Guilds (and what they do)

[Kekvit Irae]

Apparently certain regions are marked for certain guilds. When I looked into the descr_regions.txt file of the No Brigands/No Pirates mod, I noticed that a few regions have guilds in them. (ignore the no_brigands and no_pirates flags, these are included in the mod)

Nottingham_Province
	Nottingham
	england
	English_Rebels
	232 41 198
	dyes, wool, atlantic, explorers_guild, woodsmens_guild, no_pirates, no_brigands
	5
	5
	religions { catholic 90 orthodox 0 islam 0 pagan 5 heretic 5 }

This leads me to believe that only certain regions can get the explorers guild or a woodsmens guild, as noted by the absence of either in Venice...

Venice_Province
	Venice
	venice
	Italian_Rebels
	13 198 117
	textiles, no_pirates, no_brigands
	5
	9
	religions { catholic 95 orthodox 0 islam 0 pagan 3 heretic 2 }

Some are even marked as locations of chapter houses...

Hamburg_Province
	Hamburg
	hre
	German_Rebels
	232 198 41
	silver, atlantic, explorers_guild, teutonic_knights_chapter_house, no_pirates, no_brigands
	5
	6
	religions { catholic 75 orthodox 0 islam 0 pagan 20 heretic 5 }

[Jammer]

Templar's Guild offered to me early as the Scots in Wales (Caenarvon). Not sure what the specific trigger was, but the offer came soon after building a blacksmith. As others have mentioned, good standing with the Pope may make a critical difference in getting the different knight's guilds.

Through some testing, I agree that specializing the builds in different cities/castles has an effect on guild offers.

Kekvit Irae seems to have the inside scoop from the descr_regions file.

[Shahed]

Great thread !

Maybe I just need to sleep but I actually don't get it.

What does "improved" mean ? Exactly ? i.e numerically.
Does it actually do something stats-wise ?

[Wizzie]

Apparently certain regions are marked for certain guilds. When I looked into the descr_regions.txt file of the No Brigands/No Pirates mod, I noticed that a few regions have guilds in them.

*snip*

This leads me to believe that only certain regions can get the explorers guild or a woodsmens guild, as noted by the absence of either in Venice...

Venice_Province
	Venice
	venice
	Italian_Rebels
	13 198 117
	textiles, no_pirates, no_brigands
	5
	9
	religions { catholic 95 orthodox 0 islam 0 pagan 3 heretic 2 }

*snip*

Hmmm:

[Kobal2fr]

I was about to reply that I often had it in Venice as well. So the guilds mentionned in desc_strat are either meaningless remnants of a former system, or maybe it means that the guilds mentionned have more chances to pop up there than average+building history ?