Question about Holy points
 

How do I raise my holy score so that I can recruit more special units? I think I read that a civilization's holy score is related their dominion. However, it seems no matter how much dominion I spread, my holy points don't go up.

I'd really like to base my armies on the holy units toward mid to late game. Using the general ones can get kind of boring after awhile. Any advice on how to increase holy points? Thanks for the help.

Re: Question about Holy points
 

for every five temples your dominion increases by one.

Re: Question about Holy points
 

The Holy resource is determined by the level of dominion you choose when you create your pretender god (the number of candles you give him under the "Dominion" option, along with the scales like Order, Productivity and so on). Your pretender's dominion level sets the maximum number of candles you can have in any province, the rate at which your candles are produced, and your holy resource.

You can increase your pretender's effective dominion level y 1 for every five temples you build - i.e. the maximum number of candles per province and your holy resource will increase by 1 (the rate at which your candles spread will not, oddly).

Note that the actual number of candles you have in your provinces in the game doesn't affect your holy resource at all - only the dominion level of your god and your number of temples makes any difference.

Re: Question about Holy points
 

This is a bug. According to the manual every 5x more temple should make your dominion spread faster. I remember someone posting a while back saying they tested this with enough temples to get them to 10 dominion (100% chance spread per each temple check) and did not see the dominion spread that should have occurred.

I played a game with T'ien Ch'i where I bought a lot of temples easily exceeding Domininon 10, and I would agree with the person's assessment that it's not working properly.

Jazzepi

Re: Question about Holy points
 

It's a known, shortlisted bug.