Learning stuctures.

[therother]

where do you guys get that gen characteristics are affected by the academy line? there's no indication of this in the data file at all.

I believe you are right here. There is no indication that the family member himself goes to the academy, unless it is hard-coded.

Also, the health guy(s) is from the temple. You can get it with as many family members as you have sitting in the city. However, the academy specific retinue seem to occur only once. Usually it takes 1-3 turns for all the retinue to pop up, but once they do, they never appear again -- the academy is "drained" and thus useless.

I think you are wrong here. If you put a new guy in, with no ancillary characters, he will acquire them even if others have just got them. I've never had an academy exhausted, and I move retinue characters around religiously.

Edit: Sorry, just saw your post now.

Plus the better the academy, the more advanced characters that are available, i.e. you need a Scriptorium to get the Geographer, and a Ludus Magna to get the Rhetorician.

[Dorkus]

has anyone else experienced the 'burst'? I tend to use my generals in battle all the time, so I don't get too many academy bred retinue. But i've had reasonable success with recently built academies. If i leave a general in for one turn, it seems that the odds are pretty good that he'll get something. usually quite a few things.

The regions i generally build the academy line in are carthage and athens.