Nobles
Nobles are high-ranking citizens that oversee certain aspects of resource production, services, or military role, providing a flat bonus to the industry's performance or to military effectiveness. There are seventeen types of nobles that can be appointed:
- Master of Farms (improves all farm outputs 10%)
- Narcocrat (improves opiate farms 25% and slave submission 50%)
- Master of The Feast (improves breweries, bakeries, and rationmakers 25%)
- Master of Textiles (improves cotton farms production 25% and weavers 10%)
- Master of Industry (improves all crafting buildings by 10%
- Master of Refinery (improves all refining buildings by 10%)
- Master of The Forge (improves metal smelters and smithies 15%)
- Master of Fashions (improves jewellers 15% and clothiers 20%)
- University Headmaster (improves laboratory and library production 10% and papermaker production 25%)
- Slavemaster (improves slave submission 15%)
- Master Builder (improves carpenter production, and carry capacity and maintenance by 25%)
- Master of the Mines (improves all mine outputs 15%)
- Master Treasurer (improves sithilon and gem mine production 25%)
- Master Stonemason (improves masonry and stone mine production 25%)
- Master of Livestock (improves all pasture production by 20%)
- Master of The Hunt (improves hunter production by 50%)
- Master Baiter (improves fishery production by 25%)
It is advised to select an occupation that suits the individual's racial interests. For example, Cretonians prefer farming to industrial work, so making one a Master of Farms would be a good idea.
Any citizen can be made a noble, by clicking on them and choosing which noble title they'll have. Note the maximum limit of how many nobles the player can have is based on the settlement's level, which is determined by population:
- Sheriff - 1
- Major - 2
- Chieftain - 3
- Lord - 5
- King - 8
- High King - 12
- Emperor - 20
This means that throughout most of the game you will not be able to maintain all noble bonuses at once, so choose wisely! Furthermore, at the maximum level twenty nobles can be chosen, although there are only seventeen to choose from.
Nobles will need time to adjust to their new line of work. As such they will not immediately give their bonuses. Over time they will increase their skill, granting an increasing portion of their bonus until they provide all of it. Their current level of skill can be seen by hovering over the noble in the nobility screen.
Nobles will only accept residing inside of chambers for their housing, and would rather be homeless than reside in peasant dwellings (or homes). As of version 0.62.28 there is no real penalty for having homeless nobles.
Trivia
- There used to be three other noble types that were removed, including Master of Battle, Master of Pain, and Master of War.