How do you improve global reputation ?

[Shahed]

Hi All !

Playing Turks still first campaign. Got some questions on reputation. My reputation is dropping all the time. Although I have done absoluetly NOTHING aggressive. The Byzantines declared on me, then the Egyptians backstabbed me, in the typical fashion.

Then I took Constantinople and a Crusade was declared against me, which I utterly smashed to minute particles, and rightfully so. Then almost everyone came along with a Crusade army, but once dealt with, came back with ceasefire offers. Why though is my reputation on the decline. Always released or ransomed captured prisoners, depending on if I judged the opposing faction to be able to pay the ransom.

So....

1. How do you improve reputation globally ?
2. What determines your reputation ? What factors ?

Thanks.

[Spartiate]

I've found that as a Muslim fation you are pretty much screwed after the Pope calls the First Crusade as now you have dropped in the estimation of most of the factions in the game.God forbid if you defend yourself against a crusadeing army passing through your lands by the way.Apparently that is a no-no and annoys the Catholic factions even more so.

As any Catholic faction i find that all you need to do is honour your agreements and treaties and your rep goes up.Seems unfair that the Muslim factions suffer because they are outnumbered 3 to 1 and so will always have the ill-will of 10 or so Catholic factions.

[IPoseTheQuestionYouReturnTheAnswer]

Yup, I'd agree with Spartiate. As a muslim faction, once the first crusade waddles its way toward you your relations irreparably plummet. I've been at Abysmal with every faction in the game for 100+ turns now, even when I was allied with Venice for a while. Sigh.

[Shahed]

Ok that explains it. No more Mr. Nice guy.

All prisoners put to the sword, all settlements annihilated, from this moment on !

ROFL.

Are there any friends for the Turks ? or you have to go it alone basically, I guess.

[sapi]

You should try the byzantines mate - not only do the Catholics hate you, the Muslims do too :P

[Shahed]

Ouch... great ! I will try that, next campaign.

Got a bit of a setback on the current one, just found out how to change the time scale so one turn is 6 months. Means I'll have to restart. OMG... 4 days I been playing this campaign, and it's not great but it is good. Oh well.... ere we go again.