Your Missionary Fails to Spread Religion

[Refar]

No, natural spread is only possible when the city is free of religion.

The formula i dont know. VoU wrote a article on this. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=237869

 

[50_dollar_bag]

So your slightly better off gifting missionaries to an AI than actually spreading it yourself assuming no Theocracy or Bhruic's patch?

 

[KMadCandy]

oops fake LV, my bad. i phrased that thing about gifting poorly. what Bhruic changed is that you can't gift civs in theocracy missionaries of their non-state religions. you can still gift missionaries of their state religion, or any missionaries at all to civs not in theo. and without his patch, you can gift missionaries to anybody (except barbs or anybody you're at war with ) all day long.

if a civ is in theocracy, the only way you can get your religion to them (barring a random event or using spies/bribes to change their civic or religion) is to gift them the missionaries so that they can use them on their own cities.

but assuming no theocracy, i don't know of any advantage to gifting the missionaries. well, except for the fairly cheesy fact that it gets you out of the "3 at a time" limit faster than walking them to individual cities yourself.

 

[Refar]

When you spread to a AI its foreighn spread, if you gift the missionay and AI uses it, it has a little bit higher chance to succed.

 

[50_dollar_bag]

When you spread to a AI its foreighn spread, if you gift the missionay and AI uses it, it has a little bit higher chance to succed.

That's what I was inferring. I usually do that anyway. Saves me micromanaging and the missionary gets an extra turn

 

[Elfdemon]

So... when I left-click and 'test-drag' one of my missionaries into a foreign city, and I don't get any option to spread Religion, that's because .... because why?

Some cities I can spread to, and some I can't. I don't understand.

He's running theocracy, but you can still spread your religion by gifting him the missionary, he will use it next turn. In addition, AIs' missionaries never fail.

 

[Refar]

Never ?

We already established, that Domestic Spread has higher succes probabily than Foreighn... but Never ?!?