Clemency
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I would caution everyone from following old advice about raising faction power for factions you own to gain scaling passive money income since Grim is reworking almost every faction. Next on the chopping block is Aesir and if you notice the changelogs, it says: "When loading version 0849 on an existing save, the entire Aesir Faction is automatically reset. All Standing, Power Values and Manpower changes gained through donations or political events will be wiped."
Workshop Manufacturing still remains highly profitable, so your workshop is still great even if you do not spend swords on the Aesirs. Or, rather, you do not pass certain repeatable votes in the Senate that increases Aesir and Bandit power value by a massively efficient ~140 power per successful voting session.
I already have the annex on the northeast, a gazebo to the east, a dojo to the southeast, a stable to the southwest, and a workshop and a tavern outside my house. I have all the unique structures I need.
For women, if you can successfully get them to have sex with you, orgasms are a quick way of raising affection up to Loving. It's capped there for vanilla sex. Bondage sex has no cap, so you can use that later on.
As always, Arrange Events (can be done once per day between 4pm to 8pm) can raise Affection for groups. The maids do not gain affection though, but as long as it's not an overcrowded event, everyone can. Since I do not add multiple NPCs at once, I can just freely choose to have dinner with Followers and raise their affection before having new NPCs in my house.
Donating food to the Orphanage while having them as your followers should still be working.
Honestly, once I get their Affection to Undying I no longer need to micromanage them. Their affection typically do not decrease unless there is an active factor like their rations do not match their body type.
Workshop Manufacturing still remains highly profitable, so your workshop is still great even if you do not spend swords on the Aesirs. Or, rather, you do not pass certain repeatable votes in the Senate that increases Aesir and Bandit power value by a massively efficient ~140 power per successful voting session.
I just keep it. There's nothing else to build there that is worthwhile for me to destroy a structure I cannot build.
I already have the annex on the northeast, a gazebo to the east, a dojo to the southeast, a stable to the southwest, and a workshop and a tavern outside my house. I have all the unique structures I need.
Power can be reached by giving them swords. Men can be reached by keeping their money above $300,000 to trigger a conclude day event.
I think Expert Classes are too points inefficient for anyone not doing a roleplay build. Especially since their capstone effects are not really that attractive. Even the much vaunted Expert Businessman is still meh to me because at that point in the game where it becomes truly relevant, money is not an issue. If you roleplay, have at it. Roleplay builds are fun.
The simplest way is to just give them salary/allowance until they hit the affection threshold you want, before removing the salary.
For women, if you can successfully get them to have sex with you, orgasms are a quick way of raising affection up to Loving. It's capped there for vanilla sex. Bondage sex has no cap, so you can use that later on.
As always, Arrange Events (can be done once per day between 4pm to 8pm) can raise Affection for groups. The maids do not gain affection though, but as long as it's not an overcrowded event, everyone can. Since I do not add multiple NPCs at once, I can just freely choose to have dinner with Followers and raise their affection before having new NPCs in my house.
There are very few hands off way to raise Affection. Letting them use Floor Crawlers can raise Affection. Putting them in the same room as a girl and then turning on the relationship option in that specific room's setting should work if the girl accepts their advances.
Donating food to the Orphanage while having them as your followers should still be working.
Honestly, once I get their Affection to Undying I no longer need to micromanage them. Their affection typically do not decrease unless there is an active factor like their rations do not match their body type.
Having Ayden Rhoades in your party and intimidating the Preacher should still work for the intimidation check. Save and then try it if you'd like.
