3/2 - What is the Inquisitor supposed to do at the moment?

[Stalker0]

Honestly between changes and bugs, I am not actually sure what the Inquisitor is intended to do at this moment. Could one of the mods enlighten us all?

 

[SuperNoobCamper]

I swear at some point it had an effect on passive pressure, right now all understand is it's supposed to reduce active spread by 50% and remove hersey from owned cities.

 

[tu_79]

I swear at some point it had an effect on passive pressure, right now all understand is it's supposed to reduce active spread by 50% and remove hersey from owned cities.

Yeah, that's the last thing I remember.

 

[DeAnno]

What exactly does removing heresy do though? Does it remove all the foreign pressure and then recompute believers?

 

[jekke]

So I understand, currently an inquisitor in a city does not prevent foreign missionaries to spread their religion?

 

[Ranslee]

I'm using Inquisitors as a way to remove all pressure from other religions, a cheaper Great prophet. I don't keep them around, just purchase, move and use.

 

[pineappledan]

I would like an answer to this as well. Inquisitors have a ConversionStrength of 1000. Does that actually do anything in game?

 

[randomnub]

Funny, I entered into a 4 fronts religious war and got confused a bit, enough to post on github.

https://github.com/LoneGazebo/Community-Patch-DLL/issues/7665

 

[pineappledan]

As I understand it:

• Inquisitors were changed so they reduce missionary spread actions by 50%.
  
• In that same patch, inquisitors stationed in cities were SUPPOSED to also reduce passive pressure to that city, but that was never implemented (the patch notes said it was tho)
• Inquisitors remove foreign religions from a city and then convert a portion of that city’s population to your religion based on... math. Inquisitors have a religious strength on spread, but they don’t use that attribute to determine their conversion strength after they have removed other religions.
• Inquisitors only work if a foreign religion has a majority in a city. This means that if you lost majority in your city, but another religion didn’t take its place as majority (ie. enough foreign pressure hit the city to nullify your religion, but not enough to actually flip the city), then you can only use missionaries to flip it back.

 

[Stalker0]

A lot of speculation, but hopefully one of the devs can drop in and let us know what was actually implemented. I've seen too much hearsay on the subject, so its time to settle it once and for all.

 

[ilteroi]

As I understand it:

• Inquisitors were changed so they reduce missionary spread actions by 50%.
  
• In that same patch, inquisitors stationed in cities were SUPPOSED to also reduce passive pressure to that city, but that was never implemented (the patch notes said it was tho)
• Inquisitors remove foreign religions from a city and then convert a portion of that city’s population to your religion based on... math. Inquisitors have a religious strength on spread, but they don’t use that attribute to determine their conversion strength after they have removed other religions.
• Inquisitors only work if a foreign religion has a majority in a city. This means that if you lost majority in your city, but another religion didn’t take its place as majority (ie. enough foreign pressure hit the city to nullify your religion, but not enough to actually flip the city), then you can only use missionaries to flip it back.

an accurate summary

 

[Stalker0]

So let me update based on what I have seen and the answers just provided:

• Inquisitors were changed so they reduce missionary spread actions by 50% (DEVS: Can you confirm if reducing Great Prophet spread was also intended?)
• In that same patch, inquisitors stationed in cities were SUPPOSED to also reduce passive pressure to that city (DEVS: Can you confirm if you did intend to do this, and it never went through, or you had not intended to add that ability).
• Inquisitors remove foreign religions from a city and then convert a portion of that city’s population to your religion based on... math. Inquisitors have a religious strength on spread, but they don’t use that attribute to determine their conversion strength after they have removed other religions.
• Inquisitors only work if a foreign religion has a majority in a city. This means that if you lost majority in your city, but another religion didn’t take its place as majority (ie. enough foreign pressure hit the city to nullify your religion, but not enough to actually flip the city), then you can only use missionaries to flip it back. (based on my most recent game this is incorrect. I was successfully able to flip back my holy city with an inquisitor even when it lost a religion and had no majority one).

 

[Ranslee]

You can use inquisitors even if your religion is still the majority in a city.

I assumed that Inquisitors would remove all foreign pressure and then apply their religious power to a city like missionaries do; it's good to know that's not the case and of course quite misleading. This means Spain's buffed inquisitors are just regular inquisitors.

The whole religious pressure system seems to be a bit obscure at times...

 

[pineappledan]

This means Spain's buffed inquisitors are just regular inquisitors.

That unlock earlier, but yes, they aren't actually any stronger, which is what I hoped they would do.

If inquisitors are able to be changed to block passive pressure, maybe spanish inquisitors could block ALL passive pressure? Some people have asked for a return to Spain's pressure immunity, and I would be less opposed to the idea if it at least took some investment on Spain's part to get inquisitors in all cities.