Converting to Orthodox...

[Jerzul]

Is it me or does it seem like a fundamental flaw that unless you are part of the western Christian community you cannot choose your religion, and even then you only have three choices.

I had never really thought about it until I had force converted a large Muscovy to Catholic...pretty much wiping out the last Orthodox country in my game.

I feel like there should be some simple religious decisions that should allow a nation to convert to religion A if it's capital is religion A, OR if some percentage (33%, 51%, etc) of its controlled (or cored) provinces were of that religion.

I mean would Muscovy stay Catholic after the attention of the western powers were taken elsewhere? Heck no, they'd go right back to their old ways!

I think this could also add to the fun of playing the game as it could allow for some interesting religious changes. I realize that this could be exploited, but in a game like this people should be able to do what they want in a SP, and in an MP there are house rules.

 

[sprites]

if you force convert comeone in the three choices , chances are they will reconvert early
and except by rebel surrender and bankrupty you can't switch between orthodox and western christianism

 

[Jerzul]

if you force convert comeone in the three choices , chances are they will reconvert early
and except by rebel surrender and bankrupty you can't switch between orthodox and western christianism

Yes, I am aware of that, hence why I am arguing for an ability to convert to a different religion (not just the choice between Catholic, Protestant, and Reformed). And for country's outside of europe too...

Thanks for playing though...

 

[PanzerWilly]

I'd like to be able to convert to Shiite from Sunni as well.

Edit: Fixed

 

[Hidden Legend]

I think that it misses more options for how to be tollerant now that the sliders which the game had earlier had been removed. The only thing that bothers me is that the only thing that spreads with tolleration is the Refermation.

 

[unmerged(122389)]

I'd like to be able to convert to Shite from Sunni as well.

Just wanted to point that out.

 

[naggy]

Within the game's time period, almost no one converted religion outside the conversion that is represented in game. Hence why the options aren't there.

 

[Dafool]

I can already see the slider move event that makes a province Orthodox going off. Oh look, now Austria, has an orthodox province. Look who's lost their forts via events too! What! Now Austria is suddenly Orthodox due to rebels. And combined with Austria's blobby attitude, this can only be a recipe for ahistorical mayhem: the bane of all PI players.

 

[anomanderus]

Within the game's time period, almost no one converted religion outside the conversion that is represented in game. Hence why the options aren't there.

Except for Persia constantly spawning as sunni, which wipes out most of the shiites. And the fact that 3 xpacs later, still no "Birth of the Sikh religion" event for hinduism.

 

[Pasta_Man]

Just wanted to point that out.

I bet that was an "oops" moment

D'oh! Forgot the multiquote. An actual oops moment.

 

[PanzerWilly]

Just wanted to point that out.

Guess it's easy to convert to shite if you want to. I do that to my food everyday. Boom!

 

[unmerged(90861)]

Yeah, I agree that there should be an option for western Christians to change their religion to Orthodox Ch.

 

[anomanderus]

Yeah, I agree that there should be an option for western Christians to change their religion to Orthodox Ch.

No, western christians are pig, disgusting. They do not deserve the light and perfection that is orthodoxy. let them stew in their heresy, until mother russia comes to rule them all.

 

[richie]

Within the game's time period, almost no one converted religion outside the conversion that is represented in game. Hence why the options aren't there.

Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there was a time for Lithuania converting from catholic to orthodox and back.

 

[naggy]

Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there was a time for Lithuania converting from catholic to orthodox and back.

Note "almost".

 

[ADP101]

As mentioned before there should be a Sunni - Shiite decision. I know that the Bahamanis (Deccan in vanilla) were shiite, then sunni, then shiite then sunni again. :wacko:. And its a safe bet that many other sultantes in Persia and Arabia were too.

 

[JKNUBZ]

As mentioned before there should be a Sunni - Shiite decision.

Yeah, I want to play Persia without a 20% tax penalty!

 

[Jerzul]

So does anyone here have the mod skills to make a decision like what I asked for above?

 

[unmerged(148296)]

well Shiites were traditionally rebels. I think there should be ways to change religion, just it should be very hard. There have been cases where a nation ends up entirely one religion, but governed by another. it would be nice if rebels or maybe a cb would allow it.

 

[nestorius]

Well lots of pagan countries changed to Christian particularly the American ones and this is not really represented. I realise that most were conquered though this wasn't the case with the North American ones.

I do think that there should be options to change to orthodox for the catholic states or to change to other religions, after all lets say that Russia went on a conquering spree and took over most of Europe its smaller neighbours may wish to convert, same if the Ottomans did a similar thing.