How to "Apply yo the imperial level"?

[Darth Jimmi]

Hi!
So i'm a baron, i have a country estate, a mansion and i'm the sovereign of my current city.
I just unlocked the "can apply to imperial level" perk..
But how do i do that exactly? I've never made it this far and i have no idea what to do to progress to said imperial level.
Thanks!

[Taoist Ascendant]

im pretty sure sovereign is imperial level but im not sure

[Taoist Ascendant]

Originally posted by Silentstorm:

I think you quite literally just apply past the lower rank of politics

He said he is sovereign atm

[Darth Jimmi]

I think i figured it out after some quick research!
You need to upgrade the city to an imperial city. It just happens the city i live in is almost there :) Just need a few more thousand tallers in the city coffers and i can finnaly become king or whatever..

One question though, does that make my family the only ones that can be king/queen? Or could i get voted out? (not likely to happen anyway, as long as my mass-producing cake bakery dosnt get burned or something..)

[Taoist Ascendant]

Originally posted by CFSC Melkor of the Ainur:

I think i figured it out after some quick research!
You need to upgrade the city to an imperial city. It just happens the city i live in is almost there :) Just need a few more thousand tallers in the city coffers and i can finnaly become king or whatever..

One question though, does that make my family the only ones that can be king/queen? Or could i get voted out? (not likely to happen anyway, as long as my mass-producing cake bakery dosnt get burned or something..)

yes only your family

[Conte]

Never managed to get so high! Is that easy enough with a Patron?

[Taoist Ascendant]

Originally posted by Conte:

Never managed to get so high! Is that easy enough with a Patron?

yes patron is definitly one of the easiest role But i never got the hang of it

[Darth Jimmi]

Originally posted by Conte:

Never managed to get so high! Is that easy enough with a Patron?

I've been playing the game one and off for a couple of years now, i think i'm confident enough to see that i'm quite experienced and even good with it now. :)
It's the kind of game you have to play alot, get use to the quirks and little details and you're gonna be running the place in no time.

Really, getting to be mayor or sovereign or whatever isnt that hard. I use cakes by the tons to bribe my/my family's way up the ladder and profit from occasions.
Like in my case it was a single family running the three highest offices, so i couldnt get any farther up in the pyramid. I hired an assassin to kill the youngest member who held the office just above mine and since there was nobody else to claim it after that, i got in even if that family hated me. I bribed them with like 15 or so cakes (maybe less lol) so we could be allies again and its like i never killed their daughter lol. Eventually they died of old age and my family was suddenly in control of the town....

That's just an exemple. I worked my arse off to get the lowest office possible and it was really hard to climb the political ladder. But i did it.
If someone like me can to that, then so can you!

[MichaelEUkari]

I'm fairly new to the game, but I've just created my first successful empire, profiting over 100k per day from a craftsman start. BEST Tip I've got for climbing the political ladder is to make sure that money is no issue at all, then you bribe and slaughter your way to political immunity and control before people throw you in jail. You can control the court systems in the game, I found this really useful for dealing with 'cleaning house' and council spots as the judge, then just kill the king and the other opposed, apply for monarch,

[BoomItsGeorgio]

Climbing the polical ladder is super easy if you know what you are doing, just takes a few years. I found the easiest was to play a scholar and max out your rhetoric because its cheap as a scholar, and just talk and beguile everyone ahead of you.Or play a rogue, and kill them all.

Or if you want to be super political play a charisma build rogue, and tell fortunes. Construct a thief workshop, and goad and bonus your thief workshop twice a day because it never closes, in 10 ish turns you will have enough xp to do just about anything including beguile/ talk to anyone into liking you because your charisma, rhetoric, and constitution will be maxed. Your title has a pretty big impact in how effective your talking/ beguiling is though, so get to nobleman when you can. But rule number one for climbing the political ladder as a rogue is dont waylay or toll. you will make fast enemies