For any deity players - do you tend to just skip religion completely, or do you manage to make some use out of it? I generally find getting a pantheon to be worth the minimal hammers/cost of an initial shrine, but after that even if I beeline and grab stonehenge and play a religious civ like celts/ethiopia etc, while I will get one of if not the first religion I still can not compete with the AI who seems to be able to produce a missionary every turn while it takes me many turns to get enough faith for a missionary myself. Lately I've stopped bothering with the religion thing altogether, just get my pantheon, sell my shrine(s) and take whatever religion the AI has. It would be nice if there were a way to ban foreign missionaries from entering one's territory if you don't have open borders. I know they have the attrition thing but it really isn't enough.
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