What does honor do?A: Honor influences some random events, ie. there are some very bad things that happen only to evil players, and some good things that happen only to players with high honor. Moreover, honor affects morale in battle, so being evil will make your admirals more likely to retreat after taking damage.What about council honor?A: Council honor is as important as your personal honor. For the purpose of calculating morale and events probability, an average of the two values is taken.How do I raise my honor?A: In short, you cannot. This is to prevent abuse. Honor does, however, raise automatically every day by 1 point, or 2 points if you have Diplomacy CM greater than 0. There is also a chance to have your honor raised significally by random events. What you can do about honor, is keep it from going down, which is explained in the next answer.How do I keep my honor from dropping?There are several things to remember. First of all, Diplomacy CM will lower all your honor losses by a given amount, up to 50% of the total loss. Losses for some actions like blockading a player half of your power can cost you over 20 base points, so Diplomacy CM bonus is significat. Note that for council honor calculations, speaker's Diplomacy CM is used. Therefore, Bosalian speakers are best for PR... Then, you have to avoid actions that are considered evil. Such actions are:- blockading people while not at war, especially if you are pacted/allied with the victim - blockading (while not at war) or declaring wars on people/councils with power lower than yours, especially much lower... - declaring wars on people/councils you were previously pacted with - breaking pacts with people/councils if you were previously allied with - using harmful special operations, especially if you are pacted/allied with the victim - bribing the Empire, requesting boons or aid, submitting to Empire's demands (all minimal, usually 1 point loss) Honor differences will increase or decrease the loss. This means that if you have much higher honor than the victim, you can do evil things to him/her and get away with it. Yes, be nice to other nice players, but give the evil bastards what they deserve! :) Note: blockading/sieging while at war is perfectly justified and will not cost any honor regardless of power/honor differences. So I got 0 honor. I am Evil! Am I screwed?Many players don't care. They have to suffer from the reduced morale and evil events, but they get an obvious advantage of being able to attack anyone they can to grab good planets and keep their opponents low. This advantage is actually better than anything else, but the significance of honor gives a slight bonus for being nice. |
| Value | Honor |
|---|---|
| 41-59 | Average Citizen |
| 36-40 | Unreliable |
| 31-35 | Untrustworthy |
| 26-30 | Undependable |
| 21-25 | Back Stabber |
| 16-20 | Black Hearted |
| 11-15 | Sadistic |
| 6-10 | Seed of Corruption |
| 0-5 | Evil |