Pick you Holy City

[Charles 22]

In my case over the many games I've played, I can say that only once was it not the newest city, but then I'm usually only 3-4 cities deep at that time. In the last game I played I was more in terms of being 7-8 cities deep, pretty much treating every city the same as I always do early on (since I'm not getting any poor cities) and it went to the city that was like 3 cities back in terms of newness. There may be a newest city formula, or cultural formula, but it's not absolute, for I can't think of any fornula that would allow for the type of situation I just described. That city had to have less of everything than at least 3 elgible cities, and at the same time, more of everything than 3 or so other cities. It wasn't even a border city either.

That's the only time I've had founded religion go to an unpredictable spot, as it's usually the newest city in my experience.

 

[Bushface]

Recent Cultural Victory game: founded all 7 religions.
#1,#2 and #3 in capital (only city at the time)
#4 in second city, of 3. Not the newest, not the least cultured.
#5 and #6 in current newest city.
#7 in second city, of 10.
I think selection is pseudo-random, weighted towards "newest" but definitely not limited thereto.

 

[zeeter]

My recent cutural victory game:
#1,2, and 3 in Captial - only city.
#4 in Second city of three
#5 in Fourth City of four
#6 in Second city of four
#7 in next to last city of several.

Note that I had stonehenge, so my last city was producing culture, yet the religion went to the second to last city.

 

[meatwad4289]

My very first game proves much that was said here wrong. In my first game I founded 5 Religions. Confusism and chrisitanity used my capital as a Holy City. Islam used my other City of Atlanta as it's Holy City and Atlanta was Jewish, while I had much larger Cities with no religions. Taoism was founded in a confusist City as well. Hinduism was founded in my second city, but Ended There.

 

[King Flevance]

I had an odd experience in my last game. I think all these examples are great ways to prove that it is completely random with just certain factors as culture influencing the outcome but not determining it.

In my screenshot I numbered the cities in the order they were placed. I did not check culture values but I found the outcome surprising by alot for a change.

I had stonehenge in my capitol for a while though at this point and cities 4-6 had not been were founded AFTER Stonehenge was built. So 1-2-3 all had culture values at the highest at this point.