Why oh why?
Why does my relationship with the pope suffer when I defend myself, in my own province, from invading armies?
Why are other factions allowed to attack me, seemingly without any sanction from the pope?
Why am I rated as 'very untrustworthy' despite never having broken a treaty or even starting a war?
Why have the last 2 papal elections been won by a cardinal with less votes than the guy I voted for?
Why did I pay good money for this game because it's really starting to get me down?
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Re: Why oh why?
1. Can be attributed to having a poor rep vs someone with a good rep (attacking you)
2. The pope does get mad at them, but it takes him a while especially if they have good standings with him.
3. Having a Dread leader, killing prisoners, exterminating cities, and using spies/assassins can have that effect, and using a war someone else started as a reason to expand frivolously makes you seem like the bad guy that was waiting for an excuse to be bad.
4. I've heard of this bug, not entirely sure why myself, maybe has something to do with traits or such (like maybe having a violent pope makes you have a base penalty? or perhaps difficulty of the game?)
5. Join the club
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Re: Why oh why?
As long as they are not at war with you their armies shouldn't cause you any problems, except maybe blocking your own armies and making them take the long route. Otherwise, if the enemy are there to invade you, let them declare war and suffer the consequences. It is a good point though, it is why people are calling for a "Get off my land!" diplomacy option.Originally Posted by Primative1
They may be balancing their rep with the Pope by building churches, having many cardinals etc. From what I've seen every Catholic faction takes a heavy hit on their pope-o-meter for declaring war on fellow Catholics.
If you ally with many factions, then as soon as you brake the alliance with any one of them when they go to war with each other, you take a rep hit. Using spies, assasins, sezing rival merchants assets etc also cause you to take a rep hit.
Are you sure? I have never heard of this problem before.
Its has its bugs but M2TW is still IMO one of the best games out there, and there's no-one to rival the TW series at all right now.
Last edited by Rhyfelwyr; 10-22-2007 at 20:34.
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Re: Why oh why?
Thanks for the replies guys;
1: HRE declared war on my a few years back & attacked one of my provinces. I gave him a beating on my own turf and next turn my relationship with the pope nosedived. He was more popular with the pope than I so I reckon that was it.
2: I'm currently trying to fight off 4 factions and am in the farcical position of having to allow the danes' ships to land armies in Britain 'cos to intercept them gets me excommed!!!
3: I did use assassins extensively early in the game but now I just concentrate on killing ai assassins. I thought a successful assassination was undetected by ai faction anyhow. I only use thieves to protect my cities & to act as mobile watchtowers. I usually ransom prisoners and sack cities, as this is was the way things were done historically.
4: Yep, this has definately happened at least twice. 7-4 and 5-4 wins for my guys resulted in a hostile 4 vote cardinal becoming pope.
5: Are there any good mods out there? I've seen as much of vanilla as I can stomach. I like a long game, EB is my fave mod (roll on EB2) for Rome.
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Re: Why oh why?
Papal elections are sometimes bugged. Reload the save from the turn before and vote again; this should cause it to straighten out. I haven't sorted out what actually triggers it though.
Re: Why oh why?
1. It could be that HRE had an alliance with the Pope or you did something else that turn to piss him off.
2. You can attack any other faction too, but eventually you're relations will go down. They probably haven't been as aggressive as you and probably never fought for too long before.
3. Sacking cities I think will slowly bring down your reputation as will not helping you allies from their enemies or breaking alliances even if done so indirectly.
4. I never head of this bug before, maybe take a screenshot of it next time?
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Re: Why oh why?
Answer to all your problems, as with real life:
You need to butter up the pope. Same for the election - often the cardinal from the papal states will become pope because he is favored by the previous pope. You can say its not fair, but so is life.
Again, some greenbacks...er, florins should do the job.
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Re: Why oh why?
I've had the same problem with a papal election recently. I outvoted evryone else on my own (by a good couple of votes) and somehow lost the election... the same screen showed that my cardinal had more votes and another cardinal had won the election.
If that isn't a bug you can bang me sideways and call me Sally.
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