Max Army Size and Morale - Easy to change in scripts.txt

[Lyx]

Heh, you can already get a ridiculous number of troops from villages. All you have to do is get their loyalty up high. With 99 loyalty you can pull 25-35 or so troops out every couple days.

Slightly OT: How would you address this?

Personally, i'd prefer if the "quantity-bonus" for high loyality were lower, but that we'd get better quality earlier. Also, one could "redirect" some of the "loyality-advantage" to something else than troops - i.e. getting trade-bonusses for that village.

[Red River]

I'm content with my party size. what I want is to change the AI max army size to somethin' more appropriate with what this game was designed for...

[gwharris]

Heh, you can already get a ridiculous number of troops from villages. All you have to do is get their loyalty up high. With 99 loyalty you can pull 25-35 or so troops out every couple days.

You can do better than that.  If their loyalty changes, then the Recruit Volunteers counter resets.  So, pull the 25-35, take a hostile action like force them to give you supplies, don't take any supplies, pull *another* 25-35, repeat as much as you like.

[Erwin]

Well, there's seven guys that are going to get bored with this game soon after editing all the challenge out of it.

Count me out of that little statistic of yours, I solo most of the time. Challenge enough for you?

[Poc]

Hells. YES. Tired of losing men simply out of resting in one place.

[Llew]

Very nice. It'll be useful.


Oh, and welcome back MageLord, haven't seen you in a while. 

[Red River]

actually it's funny how in this game larger party size has a negative impact on your troops' morale. should be the opposite really. larger armies should have way better morale than small ones. comfort in numbers...

[TheMageLord]

Heh, thanks Llew

I've been lurking, I just haven't posted in a while. I had fun making some mods way back when, then I went on to other games. I still checked this occasionally though, and the .950/.951 releases intrigued me enough to draw me back in. Funnily enough, I was going to go back to modeling for kicks and realised I totally forgot how. Haha, I guess I might play with it till I remember one of these days... I did enjoy making all those swords before.

I've been enjoying .951 way way more with slight modification to these scripts, my char can finally run around with 100+ troops without horrible morale problems. Leadership bonuses really should be scaled up by default, 3 men and 7 morale just isnt worth focusing on leadership.

[Jericho]

Thanks for posting this tweak! If for no other reason than showing everyone who didn’t know this already of the awesome
customization and flexibility of this game. Truly I appreciate that.
 

[Hunterh]

As far as I am concerned, renown ought to improve morale...

[TheMageLord]

You could edit the script to make renown improve morale, it wouldnt be that hard with the source. You can get .903 source, but im not sure if .903 scripts are 100% compatible with .951 scripts since I haven't tested it. I did notice the .903 morale one is slightly different than the .951 one, but without the .951 source im not sure what the slight difference is. The troop number scripts from .903 and .951 are exactly the same.

I'm happy with having leadership give bigger morale bonuses, though. +30 per point allows plenty big enough armies for me, and makes taking leadership points more meaningful. If renown did everything, why would you even need leadership?

[Calodine]

Hmm...Is there any way of simply changing how much morale each soldier takes, instead of having to give a bonus to something else to balance it?

[RayvenQ]

Hmm...Is there any way of simply changing how much morale each soldier takes, instead of having to give a bonus to something else to balance it?

If you'd have read the OP, you'd have seen the 3rd red number (25) is how much renown is needed to gain one troop.

[Calodine]

Morale, not renown. I was asking if there was any way to lower the morale loss from having soldiers.

[TJL]

Great topic, this is what I'll need after a while... 
Btw, what is the default max. party size?