I think the balance of faction quests is totally screwed. I was playing super casually and accepted a faction quest for “clearing gatherers hut”. thought nothing of it. Finished it and everything went insanely downhill.
The faction dropped from 88 to below 60 (even though they gave me this quest).
the city involving dropped from friendly to threatening.
The other cities dropped from very friendly/allied to neutral/friendly (2 whole levels).
Really? You need like 10-20 quests to build up so much relation and this is dropped with a single action?
Such things really need a rebalance!
.