I did an interesting discovery recently... I played BM from 2006 till 2010, quit, but started playing again yesterday. In less then 2 days, I managed to get 4 fame points, and that for a new family. Because I only played 2 days, it is very easy to track down what I did... I can place 2 fame points:
1= Gaining 10 prestige by one character
1= Gaining 20 family prestige
2 points I'm unaware of. I checked the wiki and can rule out the following: council positions, lord positions, religion, unique items, deaths, events. Actually, from all the known fame points, I only fulfill 2 of them. That means that I've done something in these past two days which makes I got 2 fame points.
To summarize what I did in those two days:
- created a family member A in the Far East
- created a second family member B in the Far East but in a different realm
- retired family member A after one day (wrong realm)
- created a third family member C in the Far East, in the same realm as member B
- created two inexperienced new characters
- participate with B in 3 battles in the same city in 3 turns (following after each other)
- received and spend 300 gold on recruitment with B
- recruited +/- 50 men with B
- recruited scouts, banners and healers
- joined a religion
- become a knight with B of a city
- joined an army
- wounded an enemy lord with character C: Ceneric Godwin, Count of Rrerat has been wounded by Sartan's Wrath (29).;
- wounded an enemy noble with character B: Rigitamos Brythonic (Knight of Rrerat, Arcachon) has been wounded by Sartan's Guard (28).
- wounded two enemy nobles with two different family members in one battle
- got B and C wounded in one battle
- got wounded in a battle, unit fights on and does not retreat and wins battle
- made scout reports
- gained your first fame point
- create a new family
I bet my money on the wounding of an enemy noble, gaining your first fame point or retiring a character after one day. The last statement could be, as you can find more new families with some fame points which retired a character after day one.
Also the idea to hide fame points in the beginning of a game makes sense: which new player is occupied with fame points? None of them, as they are all finding out how the game works. Which experienced player still remembers what he did in the beginning of his career? Also none of them. It would be even clever to hide unknown fame points in the beginning of a family career.
Any ideas on these statements?