Preist question

Merry Jolkar · #1 August 9th, 2004, 01:06 AM

If my dominion is maxed out so that a priest preaching the word of my god cannot increase it, will his preaching be worthless, or will it spill over into adjacent provinces?
Thanks,
Merry

archaeolept · #2 August 9th, 2004, 01:13 AM

i think its generally worthless, except as to defending your dominion against encroaching ones. however, if the priest is deep in your dominion, i don't believe it does anything.

Norfleet · #3 August 9th, 2004, 01:31 AM

It is useless, unless you expect attacks on your dominion strength due to the presence of neighboring temples or enemy preachers. It will not increase your dominion strength above priest rank(+1 if a friendly temple is present, +2 for ceremonial faith), but it CAN buffer your dominion from being decreased below that number.

However, it does have one positive benefit, even though the actual preaching is useless: A priest set to preach will no longer badger you when you press the "n" key.

Arryn · #4 August 9th, 2004, 01:49 AM

Please read Ceremony's excellent PDF guide to dominion-related matters, available for download from my site at this link.

EDIT: removed brain cramp

Norfleet · #5 August 9th, 2004, 02:51 AM

Preaching has no adjacency effect, Arryn. Preaching only affects the current province, ever. If you preach in a province where your dominion is already as high as that preacher can get it to go, it has no additional effect unless something attacks your dominion to lower it, in which case the preaching serves as a buffer against having your dominion drop below that point, if you have enough people preaching. You ARE, however, allowed to order the preaching.

Thilock_Dominus · #6 August 9th, 2004, 04:42 AM

You could say it's worthless. But preaching can be a good tool to preventing enemy dominion spreading or lowering your dominions.
What I do is placing priests along the borders to the enemy(ies) and set them to preach 24/7 and if posssible built temples there (depends on the circumstances).

best regards
Thilock

Norfleet · #7 August 9th, 2004, 05:36 AM

That's the "buffer" effect, but like I said, this only applies if your dominion is in a shaky state that is borderline of what the priest can produce, and is being attacked by hostile dominion. If you have a solid dominion that is well above what your priest can provide, he's not actually doing anything.