Two questions on preaching

[Darryl]

When you say "temples increase priest level by 1" does that mean a temple in the province? 5 temples in your empire? 1 temple somewhere in your dominion? And I'm assuming the level increase is just for preaching, right?

Inquisitors priest lvl count double in enemy dominion.

Wow! And I'm playing Marginon now! Man, did I miss the memo or what! No wonder I couldn't raise my dominion in an enemy province until I sent in the High Inquisitor screaming about them being heathens, sex before marriage, worshipping pagan gods and all sorts of stuff. The annoying thing was they had an immoratal protecting the place. I'd kill him and he'd keep coming back until I "preached him down".

For some reason the description "Inquisitors are especially good at supressing enemy dominions" just seemed like "fluff language" to me. I didn't know they got an actual in game bonus.

Darryl

[johan osterman]

Temple in the province allows priests to preach as a priest 1 lvl higher. Every 5 temples increse max dominion spread lvl by 1.

[mivayan]

In enemy dominion: (priest lvl)*20-(enemy dom)*5%
Inquisitors priest lvl count double in enemy dominion.

So a ulm priest(default theme, lvl2 holy) preaching in -10 dominion has 2*20- 10*5 = -10 % chance of making a difference. no chance at all.

An iron faith priest (lvl3 priest, bonus praying in hostile dominion) would have 3*20*2 - 10*5 = 70% chance.

In -6 dominion the odds are 10% vs 90%.

In friendly dominion the odds are 40% vs 60.

All assuming iron faith priests gets the same bonus as marignon does.

Very interesting stuff.

[Silicor]

How would this work with multiple generic lvl 2 priests. Is each one handled individually, which would still not give them a chance in an enemy province or do the work together to get a better chance?

[Arryn]

Perhaps, with some future patch/mod, we can get priestly communion. Heck, religious communion should have been in the game from the start if there is wizardly communion.

[PvK]

I assume the preaching effects would be resolved in sequence, like other things seperate commanders do. That combined effect would already be pretty good.

There is something I don't quite understand going on with the effect of enemy dominion, though. I notice that provinces near enemy dominion have a lower level that "can't be raised any higher by preaching". My guess has been that every nation can have dominion in every province, and they subtract from each other somehow, in a slow process from turn to turn, and that dominion also slowly spreads from province to province. I don't particularly want to know all the details, since it is fun just seeing it be a bit unpredictable, but has someone explained how the dominions interact somewhere? Just curious.

PvK

[HJ]

Originally posted by PvK:
I don't particularly want to know all the details, since it is fun just seeing it be a bit unpredictable, but has someone explained how the dominions interact somewhere? Just curious.

PvK

There was a discussion about this a while back, but I don't think it was explained in great detail. The thread is here, it might give you some further info:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...4;t=000300;p=2

I am still a bit concerned with Fires of Faith Marignon and their insane dominion values. I gave up in one game I was playing against them, but their dominion at that point was at (-)19, meaning not even my lizard kings would be able to do anything about it. It's interesting to fight them, since you can't use either your god or your prophet really, but this also means that there is no way you can lower their dominion through preaching. A fun feature, but kinda worrysome when you think about it.

[ January 19, 2004, 07:20: Message edited by: HJ ]