Recent content by professorchaos

Totally need more villages for Sturgia. It is easy to see Sturgia has the worst recruiting routes given how sparse the settlements are. More villages, more recruits, more goods, more food, better economy.

Hey great idea, I'd love this kind of ending.

froggyluv said:

and rank you with a unique title for all these attributes

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Looking forward to this part. Even a simple good/bad guy ending is better than nothing.

xdj1nn said:

I think that 1.4.1 has broken the game, it's pure bonkers tbh. I've tried playing it and I've just rage quit, in fact I'm starting to have doubts if I should keep playing, the game has been giving me more grief than fun, it's not even good for killing time anymore.

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True. I also quit playing after 1.4.1 for the same reason, the thing is just not fun anymore. Whether start a new campaign or continue one, it's just the same grinding, with some new no-brainer feature to make the campaign last longer. I just hope the devs could treat the disease not the symptom but apparently that's just too hard for them.

For the complains about being given unwanted fiefs, last time I checked there's a pattern for distributing fiefs. Typically if the king thinks you have too few fiefs, or you recently joined and everyone else has about enough fiefs, then the king will likely give you the new fief. So it would be wise to keep an eye on where your kingdom is attacking and what's your desired fief. You could either wait for other lords to siege this fief then become a vassal hoping it will be given to you, or become a vassal and siege it yourself. But if some other clan also has too few fiefs then it's not guaranteed for the player to get the new fief. Getting the desired fief as your first requires some "Timing". Then when new fiefs adjacent to your fief are taken and you haven't reached your "fief limit", you will at least get nominated.

AnandaShanti said:

The issue is being forcibly given fiefs that may be too physically far from you for you to ever get there before they're lost and

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About the physically too far case, in my experience the king likes to give new fiefs to adjacent clans, or clan that has no fiefs at all. So if it's your first fief then it's no surprise. If it's just far from your other fiefs then it's a weird issue.

In other words, if the king is distributing fiefs considering the strength of clans, then sounds about right to me. Otherwise how would you like the fiefs to be distributed? Aren't the distributed new fiefs always the ones on the front line?

One last resort: do some random staff or save and load to change the RNG before voting.

xdj1nn said:

So the game now is either cheating by smith or owning a town. Everything else is a waste of time

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I don't rely on daily income anymore, the thing is just unstable. Smithing gets boring so easily and personally I don't use it much. So for me, the best way I found is to do some good old trading and reach 100k denar. Then start to train troops, get fiefs, and lose money everyday. But the 100k will help you get through this phase. After establishing a military force, then make money by fighting big fights. Daily income is just, don't bother.

Life_Erikson said:

Mount&Blade is a crossover between a classic roleplaying game, CK2 type strategy and total war battles from ego perspective.
Whilst it didn't do any of the above great (it cannot do them all great since it does them all at once) every aspect of the game was just about
good enough that it kind of worked. This crossover made it unique and revolutionary.

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This.

It's hard to achieve all these, but once it does, it would be a game that lasts another 10 years (hopefully not).

With the traits and relationship system, I also think the devs are trying to have a honor system in the roleplaying part, but this part is sadly broken now. A well-designed honor system does not force the player to choose one path. Instead, the two (or more) paths bring different flavors to the game. Like the honor system in RDR2, different choices lead to slightly different dialogues and contents. Bannerlord honor system is more of a placeholder atm. Hope they have something better prepared.

Up everything to realistic

I have also quit for now after roughly 250hrs. At this point disappointment during gameplay has won over joy so I just stopped playing. For me, I'm waiting for:
1. Better kingdom structure, improved diplomacy system (war/peace/alliance).
2. Noble system overhaul (stronger ties between clans and kingdom/culture and their fiefs). More dynamic within a kingdom's nobles.
3. Solve the snowballing problem but also solve the lord respawn problem of the current easy-fix. This is also related to player executing lords problem.
4. Balance the kingdoms, Sturgia first.
5. Balance the campaign difficulty and pace. Presumably start with improving the npc lord's decision making, they are dumb in so many ways now.

I know this is a lot but these are all essential. I also want perks, want more functionality of castle, want passive-training, want improved smithing system, but these I can somewhat live without. The listed ones are so crucial that they either significantly impact the gaming experience, or heavily affect the emersion feels, and there's just no reason for me to continue playing after seeing everything the game has to offer now.

The way I see it, the problem is simple. There are so many things to fix that the devs have to use brutal cheap-fix to counter some of the problems, but this leads to more problems. I love this game but considering the way they are "improving" it now, I'd rather sit back and wait for couple of months until they have some real breakthroughs.

It cost me 2M to sue for peace which is more than half of my cash, and this is when I'm wining. The war just can't stop now. Great job TW for over fixing, again.

Especially the sunset ones are great. I'd like to fix the battleground time setting to sunset if possible.

Beating them increase relation with all other notables in town. Two gang leader is ok but three is more ideal. Beat them in turn could farm relation with them.
You can increase relation with normal notables in your town passively (through a perk I think?), but this and running their errands are the only ways to improve relation with gang leaders.
I normally do it when I'm smithing in one town. Smith when strength is full and fight gang when health is full.
But yeah, this system is not fully implemented and has limited importance.

Tip: To recruit noble troop, look for "Landowner" notables with "Powerful" influence in villages. They replenish noble troops a lot.

horses

I'm not sure about the idea enabling each clan to form their kingdom that so many people mention. Would it add complexity? Sure. But is it meaningful and add flavor to the game? Not necessarily. The current number of kingdoms is already enough. They are distinct, and kingdom sized warfare is possible. If you further divide it into pieces, then it would be total chaos without some proper complex diplomacy system. If you don't divide all of them, then the independent clans would make no difference and get wiped out easily. Thus, have independent clans forming more kingdoms sounds more like a mod or DLC idea to me, mainly because it contradicts the general vibe of the current game.

Sure, many strategy games have many factions fighting each other, like shogun based or totalwar etc etc. But they all have dedicated diplomacy system, which is not the case here.

Plus, legitimacy is required to establish a kingdom historically. That's why the player need a Dragon Banner from the main quest to establish a new one.