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Helpline / Re: Various beginner questions about Religion and Lordship

« on: July 12, 2017, 12:05:30 PM »

For the taxes, I suspect that you only considered your estate's income, and failed to consider the tax you levy on your knights' estates' income. Just a guess, though.

No, I did take into consideration the taxes I get from my own estate as well as the taxes I get through my (not yet existing) knights. I'm pretty sure that the 'problem' I'm facing has to do with two of three estates in my region being empty. To throw around some numbers (none of them are exact as I toyed around with the tax setting since this happened, but they aren't far off either):

Under the estates page, I see that I can expect to levy around 25 gold. Being the ruler of the region, all of that gold belongs to me. The other two estates in my region - both being empty - each expect a tax income of ~15 gold, from which I as the lord get half (Lord's Share of 50%). That would leave me with ca. 40 gold (40 + 7,5 + 7,5).

Now, when tax day comes, I'm told through the tax report that I managed to collect 54 gold in taxes on my own estate alone. Added to that are the taxes from the empty estates, both collecting 13 gold. All of that gold goes into my coffers and leaves me with a total of around 80 gold instead of the expected 40. That's quite a difference. Now I do understand that the numbers on my estate/region page are not final - it even says so - but getting roughly double the amoung I was expecting is indeed a bit... fortunate.

Have you tried asking these questions in character?
Its a great opportunity to forge bonds to help and get helped by other characters.

I did think about that in regards to my question about religions, but unfortunately I didn't find the time to visit a temple or otherwise contact religious authorities.

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Helpline / Re: Various beginner questions about Religion and Lordship

« on: July 11, 2017, 11:39:39 PM »

Thanks for the quick answers! They pretty much answered all my questions already.

I understand that religion is largely a role-playing tool to establish my character and I think it's a very interesting way to do so. I was just wondering if there are any game mechanics attached to it that I don't know about. It's a pity to hear that I can't (at least not yet) 'repair' the temple in my holding. Seeing that it is the temple of a majority religion in my region, I don't really want to close it down.

Regarding the production and loyalty values of my region, I guess anarchists are to blame. My region is infact quite far from my kingdom's capital city. Obviously I could never hope or even expect those values to be on 100% all the time, I'm a bit of a perfections and would like to try and keep it as high as possible.

That said, I'll make sure to take a screenshot of what I meant exactly and send it to you, Wimpie. I'm pretty sure that it's not a bug, but I guess it won't hurt to regard it as such until further confirmation.

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Helpline / Various beginner questions about Religion and Lordship

« on: July 11, 2017, 10:15:47 PM »

Hey people,

I'm still rather new to this game – having signed up only a few weeks ago – and I have a few questions about it. They mostly revolve around two topics: religion and Lordship. Let's start with religion.

First I'd like to know more about choosing a religion for my character. Most info about religion on the official wiki is about how to play a priest, but I want to know what choosing a religion entails for me as a normal, non-clerical noble. For example, once I choose a religion, can I switch it again or am I stuck? Do I have any obligations towards my chosen faith, be they financial or not?

My second question is about temples. I've been recently assigned as Lord and I have a ruined temple in my region. Can I as ruling lord do something about it? I do have an option to close it, but I seemingly can't rebuild it.

Regarding my Lordship, I'd like to know if it is normal that production, morale and realm loyalty slowly fall on their own or if this is because of various other factors (like me being a pagan or my region being plagued by anarchists). I know that I can up those values by doing civil work or holding court, but it looks like I'd need to spend most of my time in my region should I want to keep its production high. Is that so?

My last question is about taxes. Strangely, I've gotten quite a lot more taxes than I should according to my estates/region page. It's actually quite a substantial amount of money that I unexpectedly got (roughly 50% more than I expected). Is that a bug or is the 'Estates' page of my region only displaying a rough estimate?