[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Civ4 impressions

[Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

2005-11-22 kl. 07.56 skrev Brian Dunstan:

> Interesting: religion.  Religion seems like a good
> idea, especially its effects on diplomacy.  They used
> "real world" religions, and made them all the same.
> It would be better to have ficticious religions, and
> make the religions different from one another.
> Religion however should be one of the 'civics' or
> 'social engineering' categories, not something
> independent from that.

I don't quite like Civ4's approach to religion. I imagine religion in 
Freeciv as a parallell form of government, and that religion is made 
equal with civilization; e.g. when a city is "converted" to your 
religion, it is the same as if you conquered it militarily. Civs will 
have to improve their culture and strengthen their religion, otherwise 
a horde of missionaries could easily subdue a primitive civ in no time.
In Freeciv, tech 'monotheism' would give access to religion 
'monotheism' etc. The most advanced form or religion should be 
'atheism', that boost scientific output and make your cities immune to 
missionaries but like democracy, suffer from high levels of 
unhappiness. And maybe suffer the risk of reverting to some form of 
new-age cultism (i.e. Scientology) ;-)
-Daniel