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>>6219163
Also forgot to mention the only local nearby quest is in Kutna Hora/Kutenberg and it's about killing some Knockers in the mines or something, but i tired it and I was a bit too underpowered and didn't have enough tools with me to go through it.
I also killed a Raubritter but that was near Dresden i believe.

Sounds good. How can i play this?

Thanks for reminding me to watch a let's play of this
>check google
>find one from a guy in germany
>opens video with "there are only two genders"
nice, this is gonna be good

>>6219168
it's on Steam and GOG so, you can try there, or just pirate it and use DOSbox I guess.

>>6219163
You probably ran off from the guards during night, thats why your rep was lowered.
I created a thread about it here half a year ago but stopped playing at a point where I travelled from town to town and killed raubritters around. I had a problem with finding healing potion formula.
Those were my guys at the start, I probably shouldn't have used that starting equipment trick, party went overpowered very quickly.

>>6219463
>You probably ran off from the guards during night, thats why your rep was lowered.
Nah, I didn't. I avoided them by sticking to the side-streets and only going on docks and the grove. I still don't get why my local reputation keeps changing. It's so weird.
>but stopped playing at a point where I travelled from town to town and killed raubritters around
How can I find Raubritters more easily? I found one by accident near Dresden, is there an easier way to find them other than walking into every castle I see?

>>6219926
>Nah, I didn't. I avoided them by sticking to the side-streets and only going on docks and the grove.
Sometimes I still encounter guards even on this path. Strange, what do you do during the day then? Maybe you rest at that low-life quarter?
On the market merchants/bankers can give you a quest to kill raubritters that "terrorize" their town, you can get reward from multiple sources for one raubritter if you're lucky.

>be medieval czech
>go out nights with the boys for a spot of fun and supplementary income
>some asshole kills you
>complains nobody in town likes him

>>6219926
Also waking up merchants for making a purchase at night can lover your rep iirc.

>>6219163

Being rejected at the townhall will lower your reputation as will getting caught trying to sneak out of town. There's some other odds and ends I can't remember.

Quests are randomly generated, if you want to power game and make easy cash just keep reloading until someone hands you a Raubritter quest and then hit up all the other quest givers (Townhall, Hanse, Medici, etc) to get a contract for the same Raubritter, make sure it's the same guy though.

Kill said Raubritter and then reap the rewards.

>>6219986
>Sometimes I still encounter guards even on this path. Strange, what do you do during the day then?
I sell the equipment of the dead bandits then go to the Churches to learn formulas and either get rejected or accepted, or sometimes I just skip the day entirely
>Maybe you rest at that low-life quarter?
No, I rest at the grove.
>On the market merchants/bankers can give you a quest to kill raubritters that "terrorize" their town, you can get reward from multiple sources for one raubritter if you're lucky.
Aha, I always made the mistake of going to the political centre and asking there. I'll go the banks instead, got it.

>>6220017
>Also waking up merchants for making a purchase at night can lover your rep iirc.
I don't do that.

>>6220000
Hey, they attacked me first. And one of my characters has a Czech name, so it's not like they were random foreigners

>>6220741
>Being rejected at the townhall will lower your reputation
Oh shit, I think I did that before, that could also be why. Although I only did that once, but my reputation still kept acting strange even afterwards.
>Quests are randomly generated, if you want to power game and make easy cash just keep reloading until someone hands you a Raubritter quest and then hit up all the other quest givers (Townhall, Hanse, Medici, etc) to get a contract for the same Raubritter, make sure it's the same guy though.
Got it, although I'll admit that I rarely see any quests other than the Knocker quest in the Town Hall, maybe I am not looking in the right place?

>>6221058
>go to the Churches to learn formulas
What? I thought you can learn about new saints here.

Do you guys just reload if merchant give you some shitty quest to get heirloom from other side of the map?

>>6221072
Sorry I meant the university, it's located in the same district as the churches, so I usually generalize.
But yeah also to learn Saints as well.

>>6221074
Is it a relic? Because that might be worth it.

>>6221083
I got a "silver mace", pretty sure it's a usual mace, but I almost died in that cave, dwarf made it basically into a gas chamber.

>>6221084
Yeah, it's better to reload then.

I fucking hate the fonts used in this game. I love fraktur writing, but it's very difficult to read in pixelated form. I have to take few steps away from the monitor to make any sense of the text even if playing in original resolution dosbox screen. Some of the later Ultima games had similar thing and it was just as bad.

>>6221291
You can tweak scaling in gog version.

>>6221058

You may want to leave Prague for a new location, I think area has at least a slight influence on what the game hands you. If you do decide to leave I recommend going to Nurnberg as they have the best overall quality for gear.

Also keep in mind universities charge a lot for services. I recall whatever the local services offer overlaps with what the university of that city offers as well. It can be a fast way to learn all of a town's saints though.

>>6223176
Alright, gotcha. I'll leave Prague and go to Nuremberg then.

Is there a way to find that Sorceress from the intro?

>>6219246
They took it down from GOG, unfortunately.

>>6225835
why

>>6225895
A different publisher purchased the rights to the game recently and it seems that they only sell games on Steam. Maybe they'll put it back on GOG eventually if people complain enough.

>>6226083
>A different publisher purchased the rights to the game
Remake incoming perhaps?

I will try to help with a couple of these

>I defeat at least six bandiits every night in Prague (my starting area) and my local reputatioon has stayed between 68-72, sometimes going down for no reason.
local rep can go up to 99 from just killing bandits but the chances of getting rep gets very low past the point you are at. You get guaranteed 10 or 15 local rep points (and 15 points of actual fame) for completing a quest.

>>6221058
>Aha, I always made the mistake of going to the political centre and asking there. I'll go the banks instead, got it.
Only go to the palace if you can invoke a saint to guarantee and audience. If you fail there your local rep does get hit. If you succeed in a quest given by the palace though, you get 30 to 50 florins.

>Got it, although I'll admit that I rarely see any quests other than the Knocker quest in the Town Hall, maybe I am not looking in the right place?
That sounds like the rumor for a mine, like if you ask for rumors in the main square or the inn. The mines are not the same kind of quest as the ones the palace or banks give. The mines are a huge dungeon crawl and have a lot of difficult skill checks, too.

>learn formulas
Make sure to go to the city's alchemist and trade for a random formula every couple of days. There is a bug going on and you can't buy most of the formulas. This is the only way to get em

>Is there a way to find that Sorceress from the intro?
I believe she is supposed to be the lady in the castle manor south of Magdeburg

>>6220000
Czeched

>>6226963
>I believe she is supposed to be the lady in the castle manor south of Magdeburg
But can you give hints about it in-game or it's purely finding her by blind luck?

Bump

>>6227265
>But can you give hints about it in-game or it's purely finding her by blind luck?
I don't know exactly what you mean by this desu

>>6227265
Unlike a lot of other places her castle is always in the spot, it's somewhere around Magdeburg.

>>6228268
I mean getting rumours about her in taverns or hints from some in-game character.
>>6228301
I understand.

>>6220000

>>6228304
I don't think there's ever any mention of her. There are a couple other unique locations, the devil's bridge near Nurnberg and the alpine cave near Salzburg