Changes

*To gain faith (and also [[favor]]), a player can [[praying|pray]] at an [[altar]] or upon a favored tile type of their particular god. In order to do this, however, one must first choose and [[converting|convert]] to a [[religion]].

*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, up to five times per day.  *While prayers additional prayer attempts between these 5 prayers cool-down periods will not raise [[faith]] , they will increase the player's prayer skill. If faith is not gained from a prayer, the action will not be counted against the five prayer per day limit. This scenario occurs when praying as non-[[prayerAccount types|premium]] skill.

- At 10 faith, it becomes possible to [[Favor#Sacrificing|sacrifice]] at altars and to [[Exorcism|desecrate]] altars.

*Faith is not lost when a player dies. *Faith gained on sermon is affected by altar rarity. (+1% for rare, +2% for supreme, +3% for fantastic).

 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''' *To hold a sermon, activate a [[statuette]], '''right click''' an altar, and select '''Preach'''.*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''' prieston foot within this distance does not matter; being embarked on any type of vehicle, cart, however, invalidates the listener), who has . Listeners are allowed to sit. They must also have not done gained or lost any actions that normally give [[alignment]] gain in within the past 30 minutes and . If the player is near already at maximum alignment, the alignment change might not be visible, but will still invalidate the preacher (4 tiles)listener. Note that listening to a sermon will always result in an alignment change. *Sermons give The minimum number of listeners for faith-gain to take place is 4. At a normal altar the priest successfully holding a sermon gains 0.02 faith per valid listener (priest included) in the area. Faith bonus for altar rarity is an extra 1% for rare, 2% for supreme, minimum listeners and 3% for faith gain is 4fantastic. *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 cooldown 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 100.00 alignment, doing any actions that would normally give alignment gain will still invalidate you as a listener6 valid listeners attended. *A mounted player ''can'' count as a listener (mounted on horse, but not embarked on a cart)*Sermons also indicate how much praying is required until the chosen god's ritual ([[Ritual of the Sunsun]], [[Rite of Springspring]], [[Holy Cropcrop]], and or [[Rite of Deathdeath]]) 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.