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I had the majority of my provinces Jewish (11 out of 19). The Jewish rebels then won and enforced their demands. I lost 50 prestige and had a big hit to LA in all the occupied provinces. But my religion was still Coptic. (I've actually bug reported the matter...)

There was a bug related to this. Fixing it now. :)

Jewish religion is actually in its own group (not pagan) but I used a bad template file when I did the results of enforcing demands.
 

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Thanks :D

p.s. is this going to make it into a hotfix or am I going to have to wait for the next major patch to make Jewish Ethiopia? ;)
 
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They probably wanted us to discover it.
I should point out that I was NOT the first one to document this, PhroX reported the Jewish rebels not acting before I notice the change.
Credit where credit is due lol
 

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They probably wanted us to discover it.
I should point out that I was NOT the first one to document this, PhroX reported the Jewish rebels not acting before I notice the change.
Credit where credit is due lol

Heh. It's kinda funny as I had no idea of it when I started the game. I was planning on getting the Preser John achievement playing as a conventionally Coptic Ethiopia. It was only when, 15 or so years into the game, when I picked up an Inquisitor, thus giving me enough Missionary strength to actually do anything, that I went to my religion screen and suddenly noticed a rather odd symbol in the info for one of my provinces. At that point, I couldn't resist trying to become Jewish (and then I probably would've tried to switch to a Merchant Republic too, because, yay, stereotypes :p)
 

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(and then I probably would've tried to switch to a Merchant Republic too, because, yay, stereotypes :p)

I do enjoy stereotypes
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So that means we could see a Bogomilist province in Bosnia some day?
 

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That is so much trade power.

Building power cost is also nice, and missionary strength for Jews because they have weak missionaries.
 

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I just wished they had mechanics, like the Norse ones.
Wiz said they were adding flavor for the new religions for the Nation Creator. I just wish they had good bonuses lol.

lol PhroX I was just eying the religious map around the world in game start screen, at first I thought it was just Animist but then boom it hit me, they didnt even put on the patch notes for 1.11.2 that they fix the issue with Jewish rebels lol.
EDIT:I misread they said they are FIXING IT now, I thought they said they FIX IT now ;_;
 
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Wiz said they were adding flavor for the new religions for the Nation Creator. I just wish they had good bonuses lol.

don't knock the current bonus. An extra adviser for each field adds more variety in who you can hire, and +2 true faith means -2 unrest in all state religions which isn't bad

it's def not the best but not the worst by far
 

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Im rather tempted now to try for a Prester John jewish run... But at the same time i want to wait and see if we'll get any jewish related achievements so i can go for those at the same time.

Do you lose out on the portugal events if you're not christian anymore?