Ask to Influence Candidacy is Useless

[MrPotato]

Trying to ask your fellow vassal friends to influence candidacy in Admnistrative Government is pointless...

In a point in the game it is costing me 500 gold to make the interaction and when I do with a vassal that have 3000 Influence he only spends less than 100 to improve my candidate score by a mediocre 10 points...

It's a pretty good mechanism wasted... That was suppose to improve your network of governor friends supporting your candidates for the empire tittle, just useless all the game

 

[Quuaddib]

I've been using this interaction quite a bit, but only with hooks instead of gold - seems a way better deal. Although I agree that it's not great that you do not know beforehand how much influence another character is going to spend if you ask them to influence a candidacy.

 

[Voy]

I think the interaction should be locked if the target doesn't have enough influence to support any character. It telegraphs better who to use that interaction with, without wasting your time.

 

[MrPotato]

I've been using this interaction quite a bit, but only with hooks instead of gold - seems a way better deal. Although I agree that it's not great that you do not know beforehand how much influence another character is going to spend if you ask them to influence a candidacy.

Oh, nice thinking using hooks, but still very bad to change a hook for a 10 point increase...

I think the interaction should be locked if the target doesn't have enough influence to support any character. It telegraphs better who to use that interaction with, without wasting your time.

Yeah, but still, like I said, this one character I paid 500 gold was a 3000 Influence Powerful Familily member and still he paid 50 Influence for a 10 points for my candidate, just like WHAT? Man, he wasnt even greedy nor anything like that. It reeaaly seemed like a scam, lol