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Introducing CK3 #07 - Money. Havoc teaches you how to get more money in CK3!

There are three important resources which are necessary for most actions in the game: Prestige, Piety and Gold. Each resource can be spent on different things and all of them can be spent or gained through events.

Prestige

Prestige represents a character's social standing. It is gained primarily by holding titles. Prestige can be spent on vassal interactions, decisions and declarations of war.

Level of fame

A character's level of fame measures their general reputation and how well perceived they are by everyone. Each time a character gains prestige, it will increase progress towards their next level of fame, which grants various benefits. Prestige lost from doing dishonorable actions will lower a character's level of fame. A character can pay a prestige cost with fame if it doesn't have enough prestige.

Level of fame	Secular opinion	Knights	Tribal Vassal Tax	Tribal Vassal Levies	Max conquest objective rank	Adopt Feudal / Clan Ways	Custom Kingdoms	Custom Empires	Required prestige
Disgraced	-10	-1	0%	0%	None				0
Established	0	0	10%	20%	County				1000
Distinguished	+3	+1	20%	40%	County				2000
Illustrious	+5	+2	30%	60%	Duchy				4000
Exalted Among Men	+10	+3	40%	80%	Kingdom				8000
The Living Legend	+20	+4	50%	100%	Kingdom				16000

Piety

Piety is a measure of how virtuous a character is in the eye of others and is gained primarily from religious relations and the character's Learning skill. Traits a character's religion considers virtues grant +1 piety/month, while sins cost -1 piety/month; great virtues and great sins have these effects doubled. Piety is spent when interacting with the church and declaring holy wars. The icon displayed for representing piety depends on the character's religion.

Sources of monthly piety include:

Source	Monthly piety
Learning skill	+0.1 per point
Reincarnation (trait)	+1
Humble trait	+0.5
Celibate trait	+1
Devoted trait	+0.3
Saint trait	+2
Is Court Chaplain	+1 (if liege is  Duke) +2 (if liege is  King) +3 (if liege is  Emperor)
Religious Relations council task	+0.05 per councillor Learning skill
Theologian focus	+1
Has a virtuous trait	+1 per trait
Has a sinful trait	-1 per trait
Grand Cathedral	+0.25
Grand Mosque	+0.25
Grand Temple (all types)	+0.25
Mahabodhi Temple	+1
Imam Ali Mosque	+1
Great Mosque of Mecca	+1
Great Mosque of Cordoba	+0.5
Great Mosque of Djenne	+1
Great Mosque of Samarra	+0.3
Canterbury Cathedral	+0.3 base +0.2 per happy powerful vassal
Prophetic Mosque	+0.5
Notre Dame	+1
Brihadeeswarar Temple	+0.25
Shwedagon Pagoda	+0.5
Hagia Sophia	+0.1 per  knight
Hall of Heroes	+0.1 per  knight
Monastic Schools	+0.1 per level
Ritual Hospitality tenet	+0.3 per happy powerful vassal
Braslau holy site	+0.1 per  knight
Is head of faith	+1
Various events

Level of devotion

Each time a character gains piety, they will increase progress towards their next level of devotion, which grants various benefits. A character will lose a level of devotion if they are caught doing something their faith doctrines consider shunned. A character can pay a piety cost with devotion if they don't have enough piety.

Icons	Level of devotion	Clergy Opinion	Theocracy Vassal Tax	Theocracy Vassal Levies	Max Holy War objective rank	Create Holy Orders	Consecrate bloodline	Required piety
	Sinner	-10	0%	0%	None			0
	Dutiful	0	15%	10%	County			1000
	Faithful	+5	25%	20%	Duchy			500
	Devoted Servant	+10	35%	30%	Duchy			1000
	Paragon of Virtue	+20	45%	40%	Kingdom			2000
	Religious Icon	+30	55%	50%	Kingdom			4000

Gold

Gold is a measure of a character's wealth reserves. If a character has negative Gold, they are in Debt. While in Debt, the character:

• can experience various negative events;
• cannot declare war;
• their Counties can acquire Corruption;
• their Men-at-Arms cannot reinforce;
• their armies gain -10  Advantage.

Most rulers start the game with Gold equal to 12 months of income.

Gold can be gained from:	Gold can be spent on:
Your holdings (and their buildings)	Buildings
Vassals	Recruiting Men at Arms
Ransoming prisoners	Creating Titles
Raiding	Hiring Mercenaries
Inheriting	Hosting Feasts & Hunts
Asking the pope	Bribing characters
... (and more)	... (and more)

Income

Monthly gold income comes from multiple sources.

Domain tax is generated by a character's personal holdings. The holder of the barony receives all of the barony's domain tax. It can be increased by the following:

• Character's Stewardship skill (+2% per level)
• Buildings
• Collect Taxes councilor task (+0.5% per Stewardship level)
• County development (+0.5% per level)

Vassal tax is given to a title holder's direct liege. The amount given depends on the vassal's obligations:

• Castles are limited to normal obligations, giving 10% of their domain tax to the liege.
• Cities are held by republics, who provide 20% taxes.
• With the Lay Clergy doctrine, churches function identically to castles.
• With the Theocratic doctrine, churches are held directly by a Realm Priest and are taxed under a separate system.
• Vassal counts, dukes and kings provide tax based on their individual vassal contracts.

Realm Priests receive vassal income at a rate of 25% from Realm Priests belonging to their liege's direct vassals. They also provide up to 50% of their income from directly-controlled churches and their vassal priests to their feudal liege, scaled based on opinion.

The taxable income of feudal vassals (count/duke/king) is their own domain tax, as well as vassal tax from their own vassals. If the vassal receives income from a Realm Priest, this income is not included as taxable income.

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