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Civilization II Hints
Attitudes of Other Leaders and Your Reputation
When you meet with the leaders of your rival civilizations, they will always carry a certain attitude toward you. This can be seen in the top of the dialogue box during negotiations. Leaders who like you are more apt to give in to your requests or demands, just as leaders who dislike you tend to want to crush your civilization regardless of what you say. Attitudes can be improved by being nice to other civilizations, by doing such things as exchanging or giving from your knowledge, military, or treasury. Rulers with historically peaceful or war-like reputations tend to like or dislike you accordingly. Don't bother to kiss up to weak civilizations; they will usually respect your power and technology enough to stay in line. The following in a list of the attitudes possible.
In Civilization II you now must also be concerned with your reputation. A spotless reputation is one which has no black marks whatsoever. Whenever you break a treaty you receive two black marks unless you are under Fundamentalism or have the Eiffel tower in which case it is only one. If you accept an offer to help attack another civilization, you only receive one black mark for breaking the treaty and in the eyes of the civilization which made the offer you will receive no black marks. In order for a civilization to offer you a peace treaty you must have a reputation with three or fewer black marks. If you make peace with a civilization and you have seven or more black marks, they will feel very little compulsion to uphold it. In order for a civilization to offer to be your ally, you must have a reputation with two or fewer black spots.
The following scale can be used to gauge where you stand by what your foreign advisor says about your reputation.
