Why religion is overrated?
My key point is opportunity costs. Founding religions delays other key techs that is important like Math and Currency. To be consistently founding religions you have to make suboptimal empire development decisions. That, to me is not worth it. Building a shrine looks pretty shiny too, but it's a significant investment since it's hard to get great prophet point in a consistent way. Beside there's the meta consideration too. Say if I were to attack someone, assuming both of my opponent were roughly equal strength. I will attack the guy who built the shrine.
Anyways back to the game,
T50
We meet Gavagai:
He is Gandhi of Rome. Extremely aggressive player, relatively high skill cap, however his traits are slow and doesn't help expansion. Probably the neighbour we want the least.
He has two cities:
Very slow to expand, could he be going for the Oracle? As Gandhi, the access to Caste Systems early is very valuable.
He has a size 5 city.
My key point is opportunity costs. Founding religions delays other key techs that is important like Math and Currency. To be consistently founding religions you have to make suboptimal empire development decisions. That, to me is not worth it. Building a shrine looks pretty shiny too, but it's a significant investment since it's hard to get great prophet point in a consistent way. Beside there's the meta consideration too. Say if I were to attack someone, assuming both of my opponent were roughly equal strength. I will attack the guy who built the shrine.
Anyways back to the game,
T50
We meet Gavagai:
He is Gandhi of Rome. Extremely aggressive player, relatively high skill cap, however his traits are slow and doesn't help expansion. Probably the neighbour we want the least.
He has two cities:
Very slow to expand, could he be going for the Oracle? As Gandhi, the access to Caste Systems early is very valuable.
He has a size 5 city.