22 civs - why didn't I found a pantheon?

[Imhotep]

I play with 22 civs. In my recent game, I never got to found a pantheon and in late game, I still barely have any religious followers. I have 1500+ faith.

I was wondering if the reason I didn't found a pantheon is because the game had run out of pantheon beliefs, but there are 26 of these and 22 civs. Does, perhaps, the game not allow any more pantheons to be founded after all the available religions are founded?

[Washell]

http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Religion_(Civ5)

Pantheons may not be founded anymore once any religion in the world has been enhanced

[Imhotep]

Thanks. That'll explain it.

[=|D3|= BAM BAM™]

I do this most run throughs (on Emporer difficulty): Build a Scout, then a Monument, then a Shrine, then rush the Great Library. I choose Liberty, and Pottery (then mining, then Writing). The scout is used to find Techs, Culture, and faith (finding a fatih boost is often enough to fund a pantheon early on -the first pantheon only costs around 30 faith. The longer you leave it the more faith it costs).

Completing the LIberty tree grants you a free great person -I'll often use this guy to fund a religion (Great Prophet), but a couple of cities with Shrines (+2 faith per turn), faith from religious city states, and faith found by my scouts often means I can use my free great person for rushing wonders (Great Engineer), or use a Great scientist to build a Science building.

Note: The Liberty Social Policy means you don't need to waste time building Workers/Settlers early on (you can always pinch an extra worker from other Nations/City States if you really need one).
-I'll often spend my first gold on a warrior/archer to defend my worker (your starting warrior also needs to help fight barbarians after a bit of scouting).

[Imhotep]

I usually make founding my own religion a priority and build a shrine before a monument, but I decided not to for this game.

I've decided to use the More Active Religions mod to increase the number of available religions on a large map from five to eight, when using 22 civs. In my current game, no-one on my continent founded a religion, and I'm in the middle of the 20th century with some cities not having more than 50% religious followers yet.

[civ]

Personally i go 2 scouts and finish pottery on the same turn the second scout is finished by min maxing, early scouts are super important if you're not playing on an islands/archipelago map. Based on what i find in the first 15 turns determines whether i open tradition or liberty if there is another civ close by i open liberty if there's no civs for miles i can actually skip the monument and get other crucial things like granary/ library. Monument is important for early settler but not so important otherwise. my 2 cents.

[=|D3|= BAM BAM™]

Interesting..., thats the beauty of this game I guess: so many options and different tactics. Btw: I wasn't trying to be patronizing Imhotep, its just with 33k players in game I thought I'd go into detail to help any rookies reading this (and funding a religion is never usually an issue with my playstyle).