Gifts..

[Ibn-Khaldun]

IIRC then the last mission was to take Antwerp..

But I completed that mission 4 turns ago and I got my reward .. 4 units of peasants

Sometimes I just don't understand this AI!

[glyphz]

Both the Council of Nobles and the Pope do give gifts (a show of 'appreciation' for your hardwork and obedience) but we can probably only speculate when this actually happens.
A possible theory is having a high standing (if there is a Council-O-Meter, like the Pope-O-Meter), plus consecutive Missions completed. One hitch is that, say, in every campaign you try to do the missions, gifts of gold rarely happens. (Say in 10+ catholic campaigns i started in vanilla, I only got a gift from the Pope once, the same with CofN... Yes, and i try to be obey missions as much as I can).

We could speculate, than other than very good or maybe perfect relations, and finishing missions, there could be some other factor/s that affect the chances...
Say how fast you finish missions (# of turns it took you to finish compared to the # of turns alloted for the mission), or maybe finishing multiple missions within a short amount of time (i.e. 5 council missions within, say, 13 turn).
We could also add another guess, thta like the guild points system where there is a quota leading to a gift, (points that could come from what was mentioned in the previous paragraph), and perhaps a minus point at the start of each new turn. If that was the case, what can ruin your chances are the difficulty of the missions given, or say a case where after receiving/completing 3 consecutive council missions (fast, I assume) you get a papal mission that may ruin your momentum.

Or, it could be something much much simpler, where if you a mission, there is a 5% chance of getting a gift (higher/lower depending on difficulty)

Or it could be something entirely different...

Bah, who knows. We can only discuss and speculate...

[TheLastPrivate]

Yah, it seems it awards players who have followed their requests well. Either way, I'm not complaining about anything free :p