Agency - Sect Appeal

[mcdrane]

Does anyone know how to increase sect appeal? I only have the charity policy option but my followers are still steadily declining... already had two disaster in Mt. South and of my former 16k believers only 8k remain, still declining. I Just don't wanna lose out on all those delicious exp points.

[Halfshell]

If you use no policy they decline at a rate of 5% per day. For charity just have them make farms and supply their own wheat. Can also grab the riverside plains for 4 farming plots. Anyway, disasters are from my experience the easiest way to gain followers just set it to disaster relief, I think watching the event helps and send someone to help out (only works once).

[mcdrane]

thx for the reply, but u misunderstood. I diid build the farms, i did do diaster relief (wasnt enough because i could only provide 20 brownstone a day and both times it was not enough, nearly 20k people left Mt. South every time) and i have the charity option selected with all my three agencies - still steadily declining or stagnating followers in all agencies.

[Halfshell]

Hmm, not sure why it would decline still unless bugged. If its bugged maybe swapping policies and back to charity could help. Or maybe there are other factors? Could maybe be a later thing with the political buildings in cities? Such as you get events that can undermine other agencies they might be able to do the same. So is it a daily decline or just an every now and then its lower?

For disaster as I said, watching the event helps (more events, think doubling costs means they get more stone/ food) and send someone for relief once. Doing that I haven't failed since.

[mcdrane]

thx for the tips, will try. and yeah, i really get the feeling there's sum bug there. already tried reactivating and changing policies, but still noticable increase in followers and i'm at day 160 now.

[LaGru]

If your Agency has a policy set but your followers are still declining, the problem isn't your Appeal, it's your Stability.

Stability is a stat you can see under the Belief tab, and if that's low then it's going to keep getting lower every day. You can prevent this by sending Agents/Abbots with a high Battle skill.

If you look under the Agent tab you'll see the different stats of your Agency. You want Battle to be 15 to avoid stability loss in the future, and policy events can increase your stability stat by a fixed amount. Having 15 battle will get you the most possible benefit from these events, so it's not worth wasting the resources to get that number higher.