Why is custom religion so expensive??

[500KG]

I'm sure I made this yesterday and it was about 5000, so I spent YEARS saving up 5000 piety.
Finally did it, and now i'm getting this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2257943666

[Black_Rat]

The learning lifestyle has a perk which reduces the cost by 50%

[Ashantai]

You need the 'prophet' perk from the Theology focus.

That reduces the cost by 50% and you'd easily be able to afford it.

[CrUsHeR]

Previously your fervor was low. Now you're back at 100% and pay the full cost.


So the lower your current faith's fervor, the cheaper it gets to create a new faith.


BTW - Faith, not religion. The religions are the groups like christianity, islam or buddhism. Faiths are the individual denominations. You cannot create a new religion, even if you name it after your favorite manga it is still a christian faith.

[Intrspace]

It's not even that much. I farmed up 37k piety to convert to a dead religion, but then a random guy who practised that religion showed up, so I had to pay only 250 piety lol

For those curious it was the Milete religion

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Aggressively pushing Piety generation tends to also boost religion fervor, so unless your religion's fervor is already full, you need to counter-balance the fervor growth or just assume that you'll have to pay the full price without the fervor discount.

Also if you're playing a religion with heresies, every time a heresy spawns now, the fervor gets a massive boost for awhile in order to slow down heresy spread, so you don't have pretty much all of them popping off at once.

[500KG]

So if I lower their fervor, I can create it cheaper? So I just have to beat up the catholics a bit?

[JC]

Actually, causing the Catholics to lose will raise their fervor.
Winning and sinning lower fervor.

[500KG]

Whoops, I spent the last 4 hours giving them a bad time.