I'm more Creo + Corpus than CrCo based. I needed to be Creo based because of the alchemy, and Corpus is just so darned useful. I took a few healing spells because I have a high CrCo combo, but that's not my focus. Paulos and Poenitens seem to have a healing focus.
My focus because of Holy Magic should actual momentary rituals and Creo Corpus offer the most useful ones. (I can spend 1 long-term fatigue instead of 3 vis)
Even if not that great compared to a longevity ritual from 1 season lab work my magus also can invent a ritual magic that give a bonus to aging rolls for 1 year and we decided its also Creo Corpus. (Lvl 30 with touch range give +1 , lvl 35 +2 and so on)
There also a wealth of special intellego magic my magus can go into but I plan to leave this for after game start.
Yes its not great because of the warping points (5 per year unless he/she is the person who the spell is adjusted to) but depending on how High the ritual is that I manage to invent it might still worth the time to invent it and later add one or more level of mastery to this ritual to have more person that only gain 1 warping point / year.
glancing through the website I noticed an error- aging bonus to loyalty can only be high enough to balance the negative value of base loyalty, as it represents acclimation to the Gift for member magi.
I don't see how that follows. My understanding was that the bonus for a positive aging modifier represents that people like living at the covenant because it is a pleasant place to live and people who work there tend to live longer. I don't see that it has anything to do with acclimation to the magi.
In fact, curiously, despite it being an established covenant, I haven't included any bonus from acclimation to the Magi. That bonus (when we get it) should definitely be limited to +10 (i.e., only offsetting our base loyalty modifier). But I can't see how the benefit to living in a healthy environment would in any way be limited by base loyalty.
The explanation above the quoted section is that this is essentially the time it takes for the covenfolk to become accustomed to the Gift of the resident magi.
The covenant being a pleasant place to live etc. is in the other bonuses which derive from it actually being a pleasant place to live (better wages, healthy features, better wages)
That was my understanding as well. Currently. the modifier for "Years with magi" is 0. That modifier cannot go higher than is sufficient to offset the base loyalty. So, once that increases, it cannot go higher than +10.
Again, I'm in agreement. The bonus for +3 aging modifier is because the covenant is a pleasant place to live. That is not restricted by base loyalty.