medieval 2 total war

oyunda dikkat edilmesi gereken bir başka husus ise reputation olayıdır. reputation ı trustworthy olan bir ülke papalıkla her daim çok iyi ilişkilere sahip olur. (tabi diğer devletler ile de.) bu da sizi baskın bir ülke yapar, diğer devletler sizinle savaşmaktan kaçınır. cesaret edip size saldıran devletin ise yaşama şansı çok azdır, zira herkes sizin yanınızda savaşa girer. (tabi bunları 1.3 patch i yükleyenler için söylüyorum.) oyundaki reputation seviyeleri; (iyiden kötüye)

immaculate,
very trustworthy,
trustworthy,
very realible,
realible,
mixed,
dubious,
untrustworthy,
very untrustworthy,
deceitful,
despicable.

unutmayınız ki despicable reputation seviyesi olan bir ülkenin burnu boktan hiç bir zaman çıkmaz. bütün devletler ile düşmandır, ticaret yapamaz; limanları kuşatılmıştır.

ulan bu kadar reputation dedin durdun, bari bunu nasıl yükseltiriz onu da söyle diyecekler için hakkında ufak bir yazıyı buraya kopyalıyorum.

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.