Reputation?

**Willbreaker** · 11-14-2006, 11:40

Hello,

I have a question about reputation and that is
How do I increase my reputation? It just seems to go down and down, even though I don't break alliances or anything. Perhaps it goes down when you exterminate populations and don't occupy?

Cause I do that alot.

/Breaker

**Darkmoor_Dragon** · 11-14-2006, 11:49

It is a bit odd to say the least.

I'm in the same position, never broken an alliance yet when the French break their alliance with me its MY reputation that went down and not theirs.

Which, to say the least, is a bit odd.

And as successive allies break off to attack me my reputation keeps going down and down.

In the end i've just resigned myself to every faction attacking me and never agreeing to any further diplomacy - so i now totally ignore any diplomatic actions as it appears to be pointless in actually making alliances - all it does is ruin your reputation and, apparently, encourage being stabbed in the back.

It would be nice to find out that there is some alternative, and logical, reason behind all this.

I live in hope.

**Willbreaker** · 11-14-2006, 13:14

Wow! That's bad!

The thing that really messes things up is that reputation is important! You can almost never get military access if you have a poor reputation!

/Breaker

**lecnac** · 11-14-2006, 13:27

The reputation thing is not really working, note that almost each AI faction receives a bad reputation in the course of the game. It is too easy to receive a punishment in this area, especially when attacking hostile units in your territory,even when sieging your cities. Which is absolutely wrong.

**Scottn72** · 11-14-2006, 14:46

Do you mean your reputation overall, or your relationship with a specific faction, as these are two different things.

If it is relationship, I would be interested in getting some advice on this too, as I didn't pay it much attention at the beginning of my campaign, and now I have poor relationships with all my neighbours and I can't seem to improve them.

Also in my game many of the factions who have broken alliances previously with any faction are shown as having a poor reputation. So I suppose improving relations with these factions isn't going to help that much.