The Pope and his rewards

[Fulliautomatix]

I never really figured this out, and the various ideas behind it I read on these forums seemed mixed. However, the times I've received the most papal cash was when I played Poland, Hungary or Sicily. I don't think I ever received papal cash when playing France, England, Italy. So who knows.

A couple times the Pope handed me cash when they were getting pasted by the Italians. You would have thought they could have used the cash themselves to fight them off.

[Martok]

The phenomenon is random for the most part....although in my experience the Pope is especially generous to the English, French, and the Spanish most of all. Still, I don't think there's any particular rhyme or reason to who he gives money to and why. I just view it as one of the benefits of playing a Catholic faction.

@Fulliatomatix: You've received money from the Pope as the Polish and Hungarians? I've never heard of that before; in my games, he only gives cash to factions that can Crusade.

[Archayon]

i didn't read anything about the HRE here...

When i first played this game (i mean: in easy), i usually got money with the HRE, and very early on too (like in year 2 or 3 or something) --> i couldn't have done much by that time to please the pope, i think.

(i play vanilla MTW:VI)



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[Ciaran]

I´ve noticed I got his little rewards (by the time I received them they were little, considering my half-a-million+ treasury) pretty frequently when I fought against excommed factions, even more so than when I fought Muslims or other infidels. Building churches, or religious buildings in general, also seems to help, but the exact trigger for the gifts are a mystery - as is most of what the Pope does. He´s just plain weird most of his time.

[Martok]

Building churches, or religious buildings in general, also seems to help, but the exact trigger for the gifts are a mystery - as is most of what the Pope does. He´s just plain weird most of his time.

Yes, he is pretty weird! Personally, however, I think your description of him as "schizophrenic" in the other thread was more accurate. Hearing voices and seeing things would go a long way towards explaining his behavior....

[Fulliautomatix]

The phenomenon is random for the most part....although in my experience the Pope is especially generous to the English, French, and the Spanish most of all. Still, I don't think there's any particular rhyme or reason to who he gives money to and why. I just view it as one of the benefits of playing a Catholic faction.

@Fulliatomatix: You've received money from the Pope as the Polish and Hungarians? I've never heard of that before; in my games, he only gives cash to factions that can Crusade.

Martok: yes, weird, isn't it, that the Poles and Hungarians received cash, but it's happened to me more than once. However, I remember reading, a couple of years ago, a post on these forums (OK, true confessions, I've been reading these forums for years but never registered) which discussed papal cash and someone else experienced that as well; also, there was speculation that the Papacy is pre-disposed towards the Catholic countries on the edges of Catholicism (in other words, towards those Catholic countries that abut non-Catholic countries) that expand into non-Catholic areas. I noticed that I seemed to receive the papal cash as the Poles when I expanded into pagan modern Russia/Ukraine; and as the Hungarians, when I went after the Byzantines.

Also, this only ever happened in the early period.