Ok, Thanks!!!

Does proximity raise loyalty or just reduce the chance of rebellion? I have been getting some 4 acumen generals but with only one loyalty. If I give them a title, it can bump their loyalty up to two. I would like to use these generals as governors, but I dont know how much I can depend on them even if my King is 1 province away. I am also unfamiliar with how to raise my kings influence?

I have tried using spies to give a trial to my low loyalty generals for treason. This is actually an easy way to increase spy valor early in the game. If the trial is successful, the low loyalty general will be executed and replaced with a random general, and the spy gains valor.

I think the quality of generals that are recruited in terms of loyalty and acumen in a game is random too. I have had some very successful early games and other early games where my generals were all poor quality. I am unsure if certain buildings can give any bonuses to the acumen and loyalty of the generals I recruit?

As far as trait building goes, In one of my better early games I was able to keep my governors vice free by leaving them out of stacks and at the same time build up their traits for the buildings I constructed. It was also interesting to notice that if you leave governors out of stacks they still can get good traits and good trait improvements. I haven't noticed any bad traits appearing in out of stack governors, but it was still early game. The kings traits must be global because for some reason I was able to build up my governors traits on the same province the king was in.

I'll keep trying to build up my governors and generals traits and reply to this thread on how it is going. Right now I am looking for good loyalty generals with at least 4 acumen to govern. My success at recruiting generals like this varies from between 1 in 10 to 1 in 20. It can be quite frustrating to go 10 to 20 turns in game, recruiting generals in each province, every turn, and still not have many qualified candidates. I am playing a country with a good economy and safe start position. I imagine it is very difficult to try to develop governors with some factions, although it does pay off if you are using the default settings, where generals are replaced by someone with the same traits and stats when they die. What strategies do you use for assigning and training governors?