Hello,

I am oftentimes reading this forum, almost never posting.
But now I have quite a large problem in my gaming and there is no other place to go than here. I have many hours of gameplay experience so I know my way around in this game, but this problem I really cannot beat.

It's about diplomacy, which often works very well - but when I conquer the world it does not! The problem - specificially - is that alot of nations starts attacking me when I am conquering. My reputation will also go down to absolute zero which means even more attacking and diplomacy being harder.

To counter this problem which has happened exactly the same way the four last games (which I've never finished just for that). At the start I hold my country, expanding via killing the moors - just for example - taking a small part of Iberia. I never finished the war - I took Iberia and thought I'd save Africa for later. Now I was taking a pause, waiting for the natural enemy of Spain to attack me (Yes, they declared war on me) and I finished them off. I have no idea what my rep was at now, but I did nothing else than conquer them. Now France attacks, I attack them taking a large portion of their lands. I sack their settlements and execute prisoners always. Then England attacks, Milan, Holy Roman Empire. And there I am. I quit. (Playing on Easy/Very hard)

I will try the next game to simply release and occupy all settlements. I've read it should improve my diplomacy reputation and I will not start wars I guess that would help (confirm, anyone?) and see how it goes.

For the moment, I would really love to hear to your oppinions on what to do because I'm absolutely certain alot of people has this problem.

Thanks
/Breaker