Loyalty: A Critical Status for Warriors

Loyalty is a crucial status for Warriors/Heroes, serving as senior personnel in the labor and professional system. Loyalty plays a key role in preventing surrender and maintaining city management efficiency:

1. Importance of Preventing Surrender

• Impact of Low Loyalty: Warriors with low loyalty may decide to surrender to enemies or be recruited by opponents.
• Maintaining Stability: Loyalty is essential not just to preserve skilled units, but to prevent valuable personnel and kingdom resources from falling into enemy hands.

2. Connection with Professional Roles

High-level warriors can be assigned official positions beyond combat to manage buildings and city affairs:

• Work Efficiency: Loyalty directly affects performance in assigned roles.
• Example Positions: Public Security Officer – high loyalty and proper level are required to maintain order in populous cities.
• Other Positions: Roles in science, rituals, and administration require trustworthy warriors.

3. Managing Loyalty and Its Fluctuations

Loyalty management involves handling personnel resources effectively:

• Rewards and Ranks: Assigning official positions (5 levels) and granting gold rewards increase loyalty.
• Factors Causing Decrease: As warriors level up, loyalty may drop, requiring higher positions or more rewards to motivate them.
• Link to Strength: Loyalty decline is related to the supply system; if Strength drops to zero, loyalty decreases regardless of morale.

4. Tactical Insights

• Free Loyalty Boost: Certain techniques can raise loyalty to 100 without spending gold or high ranks, by repeatedly granting rewards without rank or gold.
• Hiring New Warriors: When rival kingdoms collapse, wandering warriors can be hired at the Inn, and their loyalty must be managed from the start.

In summary, in the broader labor system, loyalty is a "risk management tool" that players must carefully maintain through rewards and positions to ensure smooth operation of cities and armies without betrayal.