The King's acumen

[Matty]

What impact does the King's (and his sons) acumen have when they cannot be governors?

[amritochates]

The Kings Acumen Boosts the Income of your nation as a whole. For Ex. If the total income of your kingdom per se is X Florins, it will be boosted by the factor Y where is your Kings acumen to get the final income XY.

And the same shall hold true for your prince when he is annointed King, and those that do not suceed to the throne but are set aside can be used as governors, i.e all the present King's Uncles will be usable as governors as soon as his son takes the throne.

[Grey_Fox]

I believe that every quill of acumen increases the Kingdom's tax revenue by 5%.

[yesdachi]

I believe that every quill of acumen increases the Kingdom's tax revenue by 5%.

i thought it was 2% per quill?!?!

[Procrustes]

i thought it was 2% per quill?!?!

I think it may be 5% for governors (provincial income) and less (2%) for the king's accumen and the federal income.

[EatYerGreens]

Seems to be a wide difference of opinion here, so apologies for adding to the confusion.

Thanks to some borderline-obsessive note-taking, I can confirm that, with governors, I was seeing approximetely 10% boost in income levels, per acumen feather. Notes are best done right at the start of the campaign, before any land improvements have gone in and before govs have been assigned. Get the 'base' output of each province first.

Not obsessive enough with the notes, however. I hitherto assumed that the King's acumen rating was largely academic, so I ignored it and didn't make note of that. (I have since found that NAMES.TXT or DEFAULT_HEROES.TXT contains kings' starting Cmd/Acumen/vnvs etc, so this can be looked up).

I'm on about my third Emperor (Byz, Early) in this campaign, so fluctuations in leader acumen may have happened, yet I still reckon I'm getting 10% per feather out of my govs.

To test for yourself: after you've conquered a province and have the provincial title ready to assign and a candidate govenor ready, right-click to bring up the province parchment, note down the income level, then drop the title on the gov (you can do this with the parchment still open, if you like). Compare the new value with the old and see what boost you get.

Interestingly, Ac-4 was giving me 40% plus some decimal points, so it's not exact and it suggests that king's acumen does play a part, so make a note of this as well.

If I come up with any useful new information, I'll post again.

EDIT: I have yet to build a Chancellery, if that's a help. I forget if an acumen-booster comes with it but it will be interesting to see if it boosts just one Gov's province or the entire economy.

[NodachiSam]

I'm glad it does something. It is a shame you can't give family titles, it would be worth doing even though they would lose them when the ascend the throne or die.

[EatYerGreens]

Thanks to Ludens, as usual

I have registered at the com, fairly recently but I was after something specific (technical) so, stickied or not, I didn't see it. Come to think of it, I think I've only visited there twice so far.