G'Kar
21.05.08, 19:04
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=357831
We have made several changes to how religion works in In Nomine, however the most important it how you tolerate religions. The old slider system is gone. No longer can you simply decree that one day Pagans are the enemy and next day they are to be tolerated completely. Instead you have three distinct types of religious toleration, the state religion, heretics (those in the same religious group but not of the state religion) and then everyone else. By default you love your state religion and burn everyone else, although you have slightly less intolerance of heretics. You cannot directly change tolerance; instead you use national ideas and decisions to alter it.
Missionaries have also undergone a change. Under the previous system missions were a one off cost, did nothing while they were busy and then had a simple hit or miss according at the end of their time. Now missionaries are much cheaper to send cost a yearly upkeep and will keep working until the province is converted. In addition people don’t like being told that they have to believe in something else the province automatically receives a higher revolt risk if you have an active missionary, and we have added some events for when you have active missionaries just to keep things interesting.
In essence missionaries could convert a province in a matter of months or they could take many years of game time to bring the one true faith to suffering people of the province. Also on paper you could have a missionary active for an entire game and never have any luck, so you must bear this in mind when you use missionaries. As we mentioned above the missionaries cost money each month. You have a slider than were you can change this monthly cost and how successful they will be, the more money the greater their chance of success. So the strategy works like this, the more missionaries you have, the more income you need to devote to keeping them working, the more provinces have a raised revolt risk, but it also means you will be more likely to get people praying the right way sooner. It is up to you to decide
We have also added some extra abilities for the papal controller. Firstly the papal controller can declare a crusade against any non-Christian country. Any Catholic country gets bonuses if they declare war on the crusade target.
Secondly the pope can be persuaded to excommunicate another Catholic ruler, this allows catholic countries to declare war without the usual religious penalties, and also makes life difficult for the ruler. Please remember that you are excommunicating the ruler not the country so if you excommunicate a country in a personal union it will excommunicate all countries in the union. In addition, that means if the ruler suddenly dies, your effort was in vain and you’ll have to try again. However you cannot excommunicate countries with good relations with the pope, and this also gives you a way to avoid excommunication. It is also worth remembering that as being excommunicated is not a very nice experience most countries will take a while to forgive you for it.
With this is in mind we have tweaked the rules for bribing cardinals. You now have a 3 month before that cardinal can be bribed again, this control of the curia may be difficult to get and harder to maintain.
One final note we have removed the stability penalties for declaring war against countries that are from a different religious group than you.
http://www.gamersgate.com/eu3/inn8.jpg
We have made several changes to how religion works in In Nomine, however the most important it how you tolerate religions. The old slider system is gone. No longer can you simply decree that one day Pagans are the enemy and next day they are to be tolerated completely. Instead you have three distinct types of religious toleration, the state religion, heretics (those in the same religious group but not of the state religion) and then everyone else. By default you love your state religion and burn everyone else, although you have slightly less intolerance of heretics. You cannot directly change tolerance; instead you use national ideas and decisions to alter it.
Missionaries have also undergone a change. Under the previous system missions were a one off cost, did nothing while they were busy and then had a simple hit or miss according at the end of their time. Now missionaries are much cheaper to send cost a yearly upkeep and will keep working until the province is converted. In addition people don’t like being told that they have to believe in something else the province automatically receives a higher revolt risk if you have an active missionary, and we have added some events for when you have active missionaries just to keep things interesting.
In essence missionaries could convert a province in a matter of months or they could take many years of game time to bring the one true faith to suffering people of the province. Also on paper you could have a missionary active for an entire game and never have any luck, so you must bear this in mind when you use missionaries. As we mentioned above the missionaries cost money each month. You have a slider than were you can change this monthly cost and how successful they will be, the more money the greater their chance of success. So the strategy works like this, the more missionaries you have, the more income you need to devote to keeping them working, the more provinces have a raised revolt risk, but it also means you will be more likely to get people praying the right way sooner. It is up to you to decide
We have also added some extra abilities for the papal controller. Firstly the papal controller can declare a crusade against any non-Christian country. Any Catholic country gets bonuses if they declare war on the crusade target.
Secondly the pope can be persuaded to excommunicate another Catholic ruler, this allows catholic countries to declare war without the usual religious penalties, and also makes life difficult for the ruler. Please remember that you are excommunicating the ruler not the country so if you excommunicate a country in a personal union it will excommunicate all countries in the union. In addition, that means if the ruler suddenly dies, your effort was in vain and you’ll have to try again. However you cannot excommunicate countries with good relations with the pope, and this also gives you a way to avoid excommunication. It is also worth remembering that as being excommunicated is not a very nice experience most countries will take a while to forgive you for it.
With this is in mind we have tweaked the rules for bribing cardinals. You now have a 3 month before that cardinal can be bribed again, this control of the curia may be difficult to get and harder to maintain.
One final note we have removed the stability penalties for declaring war against countries that are from a different religious group than you.
http://www.gamersgate.com/eu3/inn8.jpg