How do I improve diplomacy?

[amills1]

I'm currently in chapter 5 and the diplomacy rank is still only level 2. I've only seem the diplomatic envoy once when I decided to ignore her request to have a parade for the queen.

[Hailspork]

According to Neoseekers[www.neoseeker.com], Diplomacy XP is gained by "acquiring resources". If you have the XP, but not the level, then you just need to do the appropriate rank-up decree, kingdom management event, repeat.

[Drake]

You can get a lot of diplomacy xp by doing the relic projects (stage 1 and 3 reward diplomacy, stage 2 rewards leadership).

[baeus6]

It's basically just do the diplomacy edicts, including the relic ones.

[The Cystocot]

As others have stated, hit every demon fort on the map, get the relics, upgrade them. For every relic, you have 4 tasks; an initial task to prep it, a task to chose what to make from it, a task to enchant it, followed by the final choice of what form the enchantment takes.

Diplomacy is almost too easy to max out, and ignoring the parade thing only really means losing out on a repeatable decree for +10% finance points for 2 weeks...which is basically nothing if you're filling your forts properly(build Inns first, then recruitment buildings-possibly a bug, as they're meant to be mutually exclusive, but it still hasn't been fixed, even after all the crusade overhauls, so...use it for now, adapt later if it gets changed)

Though, do make sure to support the Royal Council when given the choice, there's an amazing skill booster item in it for you.