Religions

[Berenthor]

I really like the idea as you suggested it right now. We should however see how we implement the missionary type unit since the AI in general kinda spams missionaries. Maybe we can reduce how many the AI makes or do something else with it to avoid a whole world of shadow worship.
Also switching to no religion on becoming neutral might be problematic if you have no control on if you become neutral. Although I like the fact that you have to work to stay evil if you want to run the religion (maybe you have to stay with a certain civic because otherwise you move to neutral) which brings a nice dimension in it.

 

[Sengir]

I think it will be pretty hard to get back to good after adopting 'shadow worshipping' as it should carry a evil modifier as well. So I think it will be more work to get to good then to stay evil. We should however make sure that it is clear which actions modify alignment.

 

[xmen510]

I think for the missionary issue we could do this:

Missionary: National Unit: 1 Allowed

 

[Sengir]

That would limit it enough (especially as the other cities of civs with the shadow religion get it automatically).
Also, I don't think a lot of civs will OB with Shadow easily, making spreading the shadow religion into these lands pretty hard.

 

[Berenthor]

That is true. Maybe we should also not allow spreading shadow to good?

 

[Sengir]

I think that if Good civs have regular communications going with Shadow civs (which is what OB signifys in my book), they are running the risk of getting infected by it, so I'd not have an additional limit to it.

 

[Berenthor]

Oh yeah good point. Agreed

 

[xmen510]

Yes, that is a good point.

 

[xmen510]

So I just want to cinfirm a few things here before we really get into the implementation discussion.

#1: Is Religion in or not?

#2: Will we have a Religious Building (based on the idea I provided) or not if Religion is in?

#3: If Religion is in, then we will Allow the Missionary to be built, but only as a National Unit with a limit of 1 at a time being available?

#4: Should we limit the Missionary (If in) to only be built if you have the Religious Building in that city, otherwise you cannot build it?

Lets get these things decided. After all, there is no point in going into deep discussion of the Religions if we decide to not implement them. So, what do you guys think on these Topics?

 

[Berenthor]

#1: I like Sengir's idea of only including one religion: shadow
#2: We could have one sacrificial altar or temple of worship as a building
#3: You need that building to build the missionary, but national unit of only 1
#4: see #3.

 

[Sengir]

I'm in favor of my own idea
#1: Only shadow
#2: have a sacrificial altar or something similar (only one building)
#3: A missionary, national unit of 1 sounds fine with me (though the name...)
#4: Yeah it should probably need the building.

 

[T_F]

1. Shadow only is a good idea
2. Sacrificial altar sounds great
3. Limited missionary (1 unit sounds good), and of course inquisitor-equivalents
4. Building is necessary

 

[xmen510]

Sounds good to me.

I have updated the finalized Religions list to only include Worship of the Shadow.

 

[xmen510]

no longer relevant