Benefits of schools

**Gunzak** · 11-26-2008, 09:43

How much of a benefit does a school provide to a new faction general? How long should they be in the territory to get an education? Do they have to be the ruler of the province or do all generals receive the same benefit? Is there a much bigger benefit to having a library or academy?

What I typically do is build schools in every territory I can and usually have all my new generals in the same territory to train up for a few years but I definetely see some big benefit if the person is also the govenor of the province. I have some govenors that have like +7/8 for both management and influence after a about 5 years as a govenor while the young generals in training never get anything like that even with the same time in a province with a school and with good traits.

Can schools also provide bad traits? I had a young general in a province with a school for a few years and afterwards he got a -4 to unrest from bad traits he picked up. I could use him to attack territories but if he was a govenor it would case huge unrest penalties.

**ludwag** · 11-26-2008, 09:50

I planned to ask just the same. Allways wondered about stuff like that.

**Cute Wolf** · 11-26-2008, 10:12

You must think reallisticallyyy...

In most school and university, there was bullying, cheating, fighting, put pranks on teachers, peeking into the girl's changing room/toilet, copying homeworks, smoking and drinking beers behind classes, sleep in the class, share porn with friends, stealing girl's underwears, and etc... the same just as realistically happned in Ancient school in Athena, Alexandria, or Roma...

Just don't be surprised if your FM got some bad traits in school

**SwissBarbar** · 11-26-2008, 10:26

did the girl go to school at all? lol

**Cute Wolf** · 11-26-2008, 10:46

Historically, the roman and greek girls are goes to school too

... they only dropped out earlier because they will be married... if they don't in EB, I'll bet that the school for FM has at least some slave-girls to clean up the boys' mess,... they can be the initiator that give the pervert traits...

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it was partytime in school for our 16 years old Didius Manius Vitulasius

**Gunzak** · 11-27-2008, 00:25

Not quite sure how chasing after girls panties and bullying helps answer my question but thank you for the advice :)

**Intranetusa** · 11-28-2008, 00:01

Originally Posted by Cute Wolf

Historically, the roman and greek girls are goes to school too

... they only dropped out earlier because they will be married... if they don't in EB, I'll bet that the school for FM has at least some slave-girls to clean up the boys' mess,... they can be the initiator that give the pervert traits...

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it was partytime in school for our 16 years old Didius Manius Vitulasius

Umm...no, I believe Roman and Greek girls did not go to school. If they lived in a rich family, then they were taught by slaves or servants to read/write, but they were not allowed to formal schools. They mostly learned how to become housewives.

**zooeyglass** · 11-27-2008, 13:28

Originally Posted by Gunzak

How much of a benefit does a school provide to a new faction general? How long should they be in the territory to get an education? Do they have to be the ruler of the province or do all generals receive the same benefit? Is there a much bigger benefit to having a library or academy?

What I typically do is build schools in every territory I can and usually have all my new generals in the same territory to train up for a few years but I definetely see some big benefit if the person is also the govenor of the province. I have some govenors that have like +7/8 for both management and influence after a about 5 years as a govenor while the young generals in training never get anything like that even with the same time in a province with a school and with good traits.

Can schools also provide bad traits? I had a young general in a province with a school for a few years and afterwards he got a -4 to unrest from bad traits he picked up. I could use him to attack territories but if he was a govenor it would case huge unrest penalties.

- A school will benefit a faction general or any FM if they spend time in the settlement where the school is. How much is hard to quantify though. But a good couple of years is advised - 8 - 10 turns to really start seeing them gaining traits and ancillaries.

- They don't have to rule a province to gain benefits from a school, but I believe that the governor might gain more traits/ancillaries than non-governors - I am still testing this out.

- Bigger the school (i.e. academy/library), more benefits to gain.

- If you are building up schools in every territory, you don't need to keep all your new FMs in one territory - any settlement with a school will work.

- As already noted, you can gain bad traits like bookworm and a few others from excessive training.

**Gunzak** · 11-27-2008, 20:34

The reason I placed a school, library or academy in every city was to try and give even more training to the govenors of each settlement. I don't know how much benefit it had overall but I did see some amazing generals after about 5 years from ruling a settlement with a school.

I also got some amazingly bad govenors too. I had one that had a -4 happiness penalty from bad traits. He had descent management and influence but with so much negative happiness cities would go from green to red with him incharge.