Prestige

Prestige represents the glory, honor and status of a nation. Countries gain bonuses with positive prestige, and penalties with negative prestige.

Effects of prestige

With maximum prestige of 100, a country gets the following modifiers:

	+15%	Global trade power
	+10%	Morale of armies
	+10%	Morale of navies
	+10%	Foreign spy detection
	+1%	Yearly legitimacy
	+50%	Improve relations
	+1%	Monthly fervor
	−10%	Aggressive expansion impact
	−10%	Embracement cost
	+5%	Brahmins loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Clergy loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Marathas loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Nobility loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Burghers loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Vaishyas loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Cossacks loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Tribes loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Dhimmi loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Jains loyalty equilibrium
	+5%	Rajputs loyalty equilibrium

At −100 prestige a country has the reverse of these benefits as penalties. In-between the benefits and penalties scale linearly. At 0 prestige there are no benefits or penalties from prestige.

Increasing prestige

The following provide a yearly increase in prestige:

Factor	Amount
Philosopher advisor	+1
Defender of the Faith	+1
curia controller	+1
“Papal Blessing” country modifier (from papal influence action “Bless Ruler”)	+1
At war with the target of a crusade	+1
Devotion	+1 at 100 (down to 0 at 50 devotion)
Trading in Fur	+0.5
Power projection	+0.005 per point (max +0.5)
Owns a holy province	+0.5
Holy Roman Emperor	+1
Holy Roman Emperor with “Ewiger Landfriede” imperial reform	+0.5
holding Ambras Castle	+0.1/+0.25/+0.5 (only with )
holding Himeji Castle	+0.5 while province culture is in Japanese group (only with )
holding Holy City of Jerusalem	+0.1/+0.25/+0.5 while province religion is either in Muslim or Christian group or Jewish and same as owner (only with )
holding Kaaba	+0.1/+0.25/+0.5 while province religion is in Muslim group and same as owner (only with )
holding Mount Fuji	+0.5while province religion is either Mahayana or Shinto and same as owner (only with )
holding Temple of Confucius	+0.25/+0.5/+1 while province religion is Confucian and same as owner (only with )
holding Tower of London	+0.25/+0.5 while province culture is either Norman or English and accepted by owner (only with )
Modifiers from random events	Varies

Events that give an immediate change to prestige include:

Factor	Amount
Provinces joining the Empire	Varies by development
Successive Emperors from the same country	+10 prestige
Advantageous peace deals
Exploring terra incognita	Varies?
Growth of colonies to provinces	Varies by development
Converting the religion of a province with the Age of Reformation ability “Prestigious Conversions”	+0.3 per development
Random events	Varies

