Is the following a good strategy for religion?

[Theben]

If you want to know whether or not it has any wonders in it, just look in the Stats/top 5 cities screen. Scroll thru to see if any wonders are listed.

Otherwise, you can guess by how large the city and what items you can see from the zoomed-in main screen.

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by Theben ... Otherwise, you can guess by how large the city and what items you can see from the zoomed-in main screen.

Yeah, once you get used to it you can see the wonders around the city (if you are zoomed in enough).

[Ming]

Originally posted by Theben
If you want to know whether or not it has any wonders in it, just look in the Stats/top 5 cities screen. Scroll thru to see if any wonders are listed.

Wonders aren't a problem. You can zoom into the map and usually see what wonders have been built into the city. You can bet your sweet life that I know what Zeus looks like, because that's the first city I will go after when attacking the civ that has it

Otherwise, you can guess by how large the city and what items you can see from the zoomed-in main screen.

Sure enough... but you can't tell if it has a bunch of general's or other great people settled there. Plus, just because a city is large means nothing.

[joncnunn]

Re: Is the following a good strategy for religion?

In cities you already have their religons: Take full advantage of the structures (as needed). It's obvious your planning a war so you probably don't want to slow down your unit production too much but cities at their current happy limit that are missing temples for religions present would definately benifit.

If you have chosen a state religion, you do want to spread that but only if that AI isn't already actively spreading it to your cities for you.
But you probably don't want to spread non-state religions considering your planned war.

Assuming you haven't built the wonder allowing Free Religion early and also don't have Liberalism, the non default religious civics only work if you have a state religion.

Originally posted by NFIH
In my current game I haven't founded any religions and my rivals own the wonders that accrue additional cash for buildings of those various religions. Is it a good idea for me to forgo building temples and spreading religions around my cities so as to deny the cash to my rivals or should I build them anyway for the happiness and cultural boosts?

I'm afraid of the civs ahead of me pulling too far ahead before I'm in position to crush them militarily. I figure if I inadvertently fund their unit-creation capability I'll only be hurting myself in the long run despite the short-term benefit to me. Maybe it's good enough to share the religion of the leader--so as to ward off attack--and leave it at that?

[The Priest]

I would certainly spread one religion.

As has been said teh possibility of temples and monastries is too good to miss, just for teh sake of avoidign the minor gold benefit to your enemeies.

But, perhaps more importantly, if you don't have a religion you can't benefit from teh religious civics. 25% bonus on all buildings is serious; as is 2 extra XP when building that army to conquer the shrines (with a barracks giving the next promotion, which means CRII - an extra 20 or is it 25% attack).