The Uber Prophet unit

[Big J Money]

I believe this is a bug, because it's insanely powerful, but anyway, I built the Great Mosque to let missionaries constructed in that city spread religion 3x instead of 1x.

What I noticed though, is that the Great Prophets I purchase in that city (I don't think it happened to the ones I got automatically) can spread religion 5x!!

I was able to wipe out all the other religions in the world with mine. Should these Great Prophets be able to have this ability from the Great Mosque?

[Edit: It was the Great Mosque giving me the ability, not a belief, sorry ]

 

[thadian]

Probably, considering the "Great Mosque" has a similar effect and lets prophets use that ability more than once.

HOWEVER i believe that you are not able to choose spread religion 4x then settle a holy shrine.

 

[Adjuvant]

I believe this is a bug, because it's insanely powerful, but anyway, for my religion I accepted the belief that lets my missionaries constructed in the holy city spread religion 3x instead of 1x.

What I noticed though, is that the Great Prophets I purchase in that city (I don't think it happened to the ones I got automatically) can spread religion 5x!!

I was able to wipe out all the other religions in the world with mine. Should I be able to do this?

Sure, if your aim is domination and you're just going to kill them anyway. Spreading your religion when they're trying to spread their own is a big diplomacy hit and there is currently no religion victory condition, so I guess if you don't care if they like you do whatever you want.

Remember tho, even if they protest, you're still giving them your 2 follower beliefs, which may actually be better than theirs if you chose early enough.

 

[Big J Money]

Oops, yeah it was the Great Mosque that gave this ability, not a belief. I updated the OP to reflect that.

 

[Thibaulthc]

@tadian: indeed, once you spread religion once, you cannot do anything else (nor ehancing your religion, nor founding a holy shite site

 

[The Wreckoning]

@tadian: indeed, once you spread religion once, you cannot do anything else (nor ehancing your religion, nor founding a holy shite site

Not sure if this is completely true. I created a GProphet in a Djenne city and sent it down to convert the Holy City of the now wiped out Spanish. I converted Madrid, then moved a few tiles to the puppet Barcelona. Thought I hit the spread button, but apparently hit the Holy Site button instead, wasting the rest of the conversions.

Probably worth testing further, as this might be a bug related to the Great Mosque.

 

[BobDole]

Probably related to the Great Mosque (seeing how I've seen the same thing happen), but I wouldn't say it's "insanely powerful" or even a "bug" (I wouldn't be surprised if it was intended, but someone forgot to put it in the description). One extra religion spread isn't exactly game-changing, especially since an opposing Great Prophet can just go and undo everything anyway.

 

[Big J Money]

I'm pretty sure I got 2 extra religion spreads, not 1. Considering the GP gets an automatic "win" when spreading, this makes it a cakewalk to take over someone else's religion.

But yeah, religion isn't so powerful that being able to do this is insanely powerful. That was hyperbole on my part, doh. I was speaking relative to the current effectiveness of religion, I guess.