Colony ships can be built at any Starbase with a Shipyard module. To colonize a planet, an empire needs first to own the system via a Starbase and to send a colony ship to the planet. Once docking you will receive all the gold you raided and an equal amount of prestige. Industrial Development Resolution gives -2,5, -5, -10, -20 and -25 at Levels 1 through 5. To add this raided gold to your treasury you must dock the ship at one of your provinces.

The raiders will keep the gold and when they re-board their raiding ship they will 'store' gold on the ship. When looting is carried out from a boat and the raiders are offloaded to a province that you do not border any held territories you will not immediately gain the gold. When declaring war against a country, raiders will continue to raid and all sieges performed by them will not contribute to warscore. If a holding is sacked by siege or assault the province will be immune to raids for a short period of time. If the holding is successfully sieged or assaulted all the gold from that holding will be taken. The amount of gold a conquering army receives after the siege is displayed on the siege results screen.įortification and defense buildings in the holding decrease amount of gold given to raiders that has not yet successfully sieged the holding. King John II sought to establish two routes: the first, a land and sea. This can be seen by the yellow bar on the holding tab. and better ship design and was eager to test them he was also a Crusader and. The amount varies depending on the wealth of the province. This will mean that they can, and often will attack you while you are raiding.Įach province has an amount of gold that potentially can be looted by raiders.

Raiding will make your army hostile to any troops of the country you are raiding. In the early starts, Germanic pagans are the most common raiders, as rulers of that religion are the only rulers with shipbuilders. Looting can only be carried out by members that have any of the following:Ī culture that allows raiding, for example, Norse or Norman.Ī government that allows raiding, primarily tribalism.Ī religion that allows raiding, this is mostly the pagan religions. Since the release of Old Gods DLC, and 1.10 patch, looting is a mechanic.

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