Thank you very much, Tomatekh, for this very nice and greatly enjoyable mod! As an assistant professor for the Islamic studies and history of religion in real life, I do have many issues with the idea that there were clearly definable religions in antiquity (and this is why there is room for discussion how we should name a thing like Hellenism and so on). However, this is not a seminar. So... I would love to see an icon for the Din-i Ilahi, Mithraism, Yazidism, Ahl-e Haqq, Alevism, Kharijite Islam, Druze, and just some old stuff like cult of Marduk, and Baal. Oh yes, Baal! ;-) I could go on and on.
Thank you for providing us with this lovely stuff, I find it immensely enjoyable to cover my map with lovely yellow Manichaeism!
Oh, one more thing: Would it be hard to implement to make name changes within pre-named religions possible?
I'm glad you are enjoying the mod!
Honestly, most of the names are just for the sake of convenience in terms of how religion functions in the game and not meant to be a statement. They're also not meant to be looked at in a vacuum. For example, I think the pedia entry I wrote for Hellenism does a lot better job explaining the religion while also giving context to the name. Even there, though, there's only so much space to write and you can't fit everything. One of my primary goals with the mod was also to include the religions in a way that stylistically and thematically matched the officially included material. I felt this was important and sometimes you have to make some concessions in terms of historical accuracy for that to work.
In terms of your requests, I actually ended up including a large number of them by the end of the
Civ V version of this mod. I plan to expand the Civ VI version in the same way. For the first release, I couldn't include everything, so I started with more general categories/religions which I'll then elaborate in future updates. So, at the moment, religions like Mithraism, Atenism, Cults of Marduk, Ba'al Hadad are included in the mod under the broad categories of Hellenism, Pesedjet, Chaldaenism, Canaanism respectively, but I intend to separate them out into their own religions with future updates. It just takes time to make all the art... although I've already started with some of them:
In terms of name changes, do you mean having multiple AI choose the same symbol under different names, (or something similar)? I figured out how to do that with the Civ V version of the mod, but it requires lua which modders are still having some trouble implementing consistently with Civ VI. Something like that might need to wait until the release of the official SDK/modbuddy/workshop stuff.
If you mean just renaming all the religions yourself, you can do that easily by editing the mod's text file. ~/Tomatekhs Historical Religions/XML/HR_Religions_Text.xml
Any program like notepad will be able to open it. You can then just search for say "Hellenism", find the entry that looks like this:
<Row Tag="LOC_RELIGION_HELLENISM" Language="en_US">
<Text>Hellenism</Text>
</Row>
Rename the religion between the two <Text></Text> and save the file.
This was my first post in the forum to introduce this, after the first days I played the game. A question: Do the AI choose the religion fitting to its civilization if it has none before? As example China always chooses Taoism if it is available. Would be nice if Greece as example would always choose "Hellinism". I am sick of seeing ancient Greece choosing Sikhism. This ruins the authenticity of a game calling "Civilization".
