Quick Questions/Quick Answers (Unofficial 'Ask Questions Here' Q&A Thread)

[Caba`drin]

Im guessing you guys combined all the options into "mod options" now, but my question is, where did the option go where you can set "enable terrain advantage in battle" or something.

In the mod options screen. Just scroll down.

How can I make "Battle size" larger, over 150?

i don't think you can get a higher battlesize than 150, but if you could, it would be very laggy

You get the battlesizer mod from the forge.  It is run external to the game and can set your fights up to a size of 1000 people (very laggy unless you have a high end computer).  If I remember right you also need to set that same number in the Floris mod options once using the battlesizer mod.

You can find it here in the Caravanserai: Warband Battle Size Changer

What affects lords armies size? Is it scaled to my level, renown or they increase independent?

Your level, yes. And your campaign difficulty setting. But also their leadership skill (set in the troops file) and their renown (set at game start, and only increased by winning tournaments, being marshal and hosting feasts). Also, they get a bump if they are marshal or king. And a bump for holding towns/castles. And the total number of fiefs determines how much coin they have to upgrade their troops or recruit more rapidly when they lose a battle.

Is it possible to recruit manhunters some other why then recrutingthem from captured after battle?

Nope.

1 more about lords returning from exile in mod options. With this disabled exiled lords will dissapear forever or they just won't come to me asking for becoming my vasals?

With it disabled, it will be like native--once a lord makes the full round of kingdoms they will be exiled from Calradia and disappear forever.

And whats the best way to make a town gain prosperity?

The other thing you can do is lower taxes via your diplomacy staff members if the town is under your control.

[ruralvirginian]

And whats the best way to make a town gain prosperity?

The other thing you can do is lower taxes via your diplomacy staff members if the town is under your control.

WOW!  I hadn't considered that!  Talk about insider trading!  You lower taxes on the city which decreases direct revenues but you gain popularity with the citizens and increase the city's prosperity.  You then collect the lost revenues from the increased rents of your property.  How subtly two-faced.

[Muglos]

Sometimes in the party screen (to the left where it shows your skills and your companions) it doesn't show all the skills that my companions are contributing to the group. This happens even when none of them are wounded either.

Example: Lezalit has the highest training level in my entire group (he starts with 4), yet that skill isn't showing up in the party menu. It just shows his name and then nothing below it. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

[Caba`drin]

Trainer is not a party skill. It is an individual skill that just happens to get applied to the party, but each individual troop that has it uses their skill.

[Muglos]

Great.  Thanks for the clearing that up for me. It was gnawing at me for a while now.  It was never a serious issue for me because the trainer was still doing his job so I mostly disregarded it.

[lfish]

When companions join my party their title always changes to 'palantinus'. so for instance, I'll hire 'Hero Nadia' but once she joins my party she's Palantinus Nadia.  Is this supposed to happen or am I getting a bug?

Also, I really like the Heraldic Mail-and-plate from Narf's transitional armor.  I see mercenaries wearing it but haven't seen it for sale anywhere in 120 in game days, is it for sale or is it flagged as mercenary equipment that doesn't get sold?

[Caba`drin]

When companions join my party their title always changes to 'palantinus'. so for instance, I'll hire 'Hero Nadia' but once she joins my party she's Palantinus Nadia.  Is this supposed to happen or am I getting a bug?

Not a bug. This is part of the Latin-based title extensions. You should find an explanation in the Notes window under the Game Concepts tab.

Also, I really like the Heraldic Mail-and-plate from Narf's transitional armor.  I see mercenaries wearing it but haven't seen it for sale anywhere in 120 in game days, is it for sale or is it flagged as mercenary equipment that doesn't get sold?

It looks like it won't be available to be sold because it is marked as "player_faction"...and the town merchants only stock goods with factions matching the faction their town began the game with, and since no towns began the game as "player faction", none will ever stock it. (I am unsure if this was an intentional design choice or not.)

You can change this by loading up Morgh's Editor and the items editor there. Find the armors starting with "ar_pla_t2_tabard_a" those are all the player faction armors. You can add another faction to their list and it will be stocked normally in towns that began the game as the faction you select. More directly, you could enable cheat/debug mode and in the cheat menu in your camp menu use the "find and item" cheat and buy it directly from there.

[Duh]

Arent merc items in the store for player kingdom towns? I think that was how monn set it up.

[Caba`drin]

Arent merc items in the store for player kingdom towns? I think that was how monn set it up.

No, the merchant scripts check slot_center_original_faction not the center's current faction.

[GiggleGoose]

Hello,

I just started playing the new Floris release and I noticed that the banner that I usually pick is not around anymore.  I am curious as to whether or not I can get it somehow.  It was an original banner in vanilla Warband.  It is a sort of white flame over a white semi circle on a blue field. 

Great mod by the way!

[Caba`drin]

I just started playing the new Floris release and I noticed that the banner that I usually pick is not around anymore.  I am curious as to whether or not I can get it somehow.  It was an original banner in vanilla Warband.  It is a sort of white flame over a white semi circle on a blue field. 

You'll need an image editor that can read .dds files (like The GIMP, or Photoshop). Then you'll find the banner files with obvious names in the \Textures\ folder. Similarly for Native. A little copy-paste over one you don't like and you can bring your preferred banner back.

[voncken]

and some new questions i like to ask:

-when you enter notes and you go to one of your lords(companions who are made lord) and they don't show their banner behind them. is their already a solution to that(if possible savegame compatible)

-i possibly asked this a while ago already, but: the clothing issue with lord companions. they ange there cloths in weird sort of dresses......?!@*%# is there a solution???????(savegame compatible pls)

-is it possible to get a castle without be at war with the faction that holds it? i have good relations with the swadians, but they hold a castle that is very strategically located and i would like to have it(as in'giving it to one of my companion vassals')

-where is Lezalit? i try to find him, but i can't. does anybody know where he is?

-who are the new companions? i know Edwyn and Floris, but what about the rest?

[Windyplains]

-where is Lezalit? i try to find him, but i can't. does anybody know where he is?

He is definitely still in the game.  They move their location around every 3 days and it is random.

-who are the new companions? i know Edwyn and Floris, but what about the rest?

Nadia, Odval, Ghazwan and Sajjad.

[krnja21]

So can someone explain the concept of barracks please? If i understood correctly they should improve my troop training? Because when i order my war advisor to train troops they only get to tier 3, same as without barracks, and at the same pace. Am i missing something? 

[GiggleGoose]

I just started playing the new Floris release and I noticed that the banner that I usually pick is not around anymore.  I am curious as to whether or not I can get it somehow.  It was an original banner in vanilla Warband.  It is a sort of white flame over a white semi circle on a blue field. 

You'll need an image editor that can read .dds files (like The GIMP, or Photoshop). Then you'll find the banner files with obvious names in the \Textures\ folder. Similarly for Native. A little copy-paste over one you don't like and you can bring your preferred banner back.

Alright.  I did all of this and I actually got my banner back sort of.  The problem is that there appears to be a slight size difference between the Floris banners and the vanilla ones.  Therefore, when I add in my own banner, it appears slightly off center and incorporates some of the banner next to it.  I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix this error.