Changes

*Praying may take place in back-to-back sessions, but a 20-minute cool-down period is needed between prayers in order for each subsequent prayer to count toward further faith skill gain. While prayers additional prayer attempts between these 5 prayers cool-down periods will not raise [[faith]] , they will increase the player's [[prayer]] skill.

 Holding a sermon will reward a preacher with is yet one more way in which a player may gain faith -related bonus when bonuses. This involves holding a service and preaching to a group of nearby listeners.   '''Procedure''' *A valid listener is a [[premium]] player of the same [[kingdom]] and of any religion, who is within 4 tiles of the one giving the sermon (both follower '''being mounted or on foot within this distance does not matter; being embarked on any type of vehicle or''' priestcart, however, invalidates the listener), who has . They must also have not done gained any actions that normally give [[alignment]] gain in within the past 30 minutes and is near the preacher (4 tiles). *Sermons give 0.02 faith per valid listener (priest included) in the area, The minimum number of listeners for faith -gain to take place is 4. *The priest giving the sermon does NOT not count as a listener. So you need 7 players total to reset the prays for the day (the preacher and 6 valid listeners). *Sermons reset have a three hour cool-down period for the prayer counter for sermon-giver, and within this time, the preacher if 6 valid listeners attendedplayer cannot give another sermon. This counts only for Freedom serversWithin this cool-down period, however, preachers on the same preacher can effectively serve as a listener in another priest'''Epic servers do not get this benefits sermon.''' **If Note: if you did not gain at least 0.12 faith from the sermon itself, you did there were not have enough valid listeners present to reset your prayer counter.**Sermons do not reset the prayer  '''timerListener Benefits''*Followers of sermons now count as long as you have a deity and are in the same kingdom (since update of 2/05/2012)*A sermon has a three hour cooldown for the preacher. Within this time, the preacher cannot give another sermon. Although, within this window that same preacher can be a listener in another priest's sermon.**Server day reset does not reset the 3h cool down**If your listeners have less than 100.00 alignment , they may gain up to 4 alignment depending on the number of listeners (+ for [[Whitelighter|WL]], - for [[Blacklighter|BL]]) *Sermons made Note: sermons given by different priests need to be spaced at least 30 mins minutes apart in order to countcontinue to benefit the listener.*A player with an alignment gain in the last 30mins doesn`t count toward towards a sermon (they won '''Additional Priest Benefits'''t cause a Sermon to fail but they wont count so make sure you have enough listeners excluding them) **Alignment gains exceeding 100.00 still count as a gain Sermons reset the prayer counter for sermon purposes. Even the preacher if you have 1006 valid listeners attended.00 alignment, doing any actions that would normally give alignment gain will still invalidate you as a listenerThis counts only for Freedom servers. *A mounted player ''can'' count as a listener (mounted Preachers on horse, but Epic servers do not embarked on a cart)get this benefit. *Sermons also indicate how much praying is required until the chosen god's ritual ([[Ritual of the Sun]], [[Rite of Spring]], [[Holy Crop]], and or [[Rite of Death]]) is ready. In order from right after casting the ritual to the ritual being almost ready (some messages may be missing, please add if you see some):**''Priestname'' explains how ''Godname'' is in the waning crescent and needs you to do more for him so that he may manifest his powers.**''Priestname'' explains how ''Godname'' is still waning and needs you to keep working for her so that she may manifest her powers.**''Priestname'' explains how ''Godname'' is strong but still needs you to work faithfully so that she may manifest her powers.**''Priestname'' speaks of miracles soon to comeperformed.