This is probably the best you can get.
He is not saying that they are the same thing. He is saying that when you lower your resolution scale, the image gets upscaled to your selected screen resolution with FSR.
The caravan was still more powerful than both looter parties combined though. The power of 43 looters equals 23 while the caravan's power level would be 33 if we were to assume it's every troop is a tier 3 footman.
Caravan ignored looters because they were weaker but sometimes bandits can make suicide attacks on caravans.
No, that's not the reason.
I do wonder if the AI considers them as defenders while deciding if they should siege or not.
You missed Ghulam. Also, in case you are not aware, this thread was created before the early access release.
Do you grant it before the election?
That's already how it works. According to this thread, if you have a shield on your back, it adds +10 to armor if you get hit from there.
Are you sure this is working correctly? Because I have never seen anything that valuable as loot. 0.5% is a huge chance considering that players beat dozens of tier 5 troops regularly in battles. Even with high roguery, it is very rare to find something more valuable than 3000 denars.
Agreed. I always thought current weapons were placeholders, but I suspect they might have forgotten about it by now even if they were.
My pleasure.