Religions

[Spiltzer]

Looking at the Chirper Monument thread got me wondering:

Are religions represented in the game at all? I doubt it. The way SC 2013 did was quite pointless, imo. This could be a fun mod if possible. Create your own religion (ex. the church of chirper) and there are other religions around the city and draw an infographic map based on religious views.

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[taylorb]

I'm saying I don't think that is something that a lot of people will miss and that if you want churches throughout your cities then you will be able to download them and place them yourself. Since you don't want them to do anything special then they don't require anything to be done. They can just be a landmark for you that you can place throughout your residential areas.

 

[Sinname]

I don't know about America but I can speak for Northern Europe.

Here in Finland (in essence a very similar place to Sweden) people aren't very religious. Most of the population belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Finnish: Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko, Swedish: Evangelisk-lutheran kyrkan i Finland), which is also the national church (its position is mentioned in the constitution and it is one of the two churches that have the right to impose church tax, the other is the Orthodox church). People don't go to church very often but most Christian holidays are celebrated, especially Christmas (Fin: Joulu, Swe: Jul). We have churches, some of them dating as far as the High Middle Ages (the christianization of Finland) and those are beautiful stone churches. We have only a couple of cathedrals, f. ex. the Helsinki Cathedral (Fin: Helsingin tuomiokirkko, Swe: Helsingfors domkyrka).

Thanks for answer
It's quite interesting how people feels the religion in other countries.

 

[EvilTom]

Why not have it like a planning request?

You get a pop up message where some citizens want to build a house of worship. They propose a certain area within existing residential zones. You can say yes or no. You don't get a choice to plop it or not, but just to grant or deny their planning application. They chose where to put it (and tell you in application). Then a building will be converted or demolished and built up as a temple/house of worship.

This may increase you land values, but will act like a park/service where a number of people go there a day. this will cause traffic issues in the area too and you'll have to think about where you want it to be allowed.