Reputation

[MrSparkle]

My reputation is always spotless. Why? Becuase I never declare war and never committ espionge unless at war.

With my peaceful attitude to life i almost always finish the game by conquest.

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I am disrespectful to Dirt! Can you not see that I am serious?

 

[shadowdale]

Well it is no problem to have a spotless rep. all you have to do is tricking to AI to attack you.
But who cares and what does it matter??

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S.P.Q.R.

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

I must say that I am the most backstabbing SOB in the world (the civ world of course). I usually attack them right after i made the treaty. I feel better when my rep. is attrocious. When it is attrocious, you can do whatever you want because it cannot go worse.

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

Heck, most civs you don't even need to trick them and they will declare war. While sending a spy to investigate a Japanese city I noticed on it's support map that it had a unit near my city on that same island. I wandered a cavalry unit out there and stumbled into a cannon on my last movement turn (oops!)

So the Japanese, with their 5 cities (only one on this island) researching Bridge Building, decide to "sneak attack" the mighty Vikings and kill my cavalry unit. I hadn't even demanded tribute or stepped out of my city. Although they probably didn't like the fact that my spy kept sailing up and investigating this one city every few turns and I kept running a destroyer back and forth past their capital every turn (but never finishing a turn in their city radius).

Suffice it to say, the Japanese lost any city I could reach that turn (2 of 5) - and my reputation is still spotless.

I think the Japanese will be my pet civ this game. I just need to find the right city.

Anyway, it seems very easy to go to war without damaging reputation. I consider it part of the challenge of the game!


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There are some who call me...Tim

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

Naval units in their dcity radius doesn't do anything.

My best "pet civ" was the english. Heck, they even pay taxes regularly, such as every time they get over 50 bucks, they pay me half of it (of course, this could take several decades). Their only city, size 1, doesn't even have production! It's only production is taken up by a phalanx. Everytime they get to size 2, i poison them. I was even nice enough to plant trees around them to prevent the bad thing called "food" to grow. My tanks pay visits often. Too bad I can't do that thing that the computer, where you say
"You are invited to watch as awe as we demonstrate to your puny nation who's discovering Monarchy the secret of future technology 34!"

 

[SlowwHand]

More perfect illustations on why playing A.I. isn't much to beat chest over.

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It's In The Way That You Use It

 

[MadMelkor]

You are absolutly right.
The only way to play civ is multiplayer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sir_Lancelot]

I'm unsure of how the reputation works, but I play peacefully so I get a good rep anyway...

And I don't know the consequences of having a bad rep. Probably it doesn't matter as much as in Civ3.

 

[Jokemaster]

Of course it varies on a case to case basis, but in general, the less room I have to expand, the more backstabbing I get.

 

[Peaster]

In general, reputation doesn't matter. For conquest (my usual) it has only mattered once out of hundreds of games. I backstabbed AIs with abandon, including about 15-20 respawns, and probably sank way below Atrocious. Eventually, the AI would no longer trade maps with me (IIRC they would not even talk long enough for that). Even so, this did not have a big effect on the game result.

I play for landing less often, but have never suffered from having a bad rep, and don't recall ever needing a lot of AI cooperation. I do not rely much on alliances, like some other players - maybe rep matters more with some other playing styles (?). Also, I'd assume it matters more with OCC.

 

[Sir_Lancelot]

As there is no such thing as ROP and advanced trading in Civ2, good relations to other civs is less important but I do care anyway.

What I find unfair is that each AI has a spotless rep even though they have broken treaties on several occasions!

Example: Aztecs, India, Persia and Babylon are all part of a big strategic alliance. The Aztecs and Indians declare war on eachother and fight for numerous turns. I don't know if it was India or the Aztecs that attacked first, but the other allies do not come to the victim's aid. Nuclear weapons are used. Eventually the war ends, and shortly after that they are strategic allies again!

And about a hundred years later, the same happens again: Aztecs and Indians are all of a sudden at war and not allies. Babylon and Persia do not intervene this time either.

1) AI treaties seems to not be worth anything.
2) Aztec or India or the both of them should have suffered a big reputation hit, but their rep is still spotless. So it seems that reputation is not an issue between AI players. I guess it can be an issue for a human player, but I have too little Civ2 experience to know this.