How to disable religion ???

[mrmike_49]

I know it is possible to disable religion, I had it disabled previously. But then I hit the RESET button by mistake and that cancelled whatever I had done to disable religion.

Now I can't remember how to disable religion

[Flip]

the two methods I know of are:
1. start in a very late era (not sure when religion is being disabled, but I'm 100% sure it is if you start in the information era)
2. find CIV5Worlds.xml and change the 'max religion' value to 0 (if you have all DLCs you'll have to change it in all three textfiles)

[Gronmor]

I don't think you can... While religion by itself doesn't give you a victory, it can help open the path to other victories. Sharing a religion with other civilizations give you a bonus modifier in tourism. Voting for a World Religion gives those that follow it a bonus in the number of delegates AND, if you have the Holy City for that religion, a bonus in Tourism. That kind of stuff.

So, yeah, Religion still plays a part of winning. So I don't think it can be removed, at least not without modifying files or using mods or something... Still, you can win while pretty much ignoring it completely, so, whatever!

[32x32 Riker jpeg]

I think you can disable it in the advanced game setup? Don't quote me on that.

[mrmike_49]

Finally able to disable religion by editing several XML files!

I think I disabled it several different ways:

In the "ERA" xml files, there was an entry for each era on "DISABLE RELIGION", set False for early Eras, True for after Renaissance, so set all Eras to True

In "Gameplay" xml files, the "Disable Religion" visibility to "1" ( this in multiple files). This causes a "DISABLE RELIGION" button to show up in the Advanced Set-up screen

Never did find "MAX RELIGIONS" though?

[Rin rolf]

i found a way to add the option in advanced setup.

go to Sid Meier's Civilization V\Assets\Gameplay\XML\GameInfo\CIV5GameOptions.xml

in notepad, find "NO_SCIENCE"

above that entry, in between '<row>' entries, add

<Row>
<Type>GAMEOPTION_NO_RELIGION</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION</Description>
<Help>TXT_KEY_GAME_OPTION_NO_RELIGION_HELP</Help>
<Visible>1</Visible>
</Row>

it doesn't show up there because they removed it from the file... for whatever reason.. maybe the devs are trying to make it as difficult as possible to play without religion. idk.

but start the game up and you should see it in advanced game options. make sure it looks like all the other entries around it.

[linda6943]

One (rather primitive) way to disable religion is to disable both Gods and Kings and Brave New World. This produces a "hybrid" vanilla game: vanilla rules (no composite bowmen, shorter wait time for Iron, but all the extra opponents except the ones specific to BNW: yes to Korea, Spain, Denmark etc., but no Shoshone, Netherlands, or Sweden, for example.) If you remember before there was any DLC for Civ V, you also can't Culture- or Citadel-bomb to gain "free" tiles around your cities.

My favorite style is to play midway between the two extremes: disable BNW, but leave in Gods and Kings. This gives you a game that still has you building the Utopia Project, but you don't have the aggravation (to me) of all that tourist popularity thing. You still have religion, but it doesn't play such a vital part.

And to answer another question as to why a person doesn't want to deal with religion: two possible reasons:
1. The player is a firm atheist, to whom religion is anathema,
or:
2. The player takes his/her own beliefs seriously enough that it seems a little blasphemous to use faith as a plaything.

[Grendalcat]

Well throughout history most people have believed in one religion or another. And there are usually several religions competing for followers, at least in the big cities. So for me a history simulation game would be less realistic without religion. To each their own though.

[Gwizzz]

Religion adds another layer of complexity to Civ V. The perks you get for founding a pantheon/religion can be very useful especially in the early game. I took Faith Healers to help my warriors quickly heal next to my city and survive the barbarian hordes. And, managing the spread of religion with missionaries, inquisitors and "religious pressure" is almost a minigame. My last match I had 75% of the world under my world religion. I even snuffed out one religion completly using an inquisitor in a captured city.

Dont disable it...embrace it.

[Veeron]

Why are you necro posting? The OP said they found a solution on 25 Jun, 2017 @ 9:15pm.

[linda6943]

Veeron, it didn't show up on my list when I searched for "disable religion."
"Necro posting." Hmmm. I've never heard the term before. It's an apt description, though.

[Grendalcat]

Oh a fair bit of necromancing goes on around here.

[Gwizzz]

Oh no a necro post. Shield your eyes children lest ye gaze on the sacred text of the past.

Both posters added additional info that could help someone else so the necro call is uncalled for.

It appeared recent to me so I posted. Then you posted about posting, and now IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE!

[Gwizzz]

Could always lock it and make someone start a new thread. Yeah...that makes sense.

[saphir]

use notepad++
do "search in files" in "Steam\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V"
and replace any "<NoReligion>false</NoReligion>" with "<NoReligion>true</NoReligion>"

This do before set up a game, as this is stored in the ..Civ5Save
you can't change it after start.

AI civs which prefer religious development pathes will lack in research as they still run the religion research pathes. (i.e. Spain)

[knighttemplar1960]

Holy necromancy Batman!