Observations on getting the three early religions

[meltone1]

I noticed that whenever I try to, I can pretty much get all three of the early religions. I have been playing on "prince" level, and it seems like they're pretty much always there for me if I want to take them first. I am still playing the demo, so I was wondering first of all if they made it more difficult to run the table with the early religions, perhaps via patches?

Also, I'm sure that they wouldn't be as easy to get on higher difficulty levels, but I think at this particular level they are too easy to obtain. Any thoughts?

 

[UnitQ]

What type of civ are you useing, becouse if your useing a spiritual civ then it would be easy becouse it could be your first tech. I dont find it that easy most civs in my game go straight for it and dont stop till they get it.

 

[Atomic]

The reason you can do that I think would be the fact that you are playing the demo.

In the demo I dont think that there are all the computer AI's. Some of the AI's will go straight for one of the early religions. So while you can usually nab one, its very rare and very lucky to get them all. It all depends on which AI's are in the game with you (getting both Hinduism and Budism is Extremely lucky)

 

[NuWorld]

It depends on the number of rival civs in the game and how many of those are spirirtual. Isabella always goes for Buddhism, Indians for Hinduism, Mansa, Saladin and Monty will go for one too. If there are 2 other spiritual civs in the game beside yours, I would go for Judaism. If you get Hinduism on the way, switch to something else cos someone else will aim for Judaism (and probably get it before you).

 

[Lord Frosty]

ANYTIME Isabella is in my game she ALWAYS gets to one or two religions before I do. And, in most cases, she is my first opportunity for war; under pressure to convert and her need to expand. I hate her.

 

[Junichiro]

In my games it is close to impossible to get all three early religions, unless of course there are few civs and none of the opponents are religiously-minded (like India, Spain, Aztec, Greece...). Otherwise, even if I would race for Buddhism someone always grabs Hinduism couple of turns later.
In one game my Spain managed to grab five out of five religions (I was the only religion-minded civ in that game and I did get really nice starting point, especially compared to some others...) but since my kingdom had become so weak on the concentration on one branch, I dropped it at that point...

Nowadays I usually found 0-2 religions (if suitable, racing to Buddhism/Hinduism and then getting Confucianism, Christianity or Taoism from Oracle), depending on the map, civ and gameplan.