What determines which religion the computer will found?
Solution 1:
Each civilization has a favored religion which it will try to found.
Because most of the civilizations favored Christanity in Gods & Kings, that religion was split into three "sub-religions" in Brave new world; Protestantism Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
So the chance of a religion being founded in a certain game depends on the civilizations you're facing.
In Gods and Kings these are the favored religions for each civilization:
- America: Christianity
- Arabia: Islam
- Aztecs: Christianity
- China: Taoism
- Egypt: Islam
- England: Christianity
- France: Christianity
- Germany: Christianity
- Greece: Christianity
- India: Hinduism
- Iroquois: Christianity
- Japan: Shinto
- Ottomans: Islam
- Persia: Zoroastrianism
- Rome: Christianity
- Russia: Christianity
- Siam: Buddhism
- Songhai: Islam
- Austria: Christianity
- Byzantium: Christianity
- Carthage: Islam
- Celts: Christianity
- Ethiopia: Christianity
- Huns: Tengriism
- Maya: Christianity
- Netherlands: Christianity
- Sweden: Christianity
- Spain: Christianity
- Mongols: Tengriism
- Inca: Christianity
- Polynesia: Christianity
- Denmark: Christianity
- Korea: Confucianism
- Babylon: Islam
Source: Civfanatics forums