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Leugi's Ritual Practices (Pantheon Rework)

Flavour Changes

• Pantheons are now known as Ritual Practices. The flavour is less focused on "the specific nature god your civ is following" and more on "the rituals your people are officially adopting as they develop their identity".
  
• Because of this different concept, all Pantheon Beliefs have been renamed into historical Ritual Practices with many of their icons changed to reflect their new names.
  
• Mysticism was renamed to "Consecration" to further enhance this flavour
  
• Ritual Practices remain mostly focused on buffing the Altar building, since this still plays well with the concept.

Gameplay Changes

• Unlike Pantheons, Ritual Practices are not blocked when another player picks them. Ritual Practices are shared among different civilizations in history, as the focus is no longer on "this god is better than this one" or whatever. Some text has also been changed to reflect this change and flavour.
  
• Additionally, you can earn more Ritual Practices when completing research on the Public Life and the Entertainment civics. This allows you to fully customize your rituals and allowing a more varied gameplay evein without claiming. Your people are developing a sense of their own sacrality as the Antiquity age progresses.
  
• The AI also gets to pick 3 bonuses over time; and Maurya still gets one extra Ritual Practice.

New Beliefs

To further enhance the gameplay changes and to add more variety in gameplay, 4 new Ritual Practices were added and 2 were slightly tweaked:

• Anointing Oils: +10% Production towards training Commanders and Great Person Units in Cities with an Altar.
  
• Scripture Reading: Altars gain a Codex slot. Grants a Codex after building an Altar in the Capital.
  
• Almsgiving Rounds: Altars increase the Resource Capacity of their Settlements by 1.
  
• Spirit Houses: +50% Production towards constructing Altars.

Additionally Oral Tradition (now Trail Marking) and Trickster God (now Divination Methods) were slightly tweaked:

• Trail Marking: +10% Production towards training Settlers, Scouts and Merchants in Cities with an Altar.
  (Added Scouts and Merchants to increase the flavour of setting sacred markers over a path like Inukshuk or Apachetas)
  
• Divination Methods: +15% Influence towards Endeavors, Sanctions and the Befriend Independent action with an Altar in the Capital. (Reduced the percentage slilghtly but added the bonus to befriend independents allowing the belief to be more useful overall)

In case you like some parts of the mod but not others you can customize your experience by deleting/renaming specific folders within the mod's files without issue. Namely:

• To disable the Flavour changes (texts, icons and naming) you can delete the "PantheonRenames" folder. (if you do this the new Beliefs also receive names that fit the old flavour)
  
• To disable the Gameplay changes (more than one Ritual Practice and they can be picked by anyone without claims) you can delete the "PantheonGameplaychanges" folder.
  
• To disable the new and reworked Beliefs you can delete the "NewPantheons" folder.

In larger maps you might see the AI taking multiple instances of Scirpture Reading. This only happens when all other options are already claimed by other civilizations. This is a known issue and for now I dont have a way to fix it, however it doesn't always happen and most AIs get to pick more varied rituals.

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