Certain ideas and bonuses give yearly prestige:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+1.0 yearly	Aachen traditions Chiba traditions Ormond traditions Silesian traditions Sonoran traditions Tyrone traditions	Religious idea 5: Religious Tradition Aboriginal idea 1: Aboriginal Art Ainu idea 4: Heirs of Jomon Air idea 4: The Blue People Alaskan idea 7: The Beauty of Alaska Albanian idea 3: Kingdom of Albania American idea 6: Shining City on a Hill Anatolian idea 7: Legacy of the Great Seljuq Empire Andean idea 7: Zampano Music Anhalt idea 5: Dessau Garden Kingdom Ansbach idea 1: Land of the Hohenzollerns Antemoro idea 3: Office of the Andrianoni Arabian idea 7: Arabia Ashikaga idea 3: Higashiyama Culture Athenian idea 4: Revive the Latin Greece Ava idea 1: Legacy of the Pagan dynasty Aymaran idea 4: Cultivate Aymara Dances Baden idea 1: Hot Springs Bavarian idea 3: Found the Bavarian State Orchestra Bayreuther idea 7: Margravial Opera House Beloozero idea 2: Monastic Traditions Berg idea 6: Dusseldorf Art Gallery Bolognese idea 5: La Rossa Brabant idea 3: Palace of Coudenberg Breton idea 7: The Catholicon Bulgarian idea 5: Reform The Bulgarian Church Burgundian idea 1: The Order of the Golden Fleece Caucasian idea 4: Persian Poetry Chachapoyan idea 6: Purunmachus Chagatai idea 4: Chagatai Literature Charruan idea 7: The Last Charruas Chickasaw idea 7: Swan Feathers Mantle Chinese idea 4: Nation of Rites and Etiquettes Chosokabe idea 6: God of Arts Couronian idea 6: Palaces of Mitau Creek idea 4: Four Mother Towns Dahomey idea 7: Palaces of Abomey Dai Viet idea 2: Confucian Revival Daimyo idea 7: Honor Unto Death Dali idea 1: Renovate the City of Jumie Dortmund idea 2: Meeting Place of Bishops and Emperors Epirote idea 2: Chronicle of the Tocco Estonian idea 6: Estophilia Ethiopian idea 1: Solomonid Claim Franconian idea 6: A Baroque Duchy Frankfurter idea 5: Civil Cultural Centre French ducal idea 5: French Cuisine Fulani Jihad idea 7: The Caliph in Africa German idea 7: Residenzstadt Granada idea 7: Successor Caliphate of Cordoba Guarani idea 3: Echoes of Iguazu Hanoverian idea 4: Herrenhausen Gardens Hatakeyama idea 1: Kanrei Candidate Hausan idea 2: Regnal Chronicles Hejazi idea 7: Successor to the Caliphate Highlander idea 7: Ossian Huron idea 7: Eldest Children Imagawa idea 6: In the Shadow of Mount Fuji Incan idea 1: Machu Picchu Iroquois idea 7: The Four Kings Indian Sultanate idea 6: High Court Culture Interlacustrine idea 2: Heirs of Kitara Italian idea 5: High Renaissance Art & Architecture Italian (cU) idea 6: Heir to the Empire Ito idea 1: Gokenin Family Japanese idea 5: Land of the Rising Sun Jaunpuri idea 6: Hindustani Classical Music Jerusalem idea 1: Crown of Thorns Kangra idea 6: Pahari Painting Khmer idea 6: Restoration of Angkor Kievan idea 1: Mother of All Cities Kikuchi idea 2: Land of Fire Kuban idea 3: People of Ornaments K'iche idea 7: Popol Vuh Ladakh idea 1: The Two Kingdoms of Ladakh Laotian idea 2: Nithan Khun Borom Leonese idea 6: Patronize the Leonese Language Lorraine idea 7: Place Stanislas Madyas idea 5: Articles of the Confederation Mainzian idea 1: Archicancellarius per Germaniam Malayan sultanate idea 6: Heirs of Pasai Mamluk idea 2: Monuments to our Greatness Mapuche idea 7: Ruxafe Mazovian idea 1: Piast Legacy Mewari idea 2: Construct the Victory Tower Miao idea 4: Miao Silver Milanese idea 2: Patron of Music Moldavian idea 1: First Dismounting Mori idea 7: Hagi Ware Mughal idea 6: Mughal Architecture Muiscan idea 2: El Dorado Neapolitan idea 6: City of Artists Nepalese Princedom idea 4: Kavindra Nivernais idea 7: Greatest Palace of the Loire Valley Northumbrian idea 5: Lindisfarne Gospels Norwegian idea 7: Write New Sagas Novgorod idea 1: Northern Center of Arts Ogasawara idea 2: Suwa Taisha Orissan idea 5: Patronize Temple Construction Orleanaise idea 1: Monsieur d'Orleans Pagarruyung idea 6: Rumah Gadang Persian idea 5: Encourage Art Perugian idea 4: Perugian Signoria Pisan idea 2: The Leaning Tower Pueblo idea 7: Legend of Cibola Rajput idea 5: Create Rajput Painting School Rothenburg idea 2: The Beautiful City Ryukyuan idea 3: Shuri Castle Sadiyan idea 4: Temples of Sadiya Shirvani idea 6: Shirvani Architecture Sinhalese idea 2: Sinhalese Sandesas Sistani idea 2: Saffarid Legacy Songhai idea 5: The Hajj South Indian idea 6: South Indian Literature Spanish idea 7: Siglo de Oro Sukhothai idea 1: Birthplace of a Culture Sumatran idea 6: Legacy of Srivijaya Swabian idea 6: Memory of the Hohenstaufen Swiss idea 6: Haven for Refugees Telugu idea 1: Patronize Telugu Literature Texan idea 1: Lone Star State Timurid idea 1: Timurid Architecture Tirhuti idea 3: Brahmin Kings Toki idea 2: Ranjatai Transoxianian idea 2: Threshold of Paradise Trebizondian idea 1: Komnenoi in Exile Trierian idea 6: Prüm Abbey Tsutsui idea 3: Kasuga Shrine Tuscan idea 4: Patron of the Arts Ulmer idea 3: Birthplace of German Realism Ulster idea 2: Peerage of Ulster Urbinate idea 3: The Ducal Palace of Urbino Veronese idea 2: In Fair Verona Vijayanagar idea 5: Carnatic Music Vindhyan idea 4: Bundeli Kalam Welsh idea 2: Bardic Literature Württemberger idea 6: Ludwigsburg Wurzburgian idea 7: Baroque Artists Yamana idea 5: Acquisition of Torin'in Yemeni idea 4: Yemeni Architecture	Ardabili ambition Bengali ambition Byzantine ambition Caspian ambition Chimu ambition Great Shun ambition Kildarean ambition Krakowian ambition Luban ambition Provençal ambition Saxon ambition Sicilian ambition Smolenskian ambition	—
+0.5 yearly	—	Bahmani idea 2: Legacy of Gisu Daraz Farsi idea 5: Shirazi School Ferraran idea 6: Este Castle Lotharingian idea 5: The Court of Europe Malvi idea 2: Malvi Art & Architecture Montferrat idea 1: Cousins to Kings and Emperors Ruthenian idea 1: The Mother of Russian States Sardinian-Piedmontese idea 3: The Shroud of Turin Savoyard idea 2: The Shroud of Turin Vermont idea 2: The Boston Tea Party	—	Humanist-Quality: Visionary Thinkers Innovative-Plutocratic: The Education Act

