Papal Influence

[oilers41]

First of all, does anyone understand how this works?

Second, is it actually working correctly? I just ran through a Venice game and I had an event pop up with one of the options giving 5 papal influence. My current value was something like 52, and after clicking on the option, my papal influence was still at the same number. Is there a cap to the amount of influence I can have? I was playing as Portugal yesterday and I tried to play around with the cardinal influence but I was never able to get more than mid 50s and was never able to afford to invest in a cardinal meanwhile other countries were dishing out well above that.

 

[beckermt]

You buy control of a cardinal that is not yet in the Curia by paying a minimum of 10 more than the previous person paid. Cardinals enter the curia from oldest to youngest, but could die before entering the curia. I don't know if the next purchase of a cardinal that someone else has invested in, take into account your previous investments.

As for your influence not changing, that would be a bug.

 

[Trioxis]

I encountered the same issue. I have had multiple events giving me quite a lot of papal influence, I believe +50 influence by accepting the Holy Inquisition as Portugal and +5 when converting a province or so, but it never gets added to what I already have. At most it seems to be fluctuating between the high 40's - low/mid 50's, never more than that.

 

[barretta]

In my game that Inquisition event fired for portugal but no change in influence for me too. Will watch for conversion.

 

[oilers41]

At most it seems to be fluctuating between the high 40's - low/mid 50's, never more than that.

That seems to b the same range that I am getting as well. I will have to keep a closer eye on it, but I am thinking that this may be a bug

 

[Zarine]

There is a limit to 5 or 10 years of influence that you can't go over. This is why you didn't see your influence increasing.

 

[oilers41]

Ahhh, well that would probably be the problem

 

[barretta]

That sort of limits who can control curia. When 100+ influence is required for every cardinal after 1500.

 

[coldsteel]

I was Papal controller and had excellent relations with the Pope as Portugal. Had several events to increase Papal Influence. I still wasn't able to influence a cardinal.

 

[Assalander]

The cap wouldn't be too bad if you could get a popup when a cardinal dies and a new one is available for bribe, so that you could begin to invest on him before the AI raises the cost to something you will never be able to afford...

 

[Decimal]

I think this mechanic is broken in the demo.

 

[Viperswhip]

The cap wouldn't be too bad if you could get a popup when a cardinal dies and a new one is available for bribe, so that you could begin to invest on him before the AI raises the cost to something you will never be able to afford...

I've never understood it, even in EU3 since we could outright gamble on the Cards, but in DW, I just don't get it, I have way more Catholic provinces than anyone else but 1 Cardinal seemingly at most. So, when the reformation comes, I embrace it, every single time lol