Reputation

[Locklave]

Negative allows you to easily recruit bandits/viking/random pricks of the world. What does positive reputation do? Why should I be a nice guy?

[Tuidjy]

If by reputation you mean honor, it makes the benevolent and good-natured lords like you. A lot. So much that once they join your kingdom, they will remain absolutely loyal even if you centralize power in your hands, and give fiefs to people they, personally, do not like.

On the other hand, if you are a jerk, the debauched and quarrelsome lords may like you more, but they are a pain in the ass to work with, so it's less of a benefit.

This is in Native. If you are talking about VC, I do not know, I'm waiting for people to stop complaining about things that need to be fixed yesterday.

[TopGun❂]

Originally posted by Tuidjy:

If by reputation you mean honor, it makes the benevolent and good-natured lords like you. A lot. So much that once they join your kingdom, they will remain absolutely loyal even if you centralize power in your hands, and give fiefs to people they, personally, do not like.

On the other hand, if you are a jerk, the debauched and quarrelsome lords may like you more, but they are a pain in the ass to work with, so it's less of a benefit.

This is in Native. If you are talking about VC, I do not know, I'm waiting for people to stop complaining about things that need to be fixed yesterday.

So if you have high honor, lords will not get upset when you reward one of their rivals a fief and not them?

[Tuidjy]

If you have really high honor, honorable lords will like you so much, that although they will get upset, their relation to you will not visibly take a hit. I.e. their relation to you will be displayed as 100 (devoted) but will be in reality above 100, and when they get upset, it will be still displayed as 100.

In general, doing honorable things is a really easy way to increase your relations with honorable lords. It's much easier to run a kingdom with 10 'honorable' (benevolent or good-nature) lords than with 10 'normal' (martial or cunning) ones. Running a kingdom with 10 'dishonorable' (debauched or quarrelsome) lords is a pain in the neck, because they hate everyone.

[Locklave]

Originally posted by Tuidjy:

If you have really high honor, honorable lords will like you so much, that although they will get upset, their relation to you will not visibly take a hit. I.e. their relation to you will be displayed as 100 (devoted) but will be in reality above 100, and when they get upset, it will be still displayed as 100.

In general, doing honorable things is a really easy way to increase your relations with honorable lords. It's much easier to run a kingdom with 10 'honorable' (benevolent or good-nature) lords than with 10 'normal' (martial or cunning) ones. Running a kingdom with 10 'dishonorable' (debauched or quarrelsome) lords is a pain in the neck, because they hate everyone.

Thank you for these details. This really makes being honorable a good long term plan.

The bandits of the world will go back to being my prey and no longer be my armies.