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Wow, this post took a while to compile and then write out! I agree with most of this. Some of these things are unlikely to be implemented in game, but I understand why it's included in this post.

WCGamer said:

The mechanics of companions is not too bad. It would be nice to increase how many you can have if you have to use them for caravans as well. Or don't have the caravan leaders count towards companion limit in your party.

Edit: they take much too long to level up right now

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Those are two very good alternatives to the system the way it is right now...

and yes, they take way too long to level up at the moment. It looks like the beta is going to try and work on this by starting them out with worse skills so they will start to level more frequently, even if they start out weaker.

I started out leaving them in my party too. I had no idea what caravans did, how they worked, and was worried about the inconsistent gold that I had read about. Now that I have my own kingdom, the early parts of fighting other kingdoms is very lopsided, so the money allows me to barter for peace. It might take me 40k to buy peace, but with my caravans, the "swimming in gold" part is very useful.

Just created a thread about this very issue.

I create caravans with them. Caravans have allowed me financial security. As it stands right now, I would not have companions do anything other than lead a caravan. My caravans (I have 6 in my most recent playthrough) are making me between 2000 gold (on a **** day) and 5000 gold (on a great day). Usually I'm making 3000-3750 per day. They are ALWAYS profitable after they have been up and running for a couple weeks, so you don't need to worry about that.

I wish they would change it so you don't require a companion for a caravan. I do not see any reason to require them, and it breaks the game design of them being part of your clan.

This is an interesting idea. Not sure how much of this would get implemented, but I'd like to see companions get an overhaul. They are an iconic part of M&B1 and should be for M&B2 as well. This could help make it a little different from the original game.

Len12 said:

one fraction becoming too strong and conquering the whole map and ending the game.

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Ok, yes the steamrolling. I'm not sure whether that is a bug or just a design flaw, but either way it's semantics picking between the two. It's definitely the biggest issue they need to fix.

Len12 said:

O its an alpha release with speed of the game increased by 5, countless gamebreaking bugs, not working quests and missing content. making the game getting finished too fast and leaving a feeling of "seen that, done that" after a week after playing it.

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I would say it's well beyond an alpha. This is definitely in beta realm. What gamebreaking bugs are you referring to? I've had minor bugs and seen missing content, but nothing that prevented me from continuing to move forward in the game.

I will agree that there is more content that's needing to be added, since it borrows heavily from warband, but you think that it only has a weeks worth of playtime? I think that's being a bit pessimistic. I think it's at least on par with warband right now, and with the altered approaches to combat, economy, tournaments, kingdom building, sieges, and everything else, I see it as having a lot more potential.