > 3200 hammers.
Not only does the huge amount of faith allow almost free wonder spam the crazy amount of gold (note Aztec also get gold/kill) also make city production skyrocket from purchases.
Having to constantly buy inquisitors to keep indias religion in check was tedious but doable and purchase of the inquisitors of course also yields hammers+gold.
I also helped some cs faith buying ranged units which is faith > hammer+gold+cs influence.
Without doing any maths my gut feeling is that despite +1 Faith/10g is rather useless Indulgences was far better than Gurukulam because hammers make things snowball (I did have a more extreme faith pump in this game).
I think its that the hammers from this are flat hammers which get affected by various modifiers for example expertise (+15% prod buildings).
I bought with faith equal to a public school hammer cost (think it was 1200 hammers ie 12 000 faith) but got twice the hammers, not 100% sure all calculations are correct here.
Anyway with the huge faith pump Aztec, god of war, hero worship and teocallis faith buy was very op once the ball was rolling, end game (late industrial) I purchased a great writer for 32000 > 3200 hammers.
Not only does the huge amount of faith allow almost free wonder spam the crazy amount of gold (note Aztec also get gold/kill) also make city production skyrocket from purchases.
Having to constantly buy inquisitors to keep indias religion in check was tedious but doable and purchase of the inquisitors of course also yields hammers+gold.
I also helped some cs faith buying ranged units which is faith > hammer+gold+cs influence.
Without doing any maths my gut feeling is that despite +1 Faith/10g is rather useless Indulgences was far better than Gurukulam because hammers make things snowball (I did have a more extreme faith pump in this game).