Yrg mounts and imperial criminal

[AM]

Found out that the two don't mix. I have about 90 mounts for my crew, but after running afoul of the money grabbing imperials (I get a -9 each time i kill them now) I was totally locked out of the cities.

Cue a lot of roaming - and realising a major consequence is - I had no where i could buy new mounts!!

In the end i went to the mines and bribed the dude - TWICE - to lower ciminality enough to get back into a city.

So-
couple of q's
Is there a way to see your criminality status amount?
Is there an alternative to get the mounts?

I may just have to swap to horses, and take a squad of 25 scouts with me to get food whereever we go.

[AM]

Ok - i quickly tried it swapping out to see how it goes. No, just no. The food consumption for a large number of mounts is crazy in comparison.

Q's still stand though.

[sanahtlig]

For most of my game I used horses and a large complement of scouts. It was self-sustaining in most areas. Though I can't imagine a playstyle that doesn't let you enter cities is ever going to be optimal.

Long-term, your best strategy is to get a trade or religious faction to rank 5 so you can waive the taxes. Alternatively, you can avoid roads--a self-sustaining caravan allows you to do that.

[AM]

I have multiple at 4 and can waive most taxes, but recently they have been charging me 100/150 bross for road tax - whereas i used to be able to get let off with my permit. not sure why - maybe cause my seregod rank is so low, or do i now need a rank 5?

I stuck with the yrgs - 100 strong in the caravan and the overall food consumption is around 200 - with scouts and avoiding roads its sustaining, plus avoiding killing tax collectors.

[sanahtlig]

The road taxes scale with wealth: coins, cargo value, and miscellaneous item value. The higher the tax, the higher the faction standing you need to waive it. At the highest levels only Rank 5 suffices. Getting a trade or religious faction to rank 5 should be a high priority for any player trying to amass wealth.

I found that Church of Ahksul is a very easy faction to raise if you're anti-Abolitionist. You can raise their reputation very quickly by handing in spectral dust farmed from Temple of Sleepers, and they don't have competition with other factions (besides Abolitionist) that will lower it (though freeing large numbers of slaves will dramatically lower rep with both religious factions). Sergorod is ok but it doesn't have good farmable items and it conflicts with both underworld factions, at least one of which you'll need high standing with if you want to finish Harvek's questline.