Is there a way to gain more influence points

[Lucid]

I gain so little by buildings assimulating a minor faction is an insane about (30) and doing the city plan is insane (20). I gain like +1/2 or 3 a turn. It doesn't happen fast enough. What am I doing wrong, great ones?

[Kardwill]

I found the building produced adequate amounts of influence, but if you need more in a hurry, you can put workers on influence duty?

[Ginga121]

I'm quite new to the game so don't take my word as gospel but I think it depends on what clan/race, etc you are playing as. Some get it faster than others. Districts also seem to help generate more if they are connected to the city centre.

I have found that putting workers into the influence area of your city if you have spare workers helps. Once you get to era 2 or 3 of the tech tree you start to see a few things you can research that will boost the amount of influence you get.

As the Drakken I was getting between 3-7 per turn until I hit the late era 2/early era 3 of research when it jumped to about 30 per turn through building extra things.

I'm sure someone with more experience will be able to shed more light on this for you.

[Lucid]

Well I was on era one. I have to assiumlate a minor faction which takes (30) for the main quest and ontop there's city planning. I'm new as well. I didn't know you could assign workers to influence I have to check that. :/

[Crai-Crai]

In the south quartile of your technology circles, you'll find some buildings you can unlock that will give you extra influence per turn. I can't remember their names right now. Look for the purple stars. Putting those buildings in will help.

For immediate effect, you can move workers off industry and food into the influence production, although I like to do very little of this, since it only yields 2-per turn compared to the others. In the late game, there is a tech that will boost that up by 4 per turn, but that's a ways off.

You can get a Drakken hero in the marketplace that has a skill half-way up the right side of his skill tree that boosts influence output by about 2 per district tile.

And finally, the buff from Dye is +50%, although I usually prefer to extract it rather than buy it. In an emergency, you can probably buy a bunch in the marketplace.

Good luck!

[Lucid]

Also after you read about a minor faction and pres dimiss. How do you learn more about the minor faction in detail with units etc. I can't find that screen. All it shows me is a city and that info...

[Crai-Crai]

You would have to go into your empire management screen and start the process for assimilating them (but without hitting the assimilate button). It will give you options and show the details of the faction in that screen. Not a great way to do it but I don't know other options.

[Lucid]

Originally posted by craig:

You would have to go into your empire management screen and start the process for assimilating them (but without hitting the assimilate button). It will give you options and show the details of the faction in that screen. Not a great way to do it but I don't know other options.

I hover over them and it doesn't show the same level of detail. If there's no other way that's a UI flaw...

[Crai-Crai]

You actually have to hit the faction button on the left side as if you're assimilating them, and then you'll see their info come up in the bottom right. Just don't hit the "Assimilate (100 *)" link or else it's final. You can always save your game just before you try it in case you make a mistake.

[BEEN]

Don't use all your influence when you select an empire plan. Unless you absolutely have to.

[Lucid]

Originally posted by scorekeeper:

Don't use all your influence when you select an empire plan. Unless you absolutely have to.

Do you miss out if you do?

[Lucid]

Originally posted by craig:

You actually have to hit the faction button on the left side as if you're assimilating them, and then you'll see their info come up in the bottom right. Just don't hit the "Assimilate (100 *)" link or else it's final. You can always save your game just before you try it in case you make a mistake.

Also can you not assimulate more than one minor faction?

And how do you add more heroes (not counting mercs).

[Crai-Crai]

You can assimilate more factions by researching more technology. Each slot requires a technology.

Heroes can be purchased in the Marketplace, and you assign them from your Academy.

I would suggest just playing the game for a while and you'll figure a lot of this out as you go.

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Originally posted by Zenman12:

Also can you not assimulate more than one minor faction?

You can assimilate up to 3. But extra slots require additional research. My personal favorites are the silics for the +0.5 additional strategic resource per village per region, Eyeless ones for the in battle healing (if you're not playing Broken Lords with Dust Bishops) and then either the Delvers for the gold boost or the Eyrics for the movement bonus. Getting 18 movement points on armies end game is absurd. I also like the Haunts if you have to deal with alot of necrophage as they are immune to disease, the research boost is just a bonus. But it kind of depends on how many villages you can pacify and how many the map generates. Some of the "weaker" minor factions become huge boosts if you have 6+ villages.

There's an Orc faction that gives like +5% boost to damage...and when you got 6 of them that's a solid +30% damage boost. That's basically equiping every unit you have with the tier 3 titanium damage accessory...for free.

And how do you add more heroes (not counting mercs).

Find them or buy them. Only options you got. A broken lord hero can be found in the winter on the right ruin with 3 redsong. Wild Walkers gives you a hero as part of a quest.

Also after you read about a minor faction and pres dimiss. How do you learn more about the minor faction in detail with units etc. I can't find that screen. All it shows me is a city and that info...

There isn't. The best way is either checking them out in the merc section of the market or reading a wiki.