Can you be the capital of more then 1 religion

[Kuciwalker]

That's pretty arbitrary.

[Jaybe]

Well find out soon enough. When the game arrives!
Can someone give me $1,500 or so for a new computer? I don't think 1.3GHz withOUT an advanced graphics port slot is gonna hack it.

[Navyman]

You don't need $1,500 for a new comp, $700 will get you a 64bit system.

Also, Jerusalem isn't the capital of Islam, it's Mecca. Claiming Jerusalem to be also be a holy city is a nice way of justifying land grabbing.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Cataphract887
perhaps the city whose beakers completed the tech cost and 'researched' the tech?

Oooooo! I hope its this! If it is, perhaps that means that excess beakers will be applied to the next teck like they were in Civ I and II!!!

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, I much preferred that way of doing it Donegeal

[Kuciwalker]

However, which city is chosen depends on in which order the game counts the cities contributions - so it could be very random.

[Provost Harrison]

True, true, but statistically the largest science contributor is most likely to give the tech...

[Kuciwalker]

But the statistics may be skewed by the way in which the cities are ordered, especially if you have a large number of cities and micromanage to make sure you overflow by as little as possible.

Better, IMO, to use the number of beakers the city produces/total beakers produced as the chance for the city to be the holy city.

[Donegeal]

Then your holy city will usually always be the same.

In all variations of Civ (I,II,III and CTP I/II), the order that beakers were applied (or gold/food/production for that matter) depended on the order that the cities you posses were founded.

With this in mind, you could concievably pick which city becomes the holy city if you meticulously MM and have a sufficent teck lead so that you don't have to worry about someone else getting the tech first.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by CyberShy
I wonder if in the (post) modern ages people will lose their religion....

Why? Even if they don't go to church, most people still believe in something. True atheists are still fairly rare. Atheism is a 1337 thing, after all.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
But the statistics may be skewed by the way in which the cities are ordered, especially if you have a large number of cities and micromanage to make sure you overflow by as little as possible.

Better, IMO, to use the number of beakers the city produces/total beakers produced as the chance for the city to be the holy city.

Perhaps there may be a better measure for selection...I think that using beaker production per city won't make a blind bit of difference. Perhaps factoring in both beaker production and culture production in your cities may be the best way to select a holy city...

[Niptium]

In any ways. I think that even if Firaxis doesn't include this very feature (choosing the ciy or at least making it random), I'll be trying to learn python or XML editing just to create that event...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
So would discovering Printing Press first make you the capital of Protestantism?

Why ?


The printing press was ably used by the Catholic powers, such as the Venetian Republic- the Aldus Manutius set up shop there in 1488, reprinting portable editions of the works of Classical antiquity.

The flourishing print shops of northern Italy fuelled the scientific revolution that went along with the artistic & cultural revolution of the Renaissance and the Baroque era.

[Kuciwalker]

Didn't the printing press make Bibles much more widely available and therefore more accessible to the common people, which helped cause the Protestant revolution?

[Nikolai]

Yes.