I dont know its addressed or not, but i notice something.
I joined northern empire, because there are weak and i´l try to help them a bit. So, the game goes along, i fight the khuzaits back to husn fulq, battania lost a bit and western empire lost a got chunk of its territory later on. but i noticed a little castle, the last remaining from southern empire.
So i take a closer look and see little bit of troops in the garrison and some parties with under 10 troops sitting there and do nothing. Also literally nothing, no looter hunting, no troops gathering, that sort of nothing.
Would be easy to take and go further in the game but, i decided different. i searched for Rhagaea and surprise, surprise she sit in her old Town and does nothing. So i decided to give her some money and see what happend.
First of all i give her 300K Moneys and get 5(!) Points from that. Srsly... She had nothing. Zero money! She should be a little more grateful... That Old...
But ok, it is an experiment now. it´s ok.
So i watched the castle again and at some time, little activation startet. Some of the Parties goes straight to the next city and get some troopes. Funny, the ignore their own villages near them. There try to refill there garrison and so i play my game a little further and hunt some western parties.
After some time, i go back to the little caste to see progress and, there was nothing anymore. what happen there?
Also i saved, leave my actual kingdom and joined southern empire. BIG MISTAKE! The Pay almost 20k MONEY EVERY DAY AS TRIBUTE TO THE OTHER FACTIONS! 20k every day!
No Wonder there stay in that little castle and do nothing. No money means no troops, no food, no nothing. I didn search that but, i am pretty sure, there are no caravans either.
So maybe, Factions with less then, lets say, 2 castles and or towns, should cut out of the tribute system.