Effective ways to get reknown after v1.125

[Diavolo]

hi, those of you who have payed attention to the changes and played a bit with the new patch may have noticed the new way the AI calculates army strength. Now higher level units are a lot more worth than before. It is also made harder to gain reknown at all. Before I knew of some good "tricks" to get yourself some reknown easily; winning tournaments, going solo or nearly solo on a decent band of looters and having a small group of elite units beat bigger armies. What I have noticed has changed to v1.125 is that smaller battles give almost no reknown and that a small group of ellite soldiers is considered a much more powerful army now, which leaves tournaments as the only effective way to gain reknown. Due to the fact that I am against massive tournament farming (repetitive and feels cheesy) I am left with no effective way of getting reknown. Reknown is as we all know very important for getting a lady and land and in the beginning of the game a vasselage.

So, I ask you (who has played v1.125 a bit more than me) got any effective ways of getting reknown you want to share?

 

[DrowningFish]

I just fight battles, I've always found I have enough renown for whatever goal I might be going for. Just fight bandits, become a merc and fight lords, stuff like that.

 

[killer-blead]

Not much of a reknown income but you can ask your wife if there are any lords in your/the faction  argeuing with eachother. If you solve the fight you will get reknown.

 

[Jhnking]

He doesnt have a wife yet he said.

 

[Wheem]

I haven't noticed any renown changes from fighting battles, with sole exception to a bug that prevents renown gain for battles fought by a character that is lower than level 6. That bug can be a little frustrating if you're playing with a new character, since some of the early solo battles can actually get you quite the renown boost.

 

[Wayac]

The best way to still get large chunks of renown for me (and mind that I play on wimpy settings ) is to win when defenders sally out for a siege.  I believe now that they've fixed siege defenses, you can also get large renown numbers for defending against insane odds, but I haven't confirmed it yet.

 

[Arch]

I haven't noticed any renown changes from fighting battles, with sole exception to a bug that prevents renown gain for battles fought by a character that is lower than level 6. That bug can be a little frustrating if you're playing with a new character, since some of the early solo battles can actually get you quite the renown boost.

+1

I'm still at like 10 fricking renown..

 

[levache]

My system only handle battlesize 70 or so, so it might be impossible with 150... But with ~70 Vaegir Knights, my companions and myself, I've been able to beat 500-man Nord armies... I swear that one battle series probably got me over 100 renown.

 

[Wheem]

I haven't noticed any renown changes from fighting battles, with sole exception to a bug that prevents renown gain for battles fought by a character that is lower than level 6. That bug can be a little frustrating if you're playing with a new character, since some of the early solo battles can actually get you quite the renown boost.

+1

I'm still at like 10 fricking renown..

I should add that if any character in your party - whether it's yourself, a companion, or a generic soldier - is over level 6, you should gain renown as normal. Though, I didn't test to see what happens if all party members >= level 6 get taken out in the battle, or if you can gain renown if they're all unconscious from previous combat.

 

[Arch]

Good to know. Unfortunately, all my party members are five and under. -.-

 

[Diavolo]

with sole exception to a bug that prevents renown gain for battles fought by a character that is lower than level 6.

hmm, that explains why soloing looters in the beginning gives 0 reknown.

So now there are no "tricks" to get rediculous amounts, now its more natural and more realistic. One gets a suiteable amount of reknown for what one does, and after a while one has a lot. My character hasent gotten above level 6 yet, so this may be whats making me feel Im getting so little reknown

anyway, thaks for all the good replies.