>>6192316I'm working off of Homer's original schema for this, see below:
"...Some of you will recall that I said you could earn the Favored trait in the future, and others will remember that you could potentially upgrade it to Chosen if taken early enough... The gods, for distinctly different reasons than mortals, love being famous. They all want cities named after them, battles to be won in their name, and other great deeds to be dedicated to them and them alone. In your position as a minor noble about to go to war, the best way to do this is by dedicating the arms of slain heroes to the name of the god/goddess you want to patronize you. Other great deeds might qualify for a dedication, and I will tell you after the fact if they do. If you do this enough, and do it the right way, you can "earn" the patronage of these deities eventually. It will take some time for any of them.
In general, the more famous and powerful the deity is, the more "dedication points" (a hidden stat I track) it will take to earn (and keep, if you ever earn it) their favor. This offering is quite pathetic so don't expect a lot from it, but I wanted to introduce this sooner rather than later."
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So the way I am thinking about this:
1) divine or unique weapons/armor can be "dedicated" to a god/goddess - literally evaporated for pure divine favor from that deity. This would be the ritual destruction piece that Homer mentioned. The issue is that Hyperenor's bronze is not divine or unique (for dedication), he's such a low-ranking noble that Hippomedon wouldn't get any "divine credit" for killing him (Hippomedon is literally already too famous for anyone to be impressed by him doing it), and finally, Hippomedon didn't even really kill Hyperenor directly - he convinced some commoners to do it.
2) Obviously the bronze is still very valuable so if you were to gift it to a temple of Apollo or something, that would surely bring you favor with the priests there, even if Apollo wouldn't care that much.
>an enemy killing hippo and sacrificing Aristomachides armor gain favor?Well, Hippomedon is very famous in Hellas, has unique armor and now a divine kopis, so killing him and dedicating these things would definitely be "convertable" to divine favor. Hippomedon is actually so famous, that relatively few Hellenes are "worth something" for him to kill, if that makes any sense.
>what gains divine favor? Nikon's poetry?It's all relative to the person, the god, and the act. Nikandros specifically targeted a minor goddess with a domain that he can "exploit" through relatively minor successes in his journey and had made it exactly half-way to Nike's favor at the time of his
well, you knowGaining Zeus' favor, by comparison, is proportionally much more difficult, especially when you're not closely related to him.
One final comment:
Players should already be getting the sense that divine favor works a bit differently in SATQ vs TWQ 
