Salidin is stupid, who else is?

[Qwertqwert]

Saladin converted to Islam, despite the fact that he didn't found it, and doesn't have any cities with Islam. (I know because the only cities that do are 2 of mine) Are any other civilizations as stupid as him or is he the only one? Who else does this?

[Solver]

That isn't even possible. You can only pick your state religion to be Islam if you have Islam in one of your cities - hence, Saladin here must have at least on Islamic city.

[Qwertqwert]

How could he have gotten an islamic city, I founded islam, didn't build the thing that a great prophet is needed for, infact I didn't build a single islamic building. I'll go into world builder and check.

[Qwertqwert]

Well you were right, somehow he had 1 size 1 city with Islam, it was still stupid though because he had 3 cities above size 5 with Christanity. Though how did he get it? Unless the computer just gave it to him there's no way he could have had it. He doesn't even have Divine Right.

[dearmad]

Dou you have ANY idea how reliigon is spread- your posts indicate you don't.

[Solver]

If you had Open Borders, your religion could have spread to him.

[alva]

You need open borders for auto spread to happen? Are you sure about that?

[General Ludd]

I've had religons spread to civlizations on the other side of the world that I've never even had contact with.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by alva
You need open borders for auto spread to happen? Are you sure about that?

Religion spreads through trade routes, trade routes require open borders.

[Blake]

*whimpers*

Religion spreads through "Trade connections", that is, religion can spread to cities that the holy city at least would have the option of having trade routes with.

However there is no need to actually have open borders or open trade. Case in point, Tokugawa always ends up with religion even if he doesn't found one.

[Qwertqwert]

Originally posted by dearmad
Dou you have ANY idea how reliigon is spread- your posts indicate you don't.

From what I knew you create a monestary and send it to a city, or if you build that wonder with the great prophet it does. However I didn't have open boarders with Saladin, and never have.

[CerberusIV]

If you have trade with someone (the little yellow triangle of arrows next to their name on the main screen) then a religion can spread either way. A newly founded city without a religion will grab one (and often seems to get a minor religion rather than an established one). Simple as that.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Religion spreads through trade routes, trade routes require open borders.

It seems more like spreading of religion is very random, as I often end up spreading my religion to a civ I've never met. Sometimes that civ is located on a different continent, and the spreading can happen before anybody gets close to discovering caravels

[proviisori]

Originally posted by Qwertqwert


From what I knew you create a monestary and send it to a city, or if you build that wonder with the great prophet it does. However I didn't have open boarders with Saladin, and never have.

You don't send monestaries to cities (they are buildings, you know ) , you send missionaries that can be built with monesteries or under org.religion civic.

You don't need a shrine (that great prophet wonder) in order to spread religion without missionaries, it just speeds up the spreading.

Religions spread passively via trade routes, but it is random and it can spread only to those cities that do NOT have a religion. With missionaries you can pinpoint the spread to specific city and the target city can have a religion / religions already.

[Zoid]

I´m not going to answer the question in your OP. I don´t want to be mean