Hello everyone, I'm back to the game after a long time without touching it, now with beta 1.8 to test the new and promising changes. One of them was that supposedly kingdoms are now really disintegrating.
In my current game, the Western Empire fell apart. The clans began to migrate to other kingdoms. But Garios still remained, hiring mercenaries and bothering the rest of the kingdoms, so far normal.
The bizarre thing was two events that occurred in the game, which I think were driven by the AI's intention to balance the game.
The first was that rebels from Varcheg decided to ally with the western empire, only to lose the city to my kingdom immediately since the empire was at war with us. It was not a very brilliant thing to seek alliance with the weakest kingdom and also not even with their own culture
The second and more bizarre was that the Corenios clan, a former empire, decided to leave Vladia to return to the western empire, taking Zeonica with them, the empire being at war with my kingdom and Vladia at the same time. I take the city with ease. After that, Corenios decided to return to Vladia, soon after the Clan dey Folcun, a clan from Vladia, decided to leave Vladia to join the Western Empire, taking with them a city and 5 castles! To my bad luck Aserai declared war on us, forcing us to make peace with the western empire, so in this free property piñata we only got one castle and the rest certainly Vladia will conquer one by one.
I'm assuming this was caused by the AI trying to stabilize the strength of the Realms, which isn't necessarily bad. But you must do it smartly, just trying to stabilize with the kingdoms that are still in the fight. I wouldn't be surprised if when Vladia manages to recover the properties again and a new clan enters Vladia, another one will make this stupid decision.
And of course, the Vanquished Kingdoms mechanic needs to be much more energetic than it is today. Because right now I don't see how the western empire is going to disintegrate in my game and it is currently helping to give free property to anyone who is at war with it.
In my current game, the Western Empire fell apart. The clans began to migrate to other kingdoms. But Garios still remained, hiring mercenaries and bothering the rest of the kingdoms, so far normal.
The bizarre thing was two events that occurred in the game, which I think were driven by the AI's intention to balance the game.
The first was that rebels from Varcheg decided to ally with the western empire, only to lose the city to my kingdom immediately since the empire was at war with us. It was not a very brilliant thing to seek alliance with the weakest kingdom and also not even with their own culture
The second and more bizarre was that the Corenios clan, a former empire, decided to leave Vladia to return to the western empire, taking Zeonica with them, the empire being at war with my kingdom and Vladia at the same time. I take the city with ease. After that, Corenios decided to return to Vladia, soon after the Clan dey Folcun, a clan from Vladia, decided to leave Vladia to join the Western Empire, taking with them a city and 5 castles! To my bad luck Aserai declared war on us, forcing us to make peace with the western empire, so in this free property piñata we only got one castle and the rest certainly Vladia will conquer one by one.
I'm assuming this was caused by the AI trying to stabilize the strength of the Realms, which isn't necessarily bad. But you must do it smartly, just trying to stabilize with the kingdoms that are still in the fight. I wouldn't be surprised if when Vladia manages to recover the properties again and a new clan enters Vladia, another one will make this stupid decision.
And of course, the Vanquished Kingdoms mechanic needs to be much more energetic than it is today. Because right now I don't see how the western empire is going to disintegrate in my game and it is currently helping to give free property to anyone who is at war with it.