Temples and monasteries give production?

[Letka]

Hi!

I actually subscribed to this forum only to find me an answer of a weird feature in civ which I never quite understood..

How come sometimes temples and monasteries give +2 production? It seems to happen always with religion which is not my own religion, or state religion.

An example from my current game:

I found confucianism, my neighbour found buddhism.. I also found taoism later. Some buddhism spreaded into my area. Later I took over the whole country and conquered buddhist holy city. Taoism is my state religion currently.

Now I've realized a moment ago that building BUDDHIST temples or monasteries give also +2 productions.. I'm pretty sure the feature was already there already before I took over their country.. But whats the logic here? I don't understand.. I'm sure in my other games the same has happened, also then with other religion spreading into my area.. Anyone has a logical explanation for this?

I also chatted with my friends in other forum about this and they have experienced the same but never understood the logic neither.. is this a bug?

Thanks!

 

[Sian]

Buddist AP

 

[tbohm0]

The Apostolic Palace gives all religious buildings of its religion +2

So apparantly, someone built the AP under Buddhism in your game.

 

[Windsor]

All religious buildings in the Apostolic Palace-religion gives +2 You loose this benefit if you defy an AP-resolution. See this guide

 

[Letka]

Ok thanks, came in very handy

I really did suspect all along that exactly my other neighbour had built a wonder which caused it, and I thought it's something like university of sankore etc, so I made him convert into Taoism as well (as I had tons of taoist buildings).. but apparently the hammer bonus only stays for the religion which he used when building the AP.. DOH ..so now I've built useless taoist temples when I should've been building buddhists all the time.

 

[catfish99]

Ok thanks, came in very handy

I really did suspect all along that exactly my other neighbour had built a wonder which caused it, and I thought it's something like university of sankore etc, so I made him convert into Taoism as well (as I had tons of taoist buildings).. but apparently the hammer bonus only stays for the religion which he used when building the AP.. DOH ..so now I've built useless taoist temples when I should've been building buddhists all the time.

Those taoist temples will not be useless if you go for a cultural win. Use them to green light the Pagoda in your biggest cities, and enjoy the 50% boost.
In the interim, you still get the extra happiness and can add a priest to those cities.

 

[Jewbat]

Does this also give to other civilizations' Buddhist buildings as well? i.e. I own the AP, does Ms. Hatsephut-over-the-river also benefit from the +?

 

[God-Emperor]

Yes. All buildings of the AP religion owned by all players get the +2.

 

[plasmacannon]

Also, Free Religion grants +1 for each Religion in your cities, so it will still be a good idea to spread Taoism and other religions to cities that need the extra happiness, if you have the time during conquering.

 

[Seraiel]

AP-Temples are seriously great.

Normal temples, even those boosted by the 2 other Wonders, are almost useless though.

When conquering the wonders though, the built AP-temples become really great.

 

[paulcarri]

i build temples when i want to pop a prophet for a shrine in my gp city... and need the specialists, and cant run caste?

bad tactics?

 

[Seraiel]

A single temple for a single Great Prophet to build a single Shrine, usually is a really good idea.

Building temples in all cities, is usually really bad play, except they're AP-temples. ^^

 

[paulcarri]

A single temple for a single Great Prophet to build a single Shrine, usually is a really good idea.

Building temples in all cities, is usually really bad play, except they're AP-temples. ^^

Ahh noo, i only build them in the gp city- gotcha