There are also several action that directly impact the amount of prestige. Winning battles will give prestige depending on how many combatants that fought. The prestige gained can be increased by:

Land battles

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+100%	Native traditions Shawnee traditions	Offensive idea 4: Glorious Arms Ashikaga idea 1: Head of the Genji Siberian idea 5: Land Bought with Blood	—	—
+50%	—	Great Qing idea 7: The Ten Great Campaigns Shiba idea 1: Tradition of Military Service Sonoran idea 7: Taking the Fight South	Yaroslavlyian ambition	—
+25%	—	Desmondian idea 6: Promote the Culture of Service	—	—

Holding Sankin-kotai Palaces also grants +50/+100% Prestige from land battles (only with )

Losing prestige

• Uncontested cores: a yearly decrease of -0.1 prestige for every one of your core provinces held by another nation.
• Unlawful territory: a yearly decrease of -1 prestige for every uncored province held in the HRE that was conquered from a member of the HRE
• Losing land and naval battles
• Disadvantageous peace deals
• Refusing a Call to Arms (usually -25)
• -2 annually for being excommunicated
• Random event options
• -10 for selling a province
• -100 for converting to another religion
• Counter revolution -5
• Yearly prestige decay (see sub-section below)
• Giving in to rebel demands, prestige loss depends on rebel type
• -1 yearly decrease for having 0 devotion as a theocracy (only with Common Sense enabled); increases proportionally to devotion, to 0 at 50 devotion
• -5 to increase the influence and loyalty of most of the estates
• -50 for disinheriting heirs ( Rights of Man only)
• -0.05 per daimyo not at the same isolationism level as the Shogun ( Mandate of Heaven and Shogun government only)

Decay

There is a base decay of 5% prestige per year: that is, a country loses 5% of its current prestige every year. This includes negative prestige, meaning that prestige always tends towards a base level (by default zero), and changes faster the farther away it is from the base level. For monarchies, each point of prestige will eventually convert itself to about 0.195 points of legitimacy with a half-life of 13.5 years. The idea “Patron of the Arts” from the Innovative idea group reduces this decay rate by -1%, to 4% loss per year. This means that each change of ±1 prestige per year changes the base level of prestige by ±20, or ±25 with Patron of the Arts; without other sources of prestige (such as battles) it will approach the base level over time. A few national ideas also lower prestige decay:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−1.0% yearly	Brunswicker traditions Javan traditions Permian traditions Smolenskian traditions	Innovative idea 1: Patron of the Arts Aachen idea 1: Charlemagne's Capital Baden idea 7: Grand Duchy of Baden Bamberger idea 2: Bamberg Cathedral Circassian idea 5: Adyghe Beauty Colognian idea 2: Archicancellarius per Italiam Cornish idea 7: Arthurian Romanticism French ducal idea 2: Renaissance Palaces Kangra idea 1: Katoch Lineage Kurdish idea 7: Gorani Literature Lotharingian idea 1: Legacy of the Carolingians Nuremberger idea 1: Imperial Regalia Palatinate idea 6: Hortus Palatinus Papal idea 3: Glory of Rome Sienese idea 5: Sienese School of Painting Tupi idea 2: The Two Tribes	Croatian ambition Ryukyuan ambition	Humanist-Quality: Visionary Thinkers
−0.5% yearly	—	Kiwi idea 3: Piopiotahi	—	—

If Rights of Man is active, great powers also enjoy a prestige decay reduction of -1%. As the Mughals with the Mughal Diwan government reform, conquering and assimilating all provinces in the Ugric culture group will grant a prestige decay reduction of -1%. As Florence or Tuscany, completing "Academy of the Bran" in the Tuscan missions will grant a permanent prestige decay reduction of -2%.

If Leviathan is active, two great projects also grant prestige decay reduction for their owner (if they fulfill requirements)

• Holding Taj Mahal grants a reduction of -0.5/-1% (depending on level) as long as province religion is in Muslim group and same as owner
• Holding The Forbidden City grants a reduction of -1/-2% (depending on level) as long as province religion is Confucian and same as owner

Spending Prestige

These actions are voluntary and will immediately decrease prestige, providing the noted effect

• Placate local rulers: -20 will decrease Liberty Desire in a vassal or colonial subject by -10%
• Request to share maps: -15 will purchase maps of a region and transfer +10 prestige to the seller. (Only learn what the selling nation knows)
• Disinherit heir: -50 will remove an heir from the succession
• Abdicate the throne: -50 will remove a hereditary ruler

Footnotes

Mechanics

Customization

Nation designer • Random New World

Ages and Institutions

Ages • Institutions

Innovativeness and Technology

Innovativeness • Technology

Defense

Fort • Zone of control