TW thanks for 1.8 just now
These updates are making it incrementally a better battle simulator and kingdom management game
And Bannerlord looks so good it is hard to go back to Warband - world, even the great mods ...
but
with all these updates sorely needed RPG - building is still apparently not a priority
"Relation" is a thing in BL, there are numbers and obviously some intention re a system.
I marry Arwa and relation increases from 1 to 7 ( and she smiles )
I marry Ladogual and relation stays at -1
I marry Svana and relation stays at 1, but with her father Godun it goes to something like 27 and he is grinning like an idiot ( but not Svana )
This is just a narrow illustration that there seems to be no working system for Relation. Relation does not matter currently.
But it is a key ingredient of a RPG feel.
We could do so many immersive things to climb a Relation network, and importantly NPCs should also seek us out to improve their lot - why not have messengers ask you to meet up with some lord ( or his agent ) in a tavern or keep or market place - for some mission, or an offer to marry into their family, or be their bodyguard ( and then later comes a counter - offer from their enemy to assassinate them ), or offer you any kind of deal ( a fief ? ) or even a present to curry favour with a rising star ......... anything. Not just the PC always soliciting from NPCs " Can I help you with a problem ? " ......... they might offer to help us, the more Relation ( and Reputation ) builds.
Relation should become a potentially more powerful lever than wealth. Especially with family / in-laws, and your liege lord.
So ....
In a great RPG BL what would you like to do with your wife ?
Apart from playing dress ups, adventuring together, making babies, setting up a castle household, hosting feasts .......
Could she ask you to bring her the head of the Sturgian general who slew her brother ?
Could she say " this castle is too provincial " we need to take / acquire that one, or work on the King so he will grant that one to us ........ Could her friends and enemies inside and outside the kingdom influence your story, lead to some The Last Duel situation etc ?
Could we have a mistress / concubine to service as well, or even more than one Wife ( Khuzait, Aserai, Sturgian - see Vlad the Great )?
Could we have a Barber to tailor companions' appearance, and a nicer female body slide to show a curvy etc figure ( not a sack of potatoes )
Could we have a little interest in " nice " undergarments for noble ladies, and a touch of skimp here and there ( the raciest outfit seems to be the short tunic ...... hot ), and a nod to the earthy and passionate life medieval people led. We're all adults ( aren't we ? ) but Bannerlord feels too ..... chaste.
( But please no cut scenes - keep everything, including weddings, in the game world space, like " real " )
Anyway, give TW some inspiration - what would you like to do with your wife ?
And Relation in general ?
These updates are making it incrementally a better battle simulator and kingdom management game
And Bannerlord looks so good it is hard to go back to Warband - world, even the great mods ...
but
with all these updates sorely needed RPG - building is still apparently not a priority
"Relation" is a thing in BL, there are numbers and obviously some intention re a system.
I marry Arwa and relation increases from 1 to 7 ( and she smiles )
I marry Ladogual and relation stays at -1
I marry Svana and relation stays at 1, but with her father Godun it goes to something like 27 and he is grinning like an idiot ( but not Svana )
This is just a narrow illustration that there seems to be no working system for Relation. Relation does not matter currently.
But it is a key ingredient of a RPG feel.
We could do so many immersive things to climb a Relation network, and importantly NPCs should also seek us out to improve their lot - why not have messengers ask you to meet up with some lord ( or his agent ) in a tavern or keep or market place - for some mission, or an offer to marry into their family, or be their bodyguard ( and then later comes a counter - offer from their enemy to assassinate them ), or offer you any kind of deal ( a fief ? ) or even a present to curry favour with a rising star ......... anything. Not just the PC always soliciting from NPCs " Can I help you with a problem ? " ......... they might offer to help us, the more Relation ( and Reputation ) builds.
Relation should become a potentially more powerful lever than wealth. Especially with family / in-laws, and your liege lord.
So ....
In a great RPG BL what would you like to do with your wife ?
Apart from playing dress ups, adventuring together, making babies, setting up a castle household, hosting feasts .......
Could she ask you to bring her the head of the Sturgian general who slew her brother ?
Could she say " this castle is too provincial " we need to take / acquire that one, or work on the King so he will grant that one to us ........ Could her friends and enemies inside and outside the kingdom influence your story, lead to some The Last Duel situation etc ?
Could we have a mistress / concubine to service as well, or even more than one Wife ( Khuzait, Aserai, Sturgian - see Vlad the Great )?
Could we have a Barber to tailor companions' appearance, and a nicer female body slide to show a curvy etc figure ( not a sack of potatoes )
Could we have a little interest in " nice " undergarments for noble ladies, and a touch of skimp here and there ( the raciest outfit seems to be the short tunic ...... hot ), and a nod to the earthy and passionate life medieval people led. We're all adults ( aren't we ? ) but Bannerlord feels too ..... chaste.
( But please no cut scenes - keep everything, including weddings, in the game world space, like " real " )
Anyway, give TW some inspiration - what would you like to do with your wife ?
And Relation in general ?
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