Acording to the games's manual:

[code]Favor Points

After each battle, the gods will award the Demigods with favor points. Favor points help your Demigod to ascend to Godhood and act as a currency to acquire persistent items.

Players win favor points for the following actions:

•  Dying the least number of times

•  Spending the most gold on Citadel upgrades

•  Killing the most enemy Demigods

•  Killing the most enemy units

•  Doing the most total damage

•  Capturing the most fags

•  Assisting the most in killing other Demigods[/code]

(All the remaining text is on the online subsection of the game)

I see the favor I get after each battle, usually averaging 100. However I still am having questions regarding these subjects:

If I go to the achievements menu, I see a value for each achievement. Are these values favor points?

The reason I am asking this is because at the top of his menu is a number that usually (see below) was the sum of all the achievements I had made (but didn't consider the points I had already acquired during online play).

As of now my favor points are negative. I did unlock a favor item. Does using it waste favor points each time I use it?

TL;DR?

Are the points acquired through achievements (on online) the same we get at the end of each match?

Do favor points get used each time you use a favor item (after being unlocked)?