[johan osterman]

Temples and prophets raise dominion the way Tacticus explained. Priests do not. Priests raise in some other way whose mechanisms I do not remember exactly, it is something like x+(priest lvl)y%. Where I do not recall the values of x and y. A high lvl priest also gains a chance of an additional raise, IIRC. Priests cannot however raise the dominion above their priest lvl.

Why should one be able to sneak search for sites? From a game mechanis perspective there certainly is little or no reason, since the sites one finds only benefit the owner. And argued from some sort of realism perspective either is as viable as the other, as there is no definitive authority on how mages go about searching for magic sites, as far as we know they might need to pound on enormous bells or light huge bonfires. It would also be odd if the owner of the province suddenly recieved a site he had not searched for from a searcher he did not know was there. The alternative would be to implement another layer of ownership on sites, but this is a lot of work for little or no benefit, complete with a whole new range of possible bugs and problems. Sneaky preach on the other hand can be useful when used against other players, and if you want an in game justification assume that they are preaching at secret meetings and handing out religous pamphlets and spray painting the religious slogans of their faith on enemy church walls.

Edit: Changed the * to a + in the formula.

[ January 18, 2004, 12:26: Message edited by: johan osterman ]