Office Given to Subordinate

**Cazbol** · 05-02-2015, 00:34

One reason for reduced loyalty is "Office given to subordinate". What defines a subordinate? Is it influence, age or something else?

**Bramborough** · 05-02-2015, 00:45

It's their experience rank. The little stars next to their portrait. So, if a 7-star guy sees a 5-star guy get appointed into an office, he gets cranky.

The problem is, often these high-experience/rank guys, especially if they're army generals and haven't fought for a while, don't have enough influence for an office. The solution would be to swap characters regularly back and forth between field command and governorships, so that they're continuously earning influence and always have enough for an office every 8 turns.

The good news is that the loyalty hit isn't that big, and can be countered politically by one of the wives.

**Cazbol** · 05-02-2015, 01:22

Will higher rank men only take offense if they don't have an office themselves? Does it then matter if the higher ranked has a lower office?

**Bramborough** · 05-02-2015, 12:31

Good question...I guess I haven't looked closely enough to answer definitively. I suspect that there's still a loyalty hit, but perhaps somewhat less than the full -4.