Could it be that the king's authority is important too? At some point in my English campaign my King's authority was maxed out along with dread and I had a very good diplomat. It seemed like almost anything I offered to anybody was considered to be "generous". It was on medium difficulty, btw.

Quote Originally Posted by knoddy
playing english camp on M/M. i have never broken an alliance, although ive had bout 6 broken on me, and yet my reputation is untrustworthy or something like that. its wrong. I had a alliance with the danes from about turn 10, about 100 turns in they attack me, the stupid thing is, they say "they attack when they see a soft target", they attack a city bordering theres that had a full stack of my best units (dismounted knights, armoured swordsmen, retinue longbows).

also, despite being utterly smashed the french would not consider a cease fire at all. i had them down to 1 province with 2 xbow men, a catapault, and a few random family members walking around, and htey still would not accept ceasefire.

so yes i think the reputation thing needs fixing, cos i have done nothing bad to other friendly factions yet im "untrustworthy" what???

Cheers Knoddy