Same, but yeah it doesn't seem to have impacted overall results considering i landed right in the middle of the general snowball scores (thankfully, not sure my computer was too happy about running bannerlord for 10 hours).This is something I have been always curious about... I usually use x20 time speed multiply but it looks like not much changed in your test.
I know that I sound like a broken record but I really do think it has to do with clan defection. Once it starts the snowballing cant be stopped, the factions who recruit the most clans are always the snowballed factions (obviously lol).It is weird because there are some great campaigns where snowballing is really low, while other campaigns where snowballing is much worse than ever, strange...
1.57 | Test 1 10 years | Test 1 20 years | 20 yr Strength | Original Clans | Recruited Clans | Rebel Clans | Mercenaries | Total Noble Clans | Total Clans w/ MERCs |
Aserai | 20 | 23 | 7171 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
Battania | 33 | 48 | 8891 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Khuzait | 34 | 38 | 4993 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Northern | 26 | 13 | 5011 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
Southern | 15 | 13 | 4029 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
Western | 10 | 7 | 2849 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
Sturgia | 21 | 20 | 4894 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Vlandia | 14 | 11 | 4116 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Snowball score | 21 | 47 |
1.57 | Test 2 20 yrs | 20 yr Strength | Original Clans | Recruited Clans | Rebel Clans | Mercenaries | Total Noble Clans | Total Clans w/ MERCs |
Aserai | 23 | 7044 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
Battania | 46 | 10012 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
Khuzait | 44 | 10046 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
Northern | 7 | 3887 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Southern | 12 | 3406 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 15 |
Western | 23 | 6077 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
Sturgia | 19 | 7046 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Vlandia | 0 | 604 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Snowball score | 62 |
Look at the clan counts in these two tests its pretty clear to me that when clans are balanced snowballing is in an acceptable range (test 1), but once defections start to take place the snowballing begins (test 2). Would be great if others could start counting clans.
@mexxico it does seem your changes to make rebel clans not join the strongest worked well (we see no rebel clans in the snowballed factions). Of course, we see that recruited noble clans is the opposite and they join the snowballed faction. Also seems like the mercenary debt issue is what truly killed Vlandia in Test 2 (I know 1.5.8 will fix).
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