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EDIT: Developer's official response:
Religious content will have to come in a future update unfortunately, but hey, I'm glad fleshing out religions isn't off the table! 👍
OG Post: To begin, I think it's awesome we've got magic in Worldbox now. Overall I'm very excited about all the new stuff coming in this update...
...That being said, based on what we've been shown, it doesn't seem like religions are functioning at all like religions should be. We weren't once shown characters worshipping at a temple, making offerings, praying to us, etc. Are those even in the update at all? If they're not, then religion may as well just be a mislabeled magic system that has nothing to do with actual religion.
No faith points to represent prayers/offerings to see whose the most worthy of divine intervention?
Do people build temples, pray and make offerings for their religion? Do religions have different traits which impact how people worship and to what? So far all we've been shown is that religion lets people use different magic.
Whoops, all magic! Where are the gods, Lebowski?
If magic is all religion is going to be then I must say, I'm disappointed. Religion should be so much more than just a glorified magic system. This is a god game. I want to feel like a god and be worshipped(atleast indirectly). I wanna have people send me prayers and based upon their beliefs and amount of faith, act accordingly.
I want people praying to differing kinds of gods(or none at all), polytheistic, monotheistic, atheistic, sea, justice, thunder, blood, war, fertility, science, etc. I wanna see these faiths make people pray and make offerings in differing ways(wealth, animals, elves). I wanna see faiths impact how kingdoms act with the world around them(bloodthirsty religions encourage war, peaceful ones discourage it).
Just to reiterate, I am very excited about magic and the update as whole. I will not however be satisfied with religion's implementation if it's just going to be mislabeled magic. I want religion to act like actual religions. Allowing followers to use magic should just be a cool feature, not it's main purpose.
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