So what if I don't want to get a religion?

I'm actually curious how exactly religion spreading works, because atm it doesn't seem like we can have multiple religions in cities (which I think is wrong). I'm also curious what happens to your Pantheon belief if another religion spreads to your city/nation, do you lose the pantheon belief?

It isn't clear yet whether the religions vie for influence or not; it is possible that when a religion is established in a city it stays there until it is removed with an Inquisitor.

It might be more interesting if the religion in a city changes based on the 'power' of that religion; for example, this might be measured by the total amount of faith accumulated during the game for each, or the sheer number of believers for each.

Hopefully it won't be too static.
 
I think, based on the overall 'feel' of Civ 5, and there being only one religion icon per city, it is safe to say that there will only be one religion in each city at any given time.

I would definitely like a bit more of a robust system, less for gameplay reasons and more for thematic ones (and therefore unlikely, for a commercial release). For instance, you could have other minor (visible only in city screen) religions present in a city besides the dominant (icon) religion, which don't actually exert their religious 'effects' from belief on that city, but which make it easier for foreign missionaries to change the dominant religion. It could also act as an interval step for missionaries, IE, you have to establish your religion as a minority in the city first before sending a second missionary to make it dominant, and inquisitors remove all minority religions and downgrade a dominant non-state religion to a minority.

But I seriously doubt they'd implement that. Very probably, in my eyes: One religion per city, period. Missionaries add your religion to an empty city, Inquisitors replace not-your-religion with your religion, religious spread happens randomly and only to empty cities. Civ 5 has, generally, been more about accessibility and streamlining than Civ 4, so having a religious spread system that is unusually complex compared to other features doesn't seem likely to me.
 
Guess we'll have to wait and see. I do hope that we can change between religions in each city.

But then how will "State" religion work.. and all of the screenshots showed the same religion all over the cities. (controlled by one player that is)
 
Cities have a religion that may or may not be connected to their Civ's religion. Instead, the cities get a "follower bonus" connected to the religion in that city.
 
Cities have a religion that may or may not be connected to their Civ's religion. Instead, the cities get a "follower bonus" connected to the religion in that city.

I think it is likely that they will only get this bonus if they follow the state religion, since that would be a logical incentive to switch state religions; otherwise, it would be a purely diplomatic tool, completely disconnected from the actual situation in your civ.
 
Yeah, I think that'll be the case. However, such bonuses are city specific, not nation specific.
 
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