Religious Victory Question

[RajaAgni]

New to civ. Playecd it twice so far. Started a 3rd one to try for religious victory but it seems there are no prophets to get. Is there a minimum map size or start era or something for prophets to be available?

[SamBC]

There's a limited number of prophets in the game. Not everyone gets to start a religion.

[Lemurian1972]

If you start a game in a later era, there won't be Prophets to choose. I don't know what the cut off is exactly.

[RajaAgni]

Originally posted by SamBC:

There's a limited number of prophets in the game. Not everyone gets to start a religion.

There were no prophets to begin with. (I foresaw this. LOL)

Originally posted by Lemurian1972:

If you start a game in a later era, there won't be Prophets to choose. I don't know what the cut off is exactly.

I started in the Atomic era. It must be that.

Anyone know the cutoff era?

[johna37]

Build stonehenge and religious district.

[RajaAgni]

Originally posted by johna37:

Build stonehenge and religious district.

I started in the Atomic era, Stonehenge isn't available. And I did build a religious district.

[donald23]

Originally posted by RajaAgni:

Originally posted by johna37:

Build stonehenge and religious district.

I started in the Atomic era, Stonehenge isn't available. And I did build a religious district.

I think it's Industrial and later that have religion disabled.

[Azunai]

according to the civ wiki ( http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Prophet_(Civ6) ) there are 6 great prophets for classic, 5 for medieval and another 5 for renaissance. so if you start in industrial or later, there won't be any GP in the list.

i guess you should simply play a game starting in ancient or classic times if you want to win a religious victory. medieval might also still work. renaissance would be risky. if the game progresses to industrial too fast, the list might be empty even before the 5 potential GPs have been picked.

[RajaAgni]

Thanx people. It's a bummer since I chose Spain as my civ so that I could get the Spain Inquisitor acheivement. Actually, it's a double bummer

[Martin]

hahaha you started in atomic era.. and were going for a religious victory. Awesome.

Try playing the game from ancient.. research religion, send your warrior out looking for a world wonder, will probably find at least one within 10 tiles build a holy center asap and when you get first gov stick the prophet card in it and you'll probably get the 2nd or 3rd religion start. After that.. you ideally need to keep ai civs alive and make all their cities your religion. Good luck with that tho. If you wipe any civs out and your religion isn't the highest you might actually loose. So only wipe civs who are in the majority religion that isn't yours.

[Dray Prescot]

If Great Prophets are still available, then you need Great Prophet points to get one, which are NOT the same thing as the Faith Points you need to get a Pantheon Belief. (This is a common newbie mistake in Civ6). The later you start a game (what Era) the harder it will be to get a Religious Victory since you will have less time to spread your Religion to other Civs

[RajaAgni]

@Martin: Are you laughing at me? Me, me, me? I'l have you know I'm 8' 3" and 380 lbs. Well, just a tiny exageration, 5' 8" and 130 lbs. But my mind powers can reach across the net ..... sort of.

This is my 3rd run. I took all the defaults in my 1st run so started from the ancient era. I used the civilopedia heavily but there is much missing from it. It never said there was a limited number of prophets and I missed them in the first run. It also never said that prophets are not available if starting from later eras.

@Dray: I almost had a prophet in my first run. I was only some 40 points away from the 4th available one but it just disappeared. Some other civ must have bought it. That was the last one. As I said above, the civilopedia doesn't cover everything. But I did figure out early on in the 1st run that I needed great prophets points to obtain a great prophet and a pantheon belief first. (My great mind powers!) I also found out, but was too late, that the stone henge wonder would give a prophet.

[Fatal_Freedoms]

If they want an Atomic Era prophet they should have included an "L. Ron Hubbard" prophet. lol