Churches

[HapexIndustries]

How do you prevent churches from being built? I destroyed one with meteor and they just built another.

[Kleril]

Keep your faith reserves under 1,000. Once you hit a certain level of research they won't try building churches and you don't have to play around the limit, but I'm not sure exactly what that point is.

[HapexIndustries]

Yeah that seems to have done it.

[Yasic]

This is a lot harder than it seems. The damn people keep praying all the time >.>

[HapexIndustries]

It really is. I've had a little luck by keeping them EVIL, though even doing that seems like a lot of luck. Spamming SAMPLE and HUMAN cards seems to help as those are kinda pricy, as is QUAKE. PLAGUE costs 200 but I have yet to have them cure it so I hold back on that. It seems like at about 200 IQ they stop building churches, or maybe when they start building skytowers? Not sure.

[aub]

If you destroy the church with a Meteor it will reset their Faith, so if you're worried you might save a Meteor card.

[HapexIndustries]

In my experience they just build another one, but that was before the most recent patch.

[aub]

Yeah, it was changed. Worked for me.

[Regar]

why are churches bad ?

[Buntkreuz]

Churches are good if you want to spam your powers, they are bad when it comes to educational processes which means the IQ is limited to acertain degree.

You can destroy a church with a meteor, they will however build another one when you faith is above 1000.
To prevent that from happening you should avoid fulfilling their wishes and keep a low population.
A low population means less wishes.
That also means you have to wait for a power to be used since your faith generation is limited.
If you want them to progress further you have to balance between generating faith and not fulfilling their wishes and so stay on low faith.

As soon as you have plus 1000 faith they build a church providing endless power. As said above, destroying it will remove the endless symbol and show the faith in numbers, but as long as it stays above 1000 they rebuild it all the time. Basically when they built a church you cant progress anymore, because dropping below 1k is hard once got above it.

[Regar]

thats why i am stuck.
i never noticed that thx

[Buntkreuz]

have to add though. i dont know what happens when you research everything needed and then have them build a church. I mean the IQ gets locked but it probably doesnt matter when they flew to space or use portals and do whatever. But church is a blocker when you havent reached that beforehand.