How to raise Populist Faction Support

[klirko]

Trying to become a dictatorship, but I need 80% support for Populist faction. It says i get 4.55 each month, but it has went from 57 to 63 in 5 years

[Cheese]

Did you increase their seats from the government tab? Costs around 5 tyranny and I think 25 base oratory power.

[Iskander]

I believe having a corrupt Consul/leader also helps.
And having the censor be of the populist faction

[klirko]

Originally posted by Iskander:

I believe having a corrupt Consul/leader also helps.
And having the censor be of the populist faction

Yes it does, it is susposed to raise it by 2 a month. But even tho it is at plus 4.55 a month, it is only at 60

[klirko]

Originally posted by Doomcheese:

Did you increase their seats from the government tab? Costs around 5 tyranny and I think 25 base oratory power.

You can only do that when they are under 50

[Myrmidon]

Alright, so I did this for my first playthrough... To raise the populists to 80 you need to make sure they have less opponents in the senate, meaning you need to start arresting other faction senators. This will increase the populist support because, well, they don't have any opponents.

Be warned though, I had to quit my playthrough because doing this skyrockets your Tyranny to well over 70 which can make your life a lot harder!

[[BLK] Telu]

Put the populist faction on every important job of the gouvernment and research. You need to look at the family and see which guy are from populist faction. Then, you will have more siege.

[klirko]

Originally posted by Bitter End:

Alright, so I did this for my first playthrough... To raise the populists to 80 you need to make sure they have less opponents in the senate, meaning you need to start arresting other faction senators. This will increase the populist support because, well, they don't have any opponents.

Be warned though, I had to quit my playthrough because doing this skyrockets your Tyranny to well over 70 which can make your life a lot harder!

THat decreases stability and your popularity, making it impossible to do

[Myrmidon]

Originally posted by Prussia:

Originally posted by Bitter End:

Alright, so I did this for my first playthrough... To raise the populists to 80 you need to make sure they have less opponents in the senate, meaning you need to start arresting other faction senators. This will increase the populist support because, well, they don't have any opponents.

Be warned though, I had to quit my playthrough because doing this skyrockets your Tyranny to well over 70 which can make your life a lot harder!

THat decreases stability and your popularity, making it impossible to do

Yes, but that is only the first step. After doing that your going to have a bunch of people in prison, you can then send them into gladitorial games against each other to increase your popularity. For stability your just going to have to use power to boost it up.

If your trying to make Rome a dictatorship then your going to need to prepare for it. Do all this while the game is paused so that you don't suffer from any unrest that is going to happen.

Edit: Grammar

[Straybow]

I was stuck on 79 for a while before eventually getting it.
In the end I simply tried everything available to me involving smearing reputations, high popularity, every populist had a job, the law that increased populist support, making sure the other political leaders weren't charismatic.

I still want to be a Rex though and not a dictator, one day...