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Civ 5
RE: Civ 5
What are the pros of going down the path of Faith? How do I implement a religion?

I'm playing on the second easiest difficulty. I'm still a beginner after all.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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RE: Civ 5
(August 28, 2014 at 3:43 pm)Blackout Wrote: What are the pros of going down the path of Faith? How do I implement a religion?

I'm playing on the second easiest difficulty. I'm still a beginner after all.

Faith and establishing a religion helps you do pretty much anything you want much easier. You can tailor your faith to bring in insane amounts of gold, give you science boosts, free great people, or loads of happiness. It won't win you the game by itself, but the benefits you can get from it are pretty huge. You don't need to take the Piety tree to go religious, but its super helpful. You can start a religion once a great prophet is born. Once you hit a certain number of Faith (gained from making shrines or from working certain tiles depending on your pantheon), you have a chance at the beginning of each turn to spawn a Great Prophet. Once the Prophet spawns, your Faith goes back down to 0. YOu can expend the Great Prophet to create a religion, which grants you some bonuses that you get to choose. You can 'enhance' your religion one time, by using up another Great Prophet which adds even more bonuses. And if you complete the Piety policy tree, you get a choice of one last very powerful "Reformation" belief, which can really impact the game.

In short - Religion won't win you the game on its own, but can be SUPER helpful for just about anything you want.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Civ 5
(August 28, 2014 at 3:50 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:
(August 28, 2014 at 3:43 pm)Blackout Wrote: What are the pros of going down the path of Faith? How do I implement a religion?

I'm playing on the second easiest difficulty. I'm still a beginner after all.

Faith and establishing a religion helps you do pretty much anything you want much easier. You can tailor your faith to bring in insane amounts of gold, give you science boosts, free great people, or loads of happiness. It won't win you the game by itself, but the benefits you can get from it are pretty huge. You don't need to take the Piety tree to go religious, but its super helpful. You can start a religion once a great prophet is born. Once you hit a certain number of Faith (gained from making shrines or from working certain tiles depending on your pantheon), you have a chance at the beginning of each turn to spawn a Great Prophet. Once the Prophet spawns, your Faith goes back down to 0. YOu can expend the Great Prophet to create a religion, which grants you some bonuses that you get to choose. You can 'enhance' your religion one time, by using up another Great Prophet which adds even more bonuses. And if you complete the Piety policy tree, you get a choice of one last very powerful "Reformation" belief, which can really impact the game.

In short - Religion won't win you the game on its own, but can be SUPER helpful for just about anything you want.
Religion is regarded by some as true, by others as false, and by the rulers as useful. Religion isn't so bad after all ROFLOL
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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RE: Civ 5
The thing I hate about the Piety tree is that it's incompatible with the Science tree (rationalism I think?). Fucking lame. Guess it's realistic though.
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(August 28, 2014 at 5:11 pm)Napoléon Wrote: The thing I hate about the Piety tree is that it's incompatible with the Science tree (rationalism I think?). Fucking lame. Guess it's realistic though.

Actually in the expansions (at least in BNW) they changed that, and updated a lot of the policy effects.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Well at least there's a sizable gap between access to piety and access to rationality, so you can use the culture boost to get the other policies you want before switching to rationality later in the game.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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Piety and Rationaliy actually work pretty well with each other, you can tailor your religion to give you science boosts, and with the Faith boosts from the Piety tree, you can easily stock up on insta-buy Great Scientists once you hit the Industrial Era
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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(August 28, 2014 at 5:12 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Actually in the expansions (at least in BNW) they changed that, and updated a lot of the policy effects.

Holy shitballs, that's awesome. I didn't realise.
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* Nine wonders if he could play both CiV5 and BF4 at the same time without his PC bursting into flames
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RE: Civ 5
(August 30, 2014 at 6:48 am)Insanity Wrote: * Insanity wonders if he could play both CiV5 and BF4 at the same time without his PC bursting into flames

That poor computer. Sad
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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