Talk:Reputation (M2TW)

I've heard that destroying a faction reduces reputation.

Ditto for attacking a faction with whom you have trade rights.

Furthermore, I thought that the end of turn normalization was positive (normalize to +1.0) on easy difficulty and negative for hard and very hard difficulties.

I also know that attacking a crusading army as a catholic nation will severely harm your reputation.

Does the author of this wiki know to what extent the above factors are true?

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"The last paragraph may not be entirely true. I personally have noticed a direct connection between faction leader rep and the use of spies and assassins. ..." <- I think the entire paragraph should be stricken from the page as that is the leader's personal reputation and not the faction's reputation. Furthermore, the leader's personal reputation has little direct consequence to the faction's reputation; I had a "Merciless" king with a "Very Reliable" faction reputation.

On another point, my reputation doesn't seem to be penalised for attacking a faction with whom I have trade rights with. I managed to blitzed and destroyed France in one turn, with whom I had trade rights with, and didn't suffer the huge -0.15 point drop. In fact, when I again blitzed and destroyed Milan in one turn some time later, my faction got upgraded to "Reliable", probably because I was close to it, freed prisoners and occupy their settlements.

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.15 isn't that huge: on a scale of -1 to 1 every level of reputation is approximately .2 apart. So if you broke trade rights and then occupied and released you wouldn't expect your reputation to drop significantly.