[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

That isn't what the guide says, and is incorrect. A strength 10 temple will increase the dominion in its current province first, and if it that was already at 10 then the dominion can spread.

Yeah, but strenght 10 temple means that that it is already 10 in the province in temple, by definition. Therefore the spread will happen automatically, unless countered by enemy check. That's what I said in the first place. Therefore "automatic increase" can not be the same as full temple strngth check, again by definition. And there is one, not two of them, if the guide is correct.

Your pretender works in the same manner. There is also some mechanism that is not yet understood that causes the dominion spread that occurs in the early game before any individual province is maximized.

The Last paragraph in the quide that you have posted ling to speaks about it. Altough there are indeed no clear numbers, just general hints to how the formula works. But the point is, the is no need for the temple to be maximised before the dominion will spread. The guide says the the closer dominion is to the maximum, the mose chances are that it'l spread *instead* of increasing it by 1 in the temple province itself. It can aslo explain the difference between "automatic increase" and "temple 10 check".