Reputation list order?

**Oddleif** · February 20, 2009, 04:54 PM

What is the order of reputation? As in is "mixed" better than "so-so" what's the highest and lowest? Is despicable the lowest? It seems I'm always despicable.

The Relations list order also would be helpful.

**RMSN NIKE** · February 20, 2009, 06:38 PM

Mixed and So-So are for 2 different things. Mixed is for reputation and So-So is for inter country relationship.

Reputation: Trusted(?), Reliable, Mixed, Dubious, Despicable. Personally, I rarely see Trusted, and Despicable, maybe they are something else, or there are others I rarely see.

**Vince Noir** · February 20, 2009, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by RMSN NIKE

Mixed and So-So are for 2 different things. Mixed is for reputation and So-So is for inter country relationship.

Reputation: Trusted(?), Reliable, Mixed, Dubious, Despicable. Personally, I rarely see Trusted, and Despicable, maybe they are something else, or there are others I rarely see.

Immaculate being the highest.

**AU4Brent** · February 20, 2009, 07:20 PM

I think they golike this, in order from best to worst.

Very Trustworthy

Trustworthy

Very Reliable

Reliable

Mixed

Dubious

Untrustworthy

Very Untrustworthy

Despicable

There may be more, but these are the only ones I've seen. I've never gotten very trustworthy, but I get trustworthy on a regular basis.

**AU4Brent** · February 20, 2009, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by Oddleif

What is the order of reputation? As in is "mixed" better than "so-so" what's the highest and lowest? Is despicable the lowest? It seems I'm always despicable.

The Relations list order also would be helpful.

Stop being so mean! If you want to know how to gain a good reputation, there's a very good guide floating around somewhere on these forums.

**Oddleif** · February 20, 2009, 07:33 PM

Thanks. If I spy on another countries city and the spy fails does that hurt my relations or reputation?

**RMSN NIKE** · February 20, 2009, 08:15 PM

Yes. And if you leave them in the enemy cities, it will hurt your reputation. But if you take them out before you end the turn, you will only receive the hit when your spy went in to the city. Minor for successful entries.

**Viking Prince** · February 21, 2009, 12:09 AM

Also -- stop knocking off the merchants -- all hurt your rep whether it is by assassin or merchant acquisition.

**axnsan** · February 21, 2009, 12:16 AM

take a peak at the reputation guide in the great informative thread?

**axnsan** · February 21, 2009, 12:17 AM

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Having alliances and maintaining them increases your reputation.
Having good relations with a faction increases your reputation.
Having bad relations decreases it.

Having a high chivalry faction leader increases your reputation.
Having a high dread faction leader decreases it (So best to keep your main bloodline as high chivalry generals, and let some other line of the family be the bastard enforcers).

The best thing to do is to make alliances with specific factions in the game ( the one that you know you don't want to go at war with) at the start, so that you have allies far off who you don't share a border with and who won't be tempted to attack you. Give gifts to any ally who your relations decline with IMMEDIATELY in order to keep your relations at so-so or better (Preferably better, because that increases your reputation faster). Pick a couple of factions to be super allies with, and push your relations with them to perfect, and KEEP them there.

Don't attack an ally ever (Ever). Don't attack a non-ally unless they attack you first. In fact, don't retaliate even, only break their forces in your territory (This is good strategy anyway, fighting them on your home territory gives you the advantage because you should be able to choose your battlefields). If you let them keep entering your territory a few times before retaliating and taking one of their territories, you are much less likely to take a reputation hit. See, if another faction has a BAD reputation, you can attack them freely without losing reputation (In fact you seem to gain reputation for attacking them, as long as you're at war with them and THEY started it). So let them attack you a few times before you retaliate, let their reputation fall and fall and then retaliate.

Additionally, the higher your reputation goes, the bigger hit the enemy will take if they attack you. I've seen factions go from mixed to despicable after attacking me just one time, when I had very high reputations.

High reputation does SO many good things for you in this game, it's worth doing the work to maintain it

Here are the Reputation names that your factions can have from the bad to the good

- Despicable

- Deceitful

- Very Untrustworthy

- Untrustworthy

- Dubious

- Mixed

- Reliable

- Very Reliable

- Trustworthy

- Very trustworthy

- Immaculate

**Silent Assassin** · February 21, 2009, 06:49 PM

Axnsan he is right but I don't know why...lol

**Oddleif** · February 22, 2009, 05:06 AM

I learned today that even stepping or threading into their territory with an army cuased the relations to drop from so-so to poor. This makes sense who wants an army on their lands. Thanks for the help I'm being relialbe in reputation this game no killing merchants or sacking and exterminating towns seems to help alot and a lot less espionage. Also freeing all prisoners. it's hard to be nice.