Good king / Bad king

[GreatEagle]

I have read some post that mentioned your king can be good or bad and doing herald quests can affect your villagers mood depending on the kings reputation. My question is how do I find out if my king is good or bad? I have not gotten any herald quests yet so I don't know anything about my king.

[KorenoGamer]

There are more but I dont know where they belong. "the Bearded" is one I had come up

[Capuzzi09]

Origineel geplaatst door KorenoGamer:

There are more but I dont know where they belong. "the Bearded" is one I had come up

I, being bearded myself, would consider that King a good one, without doubt... :D

Fun aside, "the Bearded" I think is rather a neutral King than anything else.
Think about it - I don't see how being bearded or not makes someone a good or a bad person, actually.

[GreatEagle]

Yes I started a new game and my new king has the title of "The Bearded" and was wondering the same thing.

[Lucasif]

I've got one called "The bloody"

[Capuzzi09]

Origineel geplaatst door Lucasif:

I've got one called "The bloody"

Probably not a good king. ;)

[Tablenack]

Origineel geplaatst door Sybrens:

Good Kings:

the Merciful
the Builder
the Beloved
the Wise
the Caring
the Fair
Neutral Kings:

the Great
the Strong
the Lion
the Lazy
the Coward
Bad Kings:

the Dangerous
the Greedy
the Warlike
the Mad
the Cruel
the Aggressor

how about the abitious?

[rhwilson1953]

Origineel geplaatst door Tablenack:

Origineel geplaatst door Sybrens:

Good Kings:

the Merciful
the Builder
the Beloved
the Wise
the Caring
the Fair
Neutral Kings:

the Great
the Strong
the Lion
the Lazy
the Coward
Bad Kings:

the Dangerous
the Greedy
the Warlike
the Mad
the Cruel
the Aggressor

how about the bloody ?

Since the Bloody will fit with Cruel and Warlike he would be more likely a bad king.

[Goldi_Toplitz]

Unless you are a vampire?

Jokes aside, I think there also is a "The Bearded" who would be a neutral king.

But Bloody is definitely a bad one, I had him before.

[Morri]

I have the Builder. I presume he's either good or neutral and he's only 36 so I guess I'm ok for a while. I am gonna fail his challenge in 5 seasons though so I hope my head will not go on the chopping block...

[Puddy]

Well so what are we supposed to do if we do get a bad king?

I have a bad one, and did my first herald quest then noticed that his opinion of me went down. I didn't notice if my villagers opinions went down also though, do they?

And so are we just not supposed to do the herald quests while we have a bad king or something.....confused.

[Morri]

Origineel geplaatst door Puddy:

Well so what are we supposed to do if we do get a bad king?

Same as you would do when you were a peasant in the middle ages and had a bad king: Nothing but pray that he dies soon. :-)

You can still do his challenges though; for all kings - good, bad or neutral - will lower their taxes if you do the herald quest. Your villagers will like you less though for sucking up to a bad king, so their mood will go down.
The right indicators on top of your map gives you the kings's opinion of you (still neutral in my case), how your taxes are affected and the % next to the smiley-face tells you how your villagers mood was affected.

But i think that's only for a season, so I guess it's not too horrible. So with a bad king you kinda have to outweigh for yourself what you find more important: lower taxes or happy villagers.

[Puddy]

Origineel geplaatst door Morri:

Origineel geplaatst door Puddy:

Well so what are we supposed to do if we do get a bad king?

Same as you would do when you were a peasant in the middle ages and had a bad king: Nothing but pray that he dies soon. :-)

You can still do his challenges though; for all kings - good, bad or neutral - will lower their taxes if you do the herald quest. Your villagers will like you less though for sucking up to a bad king, so their mood will go down.
The right indicators on top of your map gives you the kings's opinion of you (still neutral in my case), how your taxes are affected and the % next to the smiley-face tells you how your villagers mood was affected.

But i think that's only for a season, so I guess it's not too horrible. So with a bad king you kinda have to outweigh for yourself what you find more important: lower taxes or happy villagers.

Thanks for that info! :)

Kinda weird though that the king sends me a quest then gets pissy when i do it. My villagers also get pissy cause i sucked up to a bad king, even though the king liked me less for doing it. And even though he liked me less for doing it, he gave me lower taxes.

You see why i was confused lol

I guess i'll just never do his quests. I care very little about lower taxes....make an absolute fortune from selling those knives :D

[Goldi_Toplitz]

The king never likes you less when you complete a quest. Only your people like you less then.

The king WILL like you less when you accept a quest and fail it.

[Morri]

Origineel geplaatst door nl_toplitz:

The king never likes you less when you complete a quest. Only your people like you less then.

The king WILL like you less when you accept a quest and fail it.

Yes, this.

So i'm not sure what you mean with "did my first herald quest then noticed that his opinion of me went down."
Where did you see that?

[Puddy]

I've only had one herald quest and i did it (didn't fail it) I then noticed the two icons top left of the map had both gone into minus figures. I presumed one of them was the kings opinion of me, i now see that one is my taxes and one is villagers mood. I think? lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2874041241

my bad