Getting Ancillarys From Other Factions & Getting Elected

And so beings my ranting nagging questions... ~:confused:

Question: Can you get ancillarys from other faction's buildings?

I am fairly sure the answer is yes but have yet to see this in action. I know you get the +10% happyness etc... but what level shrine temple etc... does it need to be at to get a priest of x? or wise person of some kind from academies? When i invade a town, usually only the first level of the temple or shrine has been built even after 70+ years of game time.

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Question: What does the senate look for when electing an office?

someoen said you have to be elected to lower offices before moving up but to get into the lower office, as far as I can tell you try to give them as much influence as possible and hope you beat out the compettion. I know there are traits that give the senate more of a liking to you like 'politial' or 'politial animal' etc... but you're born with these...

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Question: Or can you somehow promote more political traits by doing something with the general/family member?

I know you can make them a conquering hero and all that, but that makes the people love... you not really the senate... or am i all screwed up here?

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I'm sorry if these questions have been answered already. Trust me I've looked through lots of threads and even beyond the eye of the needle ( no sence of humor? ) but no luck.

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Thanks again for the help guys. Usually I never have to post cuz you guys fill in all the gaps ( btw anyone else unimpressend with the documentation on RTW? no unit tech tree... got to look in the builing list plus i never knew to right click on the "army" "city" "agent" headers to bring up a full list of towns armies and agents, don't remember than in the prolouge) I especially love the guys who whip out the calculators and run computations and permutations on stats and write up the charts and line graphs on everything. Thanks.

And Thanks Again.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=37949

As far as getting othe factions ancillaries there is only 1 that I know of and that's the herbalist. Don't know wich temples give this ancillery but a look at the temples guide in the ludus magna should tell you.

As far as senate offices you have to work your way up. Theres only 1 way to to get a chance for a higher up position immediately and that is asassins. I had a game where all the senate positions were killed off but 2 of them. Even under that case you have to compete against 2 other factions for those open slots. So if you keep asassinating eventually it could end up with all your generals in position. There is no game difference with holding all the posititions of the senate other than the fact you will have a lot of high influence generals.

EDIT my bad this post did'nt get put in the Ludus magna but the link will get there.

1) Sometimes. It depends on the building and the faction. For instance, theaters only give Greek factions (Greek Cities, Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Thrace) Actors. On the other hand, they can give anyone Musicians. Check out export_descr_ancillaries.txt for the full list of culture restrictions. They exist in one of two places—either the ExcludeCultures field for the individual ancillary, or the FactionType condition for the ancillary's trigger.

2) I really don't know what influences the probability of being elected to the Senate. As far as I know, there have been no investigations. Of course, there are always the "electability" qualities of certain traits and ancillaries.

3) A number of acquirable ancillaries (such as Elder Senator, obtained by hanging around in cities with a curia) and traits (such as Deceiver_Virtue, largely obtained by ordering espionage, assassination, sabotage, and bribery, and by hanging around temples to Mercury) boost Senate popularity, and those often increase electability as well.

-Simetrical