Two questions on preaching

[onomastikon]

J ostermann, you are / were on the dev team? wow ok thanks. So how can one go about figuring out how preaching works, or just sort of "ungefähr" how it works (um... "sort of" how it works, without the exact numbbers, but maybe just saying what factors x and y stand for?)

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by onomastikon:
J ostermann, you are / were on the dev team? wow ok thanks. So how can one go about figuring out how preaching works, or just sort of "ungefähr" how it works (um... "sort of" how it works, without the exact numbbers, but maybe just saying what factors x and y stand for?)

Well, kind of, most of the actual work is done by Kristoofer or Johan K. I do a little stuff occassionally though.

X is a value, 10 20 or 30 I think, y is a value, 20 or 30 IIRC.

[onomastikon]

thanks -- no I meant: not what number x and y be, but they are a variable standing for what "factor" (like is it: opposing dominion, number of temples, etc. etc.)?

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by onomastikon:
thanks -- no I meant: not what number x and y be, but they are a variable standing for what "factor" (like is it: opposing dominion, number of temples, etc. etc.)?

They are just arbitrary numbers. The x and y are constants, y is multiplied with the priest lvl. So x + y*(priest lvl) should be something like 20+20*2 = 60% for a 2lvl priest ie a 60% chance of the dominion increasing 1 step in the province where he preached.


Edit: Turns out there isn't any x involved. Just (priest lvl)*20.

[ January 18, 2004, 14:41: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

[Kristoffer O]

To clarify things I made a check in the code.

Temples increase priest lvl by one.

Chance of dominion increase:

In friendly dominion: (priest lvl)*20%
In enemy dominion: (priest lvl)*20-(enemy dom)*5%

Inquisitors priest lvl count double in enemy dominion.

So keep your weak sneaking priests in border provinces.

[onomastikon]

hey thanks

[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