Heresy in settlements.. how?

**Werner** · 11-19-2006, 21:26

Currently I have priests in about every settlement I have but the heresy levels and other religious levels are going up. How do I stop this, short of more churches? Is there a way to "force" them out of my settlement and than use my priest to kill them? Because right now no matter how many priests I have in the settlement, heresy levels/Orthodox are at 40% and going up.

**Jagger** · 11-19-2006, 21:32

Originally Posted by Werner

Currently I have priests in about every settlement I have but the heresy levels and other religious levels are going up. How do I stop this, short of more churches? Is there a way to "force" them out of my settlement and than use my priest to kill them? Because right now no matter how many priests I have in the settlement, heresy levels/Orthodox are at 40% and going up.

I don't think your heresy or other religion levels should go up if you have priests/churches present in your provinces unless heretics/other religion priests are in your province. You can kill heretics with your priests. You can kill other priests with assassins.

Also I think cardinals are more powerful than priests in increasing your proper religion. So you may consider using cardinals as a fire brigade in any province you are having religion problems.

**Werner** · 11-19-2006, 22:27

Originally Posted by Jagger

I don't think your heresy or other religion levels should go up if you have priests/churches present in your provinces unless heretics/other religion priests are in your province. You can kill heretics with your priests.

Ok I guess my question is, how do I force the heretics out of my city? Or is there a button I can press to make my priest kill all the heretics inside the city or convert them, like when you click on a heretic walking around you get a percentage of likelihood to convict them. Occasionally I'll see heretics leaving my city, is this because they've been kicked out and are no longer in my city or does this happen when the heretic levels get really high and they just start spreading?

**Werner** · 11-19-2006, 23:17

Here is some visual evidence of whats going on in just one of my settlements. Unfortunately this is the one with my cardinal and he can't even make them disappear...