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Just started a new game as Maurya for their Achievement which is mostly about converting to Buddhism. Read up a bit on the wiki but their information seems to be outdated claiming you should be able to convert almost right away but my game is showing a 7% gap in the population, that is I need 20% and only start with 13% and even with Syncronizing Buddhism to prevent their conversion and using the Omen for some free conversion, it seems like the population of India is gonna grow faster than I can generation new Buddhists and while there is some more Buddhist population in India I have yet to conquer, I'm not sure I functionally can make up this 7% gap keeping me from conversion.

Am I missing something? Are there maybe events that I need to rely on related to Ashoka or the conquest of Kalinga?

The achievement calls for the near total conversion of India so the sooner I properly start the better. Anyone have advice on how to best rush the Maurya conversion to Buddhism?
 

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Apparently the tool tip is just wrong, now I'm unclear on what the requirements to convert to another religion are, but I was able to convert just needed the 200 PP
 
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It's either 20% of the overall population or 50% of free pops in the capitol territory. Maurya has that second one, with almost the entire population in their capitol territory (and indeed their whole central province) being Buddhist. The tooltip is rather confusing, but Maurya is one of the few nations actually in a position to convert (and I'm fairly certain they are the only one that fits the second criterion).
 
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First of all, the requirements to enable the decision are as such :
View attachment 732828
(example from the wiki for Buddhism)

Here I will only cover about how to meet the pop requirements.
As you already know there are two options :
- at least 50% of your non-slave pops in the capital following the target religion
OR
- at least 20% of the population following the target religion and have at least one of their deities in your pantheon

Passing the threshold of 20% of your population following the target religion isn't always possible, especially if you are big and the target religion has few followers.

The process of setting up your capital with 50% non-slave pops following the new religion can feel quite tricky too and might involve frustrating RNG.

Here is a strategy to go through it in a reliable way.

Step 1
Move slave pops following target religion to a territory next to your capital (as many as you can). Disable slave promotion in that territory.

Step 2
Empty your capital territory of all its slave pops so that they don't interfere.

Step 3
Set one of the cultures in your realm to slave civic rights. That culture should have enough slave pops to fill up a territory. Slave pops belonging to that culture do not need to follow any particular religion (but preferably not the target religion).

Step 4
Flood your capital territory with slaves belonging to the enslaved culture. This should create a lot of overpopulation which will result in many of your non-slave pops in that territory to migrate away.

Step 5
Your capital territory should now be mostly composed of slave pops who cannot promote. This is the part where you can bring in the slave pops from step 1. Since these pops are the only ones who can promote, that should quickly get you to the 50% threshold.

Bonus
To speed up the process, you can get the livestock trade surplus (+25% pop promotion speed) and the Social Mobility governor policy.
Quoting my own thread. Hope this can help.
 

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Needs a rework for sure, as it stands unless Maurya converts early the number of buddhists is too small for the religion to grow and thus for anyone else to convert.

My dreams of playing a proper Indo-Greek kingdom without mods/cheats are ruined.