*Faith gain is not affected by [[sleep bonus]] or by praying at different types of altars (i.e. made of gold, silver, stone, or wood). Faith skill is not lost when a player dies.
*It can take a player approximately a month (praying five times a day) to reach the 30 faith needed to become a [[priest]].
*Holding a [[sermon]] will reward a preacher with a faith related bonus when preaching to groups a group of listeners. A listener is a [[premium ]] player, of the same [[religion]], which has not received an [[alignment ]] gain in the past half hour, and is near the preacher(4 tiles?). Alignment gains are notorious for messing up sermonsbreaking a sermon, and make sure this requirement doesn't disqualify one of your listeners.
# With six or more listeners the preacher's faith gains through prayer are reset to five. This can be done every three hours per a priest.
# With eleven or more listeners the preacher is rewarded with a .2 instant faith bonus in addition to the size six reward. This works once per day can be done every three hours per a priest.
*Sermon frequency is limited to every three hours for a priests. Although, within this window that same preacher can be a listener in another priest's sermon.