One of the core resources you can get in Manor Lords is Influence, which can help you press Claims for more land and negotiate with other settlements through Diplomacy. Having high Influence gives you a better chance to expand and let your settlement grow. However, you need to gather enough of the right resources to raise this aspect of your community through specific locations.
While the most Influence is gained from actions taken in your own community, you can gain it quickly by conquering Bandit camps around the world. These are fast, one-time boosts to your Influence when you take out hostile areas run by Bandits on the map. However, the combat of Manor Lords can be tricky to understand at first and risks you losing multiple people or materials by committing to fights.
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How To Farm Influence Quickly
Build And Adjust The Right Locations
The best way to farm Influence is to build a Church within your town and create a Manor whose Tithe adjustments affect your overall Influence gained at the end of every month. Simply creating a religious building will give you some Influence, but its continued existence will build more rapidly. Upgrading the Church you've made will allow its Influence to grow even more as you engage with more RTS gameplay of Manor Lords.
The key system behind Influence comes from the "Taxes" section of your Manor once it has been built. Here, you can adjust the taxation of your settlement along with the Tithe fee taken by the Church once a month has ed. A Tithe refers to the amount of food the Church takes, calculated by a percentage you can adjust in the same way as the Land Tax in Manor Lords mentioned earlier.
Be careful about raising the Tithe or Land Tax of your community since your village's Approval Rating can easily go down if the people living in your settlement are constantly taxed by its leadership.
The surplus food taken by the Church is converted into Influence at the end of the month, making it the quickest way to farm the resource among Manor Lord's important features. The more food you manage to grow or collect, the higher you can raise the Manor's Tithe. The amount of Influence gained is much larger when you have a higher Tithe set by the Church based on what your settlement can afford.
Try to build more farms to raise your crop yield during the harvest and have more food to spend on the monthly Tithe. While you will likely experience a drop in your settlement's Approval, you only need to get Influence fast for whatever project you have in mind, from claiming more land to negotiations with other groups in Manor Lords.
