Quote Originally Posted by Brandy Blue
Is there not also a bonus of some sort for helping an ally by lifting a seige on your ally's castle?
Yep ,true enough I am sure that I have read something about that (though I don't know how big the gain is).

One last thing In remember is that the "wrap-around" bug has some impact in this field as well. Sent a successfyl crusades to Palestine, had and influence of nine before and of three after ... (after that things got real weird since my ruler's influence varied each turn without any apparent reason, on turn it was three, the next six and the next 4 etc until my king died of old age ...)