Character Traits

[JohnS]

How does a Roman Governor upgrade its traits from 'army connections' to 'expert recruiter'? Does it have something to do with troops bring trained at the city he's in?

[FinnishedBarbarian]

Yup more you train better his recruitment ability gets to the point that troops recruited by him cost 30% less (acclaimed by soldiers), it's probably connected to the MIC (if there's no army buildings I suspect bad recruiter traits will appear) the city has and character's intelligence/charisma, for example in carthage's campaign one character (the one on ippone) has bad connections to start with and he usually goes all the way to terrible recruiter.

[JohnS]

Thanks! Is their a 'number' of troops or a min. number of troops that are needed to be trained before this trait increases?
The reason for this is I have a Governor really close to reaching the miniums in reaching the Augustan reforms.

[FinnishedBarbarian]

Looking at the descr_character_trait file only answer I got is that there's threshold of 4 so it's quite hard to say what the actual amount of units would it be, descr file also seems to point out that best chance for a character to get good recruiter traits is to build a city sized barracks (lvl 3 MIC).

In my romani campaign those fm's who had recruited about 16 units had always received atleast army connections and they didn't even build MIC's so I am pretty sure that expert recruiter will pop out for your faction leader if he recruits atleast 30 units (considering the fact that sharp/charismatic are likely to receive those easier).

[JohnS]

Thanks for all your help!
But I got one last thing, when looking up the traits and conditions to 'trigger' the Augustan reforms, i'm a little confused (this happens way too often) by what is meant by can't be selfless.

[FinnishedBarbarian]

Means he has to be selfish.

[Blxz]

Once you have had a guy for a few turns they get the "Selfish/Pessimistic/Disloyal" and "Selfless?/Optimistic/Loyal" traits. And of course a mixture of all of them. He can have either of the other two, but the first one must be selfish.