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Mikey said:

Because there's currently no meaningful downside to going with 100% Tier 6 units in your army. If you manage all the training, there should definitely be a payoff - but the only downside (higher wages) is meaningless in most cases. I'm not saying this has to change by the way.

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There is also the downside of the extra investment of time and attention it takes to get and maintain a near max tier army.

So many players are just obsessed in general with max rank units, both in how strong they and in getting them as quickly as possible (hence complaints about xp nerfs to looters), that the value of mid ranked units is completely lost.

bad_paladin said:

It may not be much of a challenge, but it sure would be fun.

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Depends on how many of the looters have rocks...

Ransom Brokers are brokers after all, not just ransom buyers. It would make sense that you should be able to talk to them to pay soldiers' ransom in exchange for them joining your party. The available troops could be some combination randomly generated troops (including bandits and minor clan troops) and troops that have been ransomed recently. That said, the availability of these troops ought to be kind of limited in quantity, since you'd expect that since these brokers are 100% ethical, their families would be given priority on ransom buy outs, so wouldn't be available to any random lord/party leader that walks into the tavern.

We can just pretend this is also how AI lords get their respawn armies which somehow always come with a few high level troops.

At very least we should be able to rotate their model in the encyclopedia to get a better look at their loadout, though it would still be better if it just told us.

Remember the coup attempt that happened in Turkey a few years ago? That's not the kind of thing you bring up in an interview about your game.

In my experience, both in working on games and being part of other early access launches, I haven't seen anything to be concerned about so far. Would more communication or a roadmap be nice? Sure, but I don't mind that they'd rather they spend their resources (attention/budget/etc.) working on the game and with their families than working on the forums where half the topics are people complaining and accusing them of being liars or money grubbers.

We've seen more individual updates in just over a month of early access than many early access games see in over a year. The way the forums are now, you'd think they hadn't released any updates since launch.

Teslanbenz said:

Feature complete? Can i get trait please? Some perks that work? Maybe a handful of 5 minute repetative quest. Im tired of seeing the same five lines of dialog. Pretty sure ive rescued the locals duaghter 100 times. She refuses to stop running away. As far as i can see ONE feature is complete. Combat.

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I didn't say this game was feature complete, just that even when a game is feature complete, it's nowhere near done. There is also a difference between unimplemented perks and a missing character perk system, or a low variety of repeatable quests and not having any repeatable quests at all, or a missing faction and a faction that is undertuned.

But hey, **** me for trying to keep things positive, right?

Zydrate said:

Main quest lmfao pahahaha aaaaaah good one, good one.

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I'm sure I'll complete once or twice... eventually.

The Sign of 33 said:

And lots of people here forget (or weren't there when) we have been promised a near complete EA. Fanboys don't seem to understand the source of the negative feedback. They still carry the same tune nevertheless, "It's EA! ehehehehe". Thank you, we know.

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Link? IIRC, the EA was released sooner than they would have liked (in terms of completeness) due to events in Turkey (and globally) setting back their production setting.

Plus "near complete" can mean different things to different people. It's not like there is no MP available, or the main quest is missing from the SP campaign. Just because a game is feature complete doesn't mean it still doesn't have a lot of work left to be done on it.

COOMER said:

Thanks for reminding us it's Early Access, I nearly forgot.

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A lot of people seem to forget this fact when they post here.

Do lords change their opinion on different policies depending if they benefit from them or not? I feel like they should.

I just mean the saplings that are barely taller than a mounted horseman whose trunk is only a few centimeters thick, not the full grown trees.

durbal said:

Sturgians are Kievan Rus, not Scandinavians. The Druzhinik are fine.

And absolutely do not touch the brigand/horse raider branch. They are unique, fun to use, and one of the few strengths of the Sturgian troop lines.

Aserai are not Arab-based, they're North African-based. Their troops are fine.

It seems like you think there's a problem with having a lot of noble lines being heavy cavalry and are trying to shoehorn a solution to it. I don't think there's a problem at all and your proposed solutions would actually create one.

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Kievan Rus has was founded by scandinavian conquers/settlers that mixed with local slavs and mixed with their culture over time. It would make sense that while they have adopted Druzhinik into their regular army, their leaders would still prefer the nordic style of fighting, at least for now.

Still, if you like brigand line, then the tier 5 druzhiniks don't have to replace them. Having a noble huskarl line makes having 2 tier 5 shield infantry types kinda redundant anyways.

The first 8 words of the dev blog section describing the Aserai are: "The Aserai are based on the Arab tribes"

You don't think 4 out of 6 of the tier 6 troop lines leading to functionally the same unit is kinda boring and makes the factions a bit too similar?

Saris said:

1. is shown
2. can be seen a the central town.
3. would be the most direct path.
4. yes should be implemented.

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1. When you mouse over the village, there is no button to see what all villages produces at once that I know of
2. When you mouse over the town/castle, there is no button to see settlement links at once that I know of
3. Which town a village sends it's villagers to isn't always obvious just from looking at the map

It's not that this information isn't available from the world map, it's that there no convenient way to see all of it at a glance.