Agent_TBC
Chieftain
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2014
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I've generally taken polytheism + slavery to this point (slavery for the orders, poly for the shrines) but as I've moved up the difficulty setting it's become harder to manage happiness until the late mid-game when you start stacking major happiness stuff. So this game a free event allowing me to switch to... uh... the not-slavery option (Freedom?) right before I researched the tech for mono/polytheism, so I figured I give something else a try and switched to Freedom and took Monotheism for the orders since I had like 7-8 state religion cities by that point.
It mostly worked out except now I'm wondering if its a good idea to completely avoid building any shrines if you're going to take Monotheism and have a state religion? Some of the civs have pretty lackluster shrines so the bonus you get from being able to build one of each shrine is VERY minor but even so a bunch of your families and court people will start converting to your paganism and hating on you for not being pagan. Not building any shrines at all should mean you can keep basically everybody happy with your state religion unless some dirty foreign religion starts intruding but that's a worry for later.
So, yeah, basically my hypothesis is that if you found a religion and take monotheism you should really avoid building a single pagan shrine, particularly if you can't build the good one that gives you +100% culture bonus for every adjacent mountain... but if you can build that shrine and you're near a mountain range you really should take polytheism and slap down +12 culture shrines everywhere.
Am I barking up the wrong tree here or are building your 4 crappy pagan shrines way more trouble than they are worth if you take Monotheism?
It mostly worked out except now I'm wondering if its a good idea to completely avoid building any shrines if you're going to take Monotheism and have a state religion? Some of the civs have pretty lackluster shrines so the bonus you get from being able to build one of each shrine is VERY minor but even so a bunch of your families and court people will start converting to your paganism and hating on you for not being pagan. Not building any shrines at all should mean you can keep basically everybody happy with your state religion unless some dirty foreign religion starts intruding but that's a worry for later.
So, yeah, basically my hypothesis is that if you found a religion and take monotheism you should really avoid building a single pagan shrine, particularly if you can't build the good one that gives you +100% culture bonus for every adjacent mountain... but if you can build that shrine and you're near a mountain range you really should take polytheism and slap down +12 culture shrines everywhere.
Am I barking up the wrong tree here or are building your 4 crappy pagan shrines way more trouble than they are worth if you take Monotheism?
