Piety for Generals - How to improve?

**Kobal2fr** · 12-01-2006, 12:43

Oh most definitely. Even generals with only battle traits will boost city income when they have high piety. Of course, taxman/trader/intelligent traits go even further, but I'm quite confident piety has an effect as well.

I'll admit, I haven't watched closely enough to tell you how/why, or if it only cuts down on corruption and so on, though. No hard testing on my part, just repeated empirical results to "tests" as highly scientific as "Hmmm, what if I put that guy there ? Income up ? You, stay there. Read a book or something. But no mistresses !"

Which is why I'm a bit miffed that mere hyperactive spying will turn your king into a cruel madman stringing peasants up for kicks and giggles... Can't you stomp on people's privacy in a proper, caring judeo-christian way, dammit ?!

**Kraxis** · 12-01-2006, 14:25

Well, shouldn't he be able to do that if you only have spies trained in a few cities? Wouldn't he just gain the trait and retinue and then that would be it. Actually, to me it sounds pretty nifty.

Btw, I got the Conforming trait when my crusading prince got tried by an inquisitor.

**Kobal2fr** · 12-01-2006, 14:35

I don't know, 8 spies (for 5 provinces total) turned my Moorish king into Adolf Tepès somehow, when I had plans to turn him into Muslimdom's Galahad. Going for Chivalry and the Piety coming with it doesn't have much point now that he's sporting like +8 dread already... without ever budging from his court in Cordoba. What can I say, I like my cities saboteur-proof.

But bah, that's veering towards hijack.

**WineCape** · 12-01-2006, 15:01

Sir Bullethead,

Are you the same gentleman that that visits the www.Battlefront.com forums?

Cause you DO sound as entertaining as him ;)

Sincerely,
WineCape