While I love the religious model in Civ 4 I think the way spread of religion is handled, there isn't really that much downside for religious diversity in your empire (which goes against the otherwise universally visible Civ 4 idea of there being no "one best way" of doing something).
Even before the Free Religion civic, each religion in the city allows you to build one temple (and then monastery and cathedral) with no downside to it. This is both imbalanced, imo, and unhistorical - throughout most of history religious differences were the source of constant strife rather than happiness - people of Jerusalem were not more happy because their city could hold a mosque, a church and a synagogue - they were more restless because of that fact.
This thread is to discuss some ideas how to balance this, so that it could be added in a patch or if not, possibly moded.
One way of doing this, for example, would be to add unhappiness to a city for each religion, after a certain number (maybe 1 in early game, then 2 after development of theology and 3 after liberalism) the city has. This would be negated only in Freedom of Religion civic.
Even before the Free Religion civic, each religion in the city allows you to build one temple (and then monastery and cathedral) with no downside to it. This is both imbalanced, imo, and unhistorical - throughout most of history religious differences were the source of constant strife rather than happiness - people of Jerusalem were not more happy because their city could hold a mosque, a church and a synagogue - they were more restless because of that fact.
This thread is to discuss some ideas how to balance this, so that it could be added in a patch or if not, possibly moded.
One way of doing this, for example, would be to add unhappiness to a city for each religion, after a certain number (maybe 1 in early game, then 2 after development of theology and 3 after liberalism) the city has. This would be negated only in Freedom of Religion civic.
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