Monastaries and Missionaries after Scientific Method

[phooey73]

I believe that:

(1) they do still generate a culture bonus
(2) they do not generate a research bonus
(3) no new Monasteries can be built

But in my past games I've kept Organized Religion so long that I don't remember whether you can build a Missionary in a city that has an existing Monastery.

Can you still build missionaries after Scientific Method with something other than Organized Religion?

[The keeper]

If you have a monastary in the city, you can still build missionarys.

But you are correct - you cannot build new monitaries after scientific method has been researched.

[phooey73]

Guess I best make sure I have all the monasteries I want before I hit that tech.

I'm ahead in tech at the moment, and in rate of tech output, but I'm planning to overextend myself anyway so that should provide a convenient tech slowdown if I time it right.

Military protection for the new cities is already built... more military and settlers in the queue.

[DudewithaWig]

I'm pretty sure the research bonus still applies after scientific method. You might want to check that again.

[Willem]

No, the research bonus is the one thing you lose. Think about it, Scientific Method and a religious institution is providing a research bonus? At that point all science would become secular.

[DudewithaWig]

What about Creationism?

[Premek]

One thing I noticed is that if you have a monestary in your construction queue and then hit Scientific Method, the monestary stays in the queue, although you cannot add a new one. I haven't tried to exploit this so I'm not sure how far you can take it - I just had something in the queue finish on the same turn I got Scientific Method and the monestary was next and it still got built.

[Willem]

Originally posted by DudewithaWig
What about Creationism?

It's called Intelligent Design these days.

[phooey73]

That's interesting.

I noticed that my missionaries in progress WERE removed from my queues when I switched from Organized Religion to Pacificism. These particular cities did not have monasteries.

The missionaries were even partially built, but they were still deleted.

I was not too happy about that. I really didn't want to switch just yet, but I was switching to representation, and it only added 2 turns of anarchy (on Marathon), and I'm in desperate need of great prophets.

My city generated people have been, Engineer, Merchant, and Artist. I've founded 6 religions and have no great prophets yet in 1200 AD. ARG!

[DudewithaWig]

Originally posted by Willem


It's called Intelligent Design these days.

Or Flying Spaghetti Monsterism

[Apocalypse]

The Big Bang Theory came from a Catholic monk

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by DudewithaWig


Or Flying Spaghetti Monsterism

Thou shalt not speaketh the name of The Flying Spaghetti Monster in vain.

[phooey73]

Damn Pastafarians.

Its just SPAGHETTI. Get over it.

[Willem]

Originally posted by phooey73
Damn Pastafarians.

Its just SPAGHETTI. Get over it.

[Ijuin]

There is the minor annoyance in Civ4 of when a new religion gets spread into your civilization from a foreign nation and since you already have Scientific Method, you can not build missionaries for it without changing your civics to Organized Religion.