User Manual

Additionally, you should try to fulfil a mission for the town of your choice once in a while. The
town hall’s notice board will inform you about all the missions available. Make sure you
complete all the missions you engage in. Once you are known to be unreliable, you can forget
about further missions for some time. Your standing also suffers.
By the way: The recognition you acquired is easily lost – disastrous festivals, high interest rates,
pulled down businesses, delinquencies (instigation of burglary for instance) or failed bribery –
those who are stingy at the wrong time will be punished.
The Charismatic Trader
Well, it’s not quite true that you cannot ‘cheat’ at all when it comes to gaining recognition. You
have the possibility of adjusting the difficulty level to make life easier for you. (see chapter 6)
A Good Reputation
No matter what you do or who you deal with – nothing remains unnoticed. The slightest faux pas
will be remembered by the competition or at least by the underworld, even harmless feasts
among thieves or pirates. The word is quickly spread; the world of the Hanseatic League is small
after all.
Reliability
Make sure you are regarded as reliable. Always fulfil your missions conscientiously, because if
you don’t, further missions will soon be refused. And if you repeatedly find no one to join your
public convoys, this could be a consequence of your bad reputation – perhaps because you’ve
abandoned your last convoy or been attacked by pirates. Disasters like that get around quickly.
Illegal actions or piracy also impair your reliability – provided that you have been caught, of
course.
Your Public Reputation
Apart from your reliability, which you cannot really check anywhere, you also enjoy a public
reputation by which you are permanently judged throughout the Hanseatic League. Your
reputation is always named in one breath along with your name and represents the overall
nature of your previous actions. If you are rather reserved and careful, you might be evaluated
as inexperienced, nice, capable, experienced, successful, clever, sophisticated, or simply as
unbelievable. If, however, you are a boisterous old warhorse who hardly ever hesitates, you
could be considered as inexperienced, impetuous, brave, daring, courageous, aggressive,
ruthless or even dangerous.
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