(Archived) Authority

Authority
Authority is a system of a faction on how much control the Crown has over their faction, the more decentralized the faction is the easier it is to become Ruler of it, but the debuffs are on how much Political Power you produce or if you can go to war at all.

You can raise it through forcefully oppressing your citizens by going basically to war with yourself, or spend Political Power to increase it peacefully

Authority Lvl. 1 | Decentralized
Your faction is completely Tribal, with no leadership. any commoner can come up and try become the ruler. It will cost 750 alignment with the faction to become the ruler + any other requirement, it will take a lot of work to centralize the faction.

You are unable to declare war, and you only produce 30% of the political power. BUT you are allowed to use the "Forceful Centralization" Casus Belli to try rapidly increase your Authority. You are unable to make or join federations but are still able to be vassalized.

You can only maintain 2 Alliances.

To rise from this to Lvl. 2 you will require 100 Political Power

Authority Lvl. 2 | Minor Centralization
You control your land, and your subjects obey your throne. If this faction is with no ruler you can take the throne with 1250 alignment + the other requirements to become a ruler.

You are able to go to war, but you cannot hold other factions as vassals. You can also now join Coalitions or create Empires. You are able to use "Forceful Centralization" Casus Belli to increase Authority. You produce 50% of the Political Power, You cannot Exploit other factions Resources through trade pacts.

You can only maintain 3 Alliances

To rise from this to Lvl. 3 you will require 200 Political Power

Authority Lvl. 3 | Feudal
Your vassals and subjects are forced to obey the throne, those who do not are seen as traitors. It will require 2000 Alignment to become ruler of this faction + other requirements.

You are now able to hold Factions as Vassals and join Coalitions. The faction ruler produces 75% of the Normal Political Power, You are able to exploit other factions resources through Trade Pacts.a

You can maintain as many alliances as you wish.

To rise from this to Lvl. 4, you will require 400 Political Power

Authority Lvl. 4 | Imperial
Your faction all submits to your full authority. You need 2500 Alignment to become faction leader + other requirements to become a ruler.

You produce 100% of the normal Political Power from cities,

To rise from this to Despot you need to have 500 Political Power

Despotism
ALL SHALL SUBMIT TO THE SUPREME LEADER.

Civil revolts cost 100% more for the rebels to begin, and they are 50% weaker when they start.

If Sauron becomes faction leader of Mordor, then Mordor automatically becomes Despotic.

if a Maia or Nazgul becomes Faction leader the faction Automatically becomes Feudal, but its only at the start and you can easily be lowered.