Apolyton Civ4 PREVIEW (By Solver) - Part 1 online

[Xmudder]

Originally posted by MarkG
yes.
if you dont build religious buildings your religion wont spread that easily and you many need missionaries to do it faster

Will settlers from a city pass that city's religions on to their new city? Or are all new cities religion free at start?

Which tech enables Monestaries?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by kolpo


If I keep sending missionaries at the same city, shall my religion then over time become so dominant that the other ones disappear?

Yes. This is a question I wanted to ask also. Is it possible for a city to lose a religion?

[sophist]

Originally posted by Dominae

This is actually a very tough thing to balance. You want the "artillery effect" to be useful enough in small quantities so that casual players like them, but not uber in large quantities. As we discovered in Civ3, what's good in moderation is broken in excess.

An idea I had to balance that was using diminishing returns. Start with Civ3 style artillery units. Then make it so that the likelihood of a hit on a particular unit on the target square was proportional to a function of the target unit's HP. The more HP, the more likely it would be to get hit. Artillery would be capable of lethal bombard, but it would require a lot of shots to actually kill a unit. You wouldn't be able to aim your artillery at a specific unit, just a tile. More units on that tile would increase the odds of striking some unit to balance out the stack of doom. There are a couple ways to slice it to achieve the goal of artillery being useful to soften defenders without allowing an enormous mass of artillery to reduce them to pudding.

Originally posted by Lorizael

Yes. This is a question I wanted to ask also. Is it possible for a city to lose a religion?

Depends on whether they got the licensing deal with REM done. "That's my city in the corner... That's my city in the spot light, losing its religion..."

I'm guessing that a religion once acquired doesn't go away unless supplanted by another one. Nature abhors a vacuum. But that's just a guess.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by kolpo
If I keep sending missionaries at the same city, shall my religion then over time become so dominant that the other ones disappear?

no
you send your missionary, if he spreads the religion that's that. a second missionary wont be able to do anything in the city

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Xmudder
Will settlers from a city pass that city's religions on to their new city?

new cities are religion-free

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Is it possible for a city to lose a religion?

no

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by sophist
Depends on whether they got the licensing deal with REM done. "That's my city in the corner... That's my city in the spot light, losing its religion..."

I'm guessing that a religion once acquired doesn't go away unless supplanted by another one. Nature abhors a vacuum. But that's just a guess.

hehe. thank you.

Another question for Markos then. Is there any disadvantage to having multiple religions within a city?

[TheDarkside]

Originally posted by Lorizael


hehe. thank you.

Another question for Markos then. Is there any disadvantage to having multiple religions within a city?

I'm not Markos but... wouldn't that be a disadvantage if you had a state religion (and the free religion civic was unavailable) ?? Then that city would not be at optimal happiness

[Xmudder]

Originally posted by MarkG
new cities are religion-free

Oh.

So how do you get cultural borders to expland? Build and send a missionary, and then build a temple? Wait for it to switch religions? Build some other cultural building?

Obelisks become obsolete, after all.

[Solver]

Spread your state religion to the city. Build a Library or something. Wait for the religion to spread by itself.

[TheDarkside]

Someone be sure to post in this thread when part 2 is available so everyone else subscribed to this thread gets a notice via e-mail

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by MarkG
new cities are religion-free

That doesn't make sense. If I send out 10,000 Buddhist settlers to found a new city, why wouldn't it start out as a Buddhist city?

[Ennet]

Ofcourse Im refreshing like crazy, currently MarkG is online but not posting anything, perhaps we can expect something very soon?

[Ninot]

No idea if this has been covered before, but....

How many CDs does the game come on? Or if you downloaded from an FTP, how many gigs?

[Ennet]

Games started shipping on DVDs now