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Earth Dragon said:

AKA more player complaints about wanting the AI to weaken their companies and donate troops to defend while retaining all of yours and getting all the glory during the battle.

It should not be up to the AI to do all the dirty work and the player just be excessively streamlined to the prominent ruler in the land.

I don’t see these posts as “constructive” at all, as you aren’t truly laying out what give and take there is. Plenty of players use mods that allow you to claim the castle/town if you are leading the army that takes it, yet NONE of them are demanding that AI lords have the ability to press gang your party into their army like you can to all your peers become a part of that mod. So these posts paint themselves as wanting freedom, but at the end of the day, they are just demanding more favoritism whether deliberate or not

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I don't see your post as constructive at all because you struggle so badly with reading.

I'm not asking for special privileges, to be exempted from anything (despite it being voluntary in the first place, yet I'm still not allowed to tell my men "no") or to play some strange game of "weakening the AI" despite that AI being my own teammates, meaning that doing so is irrelevant in the first place to the outcome of the game. I'm asking to be able to tell MY subordinates what to do as the LEADER of their clan and the EMPLOYER and oath-holder of them and all the soldiers they have under their command. MY liege asks me for things like for an amount of men or money to be contributed, so I supply them as is required of the social contract, but I am powerless to do the same with the people who I am supposed to be in full control over? That's clearly a break in the entire basis of the game's driving mechanic of feudalism.

They, being my commanders, should not at random choose who goes into the garrison from my armies that I built up over time to have a certain makeup and value certain troop types. Even if they still are forced to, they definitely should never be donating rank 6 noble troops to a position that in every other instance in the game is filled with 90% levies, converted bandits and a small professional core of rank 3-4 footmen. It goes completely against the fantasy of the game to A.) have zero control over my own clan's affairs suddenly, B.) for noblemen, the most influential, powerful and useful soldiers to be forced into a duty both they and I would clearly find beneath them which would cause dissatisfaction if not defection realistically, and C.) to be able to tell everyone exactly what to do 100% of the time except for suddenly this one time when i'm standing right next to them at a battle we just won together and they make an irreversible decision that I have no way of impacting.

I asked for constructive criticism. This means slow down, read the post, think about it and don't tell me what you think about other posts you've (attempted to?) read on here that have nothing to do with what i'm saying.

Go waste your time somewhere else.

One issue with your statement... Saying "again" implies they were ever good in the first place. Spears have never been good in game, despite one verified dueling manual of the late medieval era placing only the dagger and buckler combination higher than the pike for 1v1 duels. In England i believe it was a sheriff told the king to recommend the quarterstaff as the defensive option against brigands, as its useful in multiple roles, does not present aggression just by having and is very cheap. When people doubted the quality of protection it could offer, he had a demonstration set up where he proceeded to destroy 3 men coming at him with daggers using what is really just a long stick. .

These things are great for historical knowledge or practical "just incase this becomes Mad Max" backup plans, but less so for games. It is very difficult though to balance because if a spear can hold someone off at range, do great armor piercing damage with a thrust, and effectively be used like a staff to push them out in close range, it becomes the default weapon for everyone. Unfortunately game mechanics somewhat have to dictate the situation instead of reality in this case. Though I'm certain a better job can be done than currently, balance is a major concern.

Games are full of this stuff though. I am aware this has nothing to do with Bannerlord itself but for context of how balancing has to work lets look at shooters. Pump action shotguns in game? You shoot then for some reason pull the weapon back against your body, make it vertical and do a very exaggerated chunk-chunk slide, like the breech block weighs about 10 pounds and is rusted shut, before leveling it back out again to shoot, about 1 shot every 1.25-2 seconds. Do you know how fast you can use a pump action shotgun irl? 5 rounds in 4 seconds is a rate that can be considered "careful." The gun never leaves the level and the only thing that moves is your forward arm to do a simple quick slide motion that takes less than a tenth of a second. Because if they let you shoot the gun like it would realistically, you would destroy everything in close range so fast its stupid. 00 buckshot is basically the same thing as a .380 bullet, so its like firing 9 handguns at once at a target.

But on that note, maybe just making all weapons crazy is the correct avenue. If everything is stupidly powerful, nothing is overpowered. Currently, where are the halberds, poleaxes or other two handers that are not super slow, have a strong ranged swing and a reasonable thrust attack? I can make a falx doing 150+ damage with a 110 swing speed and 155 reach. Maybe other weapons need to be as devastating across the board? Having a halberd that could do 120 damage, 95 swing speed and 185 reach sounds fine to me. One handed swords that swing at 120 speed but have lower damage or armor piercing but still make it to 105 range? Great, bring it.
Bows are the only weapon currently performing both in a balanced manner and to expectation, imo

In all honesty I don't mind the smithing stamina system that much. Its a very difficult system to balance because of how powerful it is in terms of equipment and financial power, so something has to restrict you from being able to just overpower it day one. Typically I restore my stamina when sitting around healing or waiting, either for sundown at bandit camps or sunrise for tournaments.

For power gaming I do understand the frustrating part of the barrier it presents. Typically I split my initial followers so that some are colliers and refiners while others are smiths. Spending the time chasing down bandits to melt their weapons down and forge into throwing axes and javelins until you get that magical unlock can be frustrating but as soon as you do, the game is over. I think if the system of learning was flattened out to be targetable and streamlined, accelerated by perks and attributes it would feel better.

While I dont see anything wrong with your post, you have valid complaints and they deserve to be discussed at tale words some others in this thread are very childish and petty. The game has a very open system to allow modding as well as being a sandbox game that allows you to challenge yourself however you see fit. A number of you have established that not smithing lets you have more fun, and that's good. That's what you do in a sandbox game, you write your own story however you see fit. Nobody is forcing you to game the economy with smithing items, and its actually a good thing they dont restrict it to make the game arbitrarily more difficult because someone doesnt want to download increased difficulty mods despite them being the target audience for those The sense of overwhelming power to do whatever you want after becoming a filthy rich weapons merchant gives is something that has created many long term fans to the game that go on much longer than they would if it were just a medieval battle sim.

But all that is my opinion and you're welcome to disagree with mine all the same. Just try to keep it respectful, please.

murtega said:

It is because either you or they are a part of an army. I reported it as a bug but somewhere else on the forum a dev said it’s a design choice. Apparently nobles seek ultimate privacy now in order to ask players’ intentions if they come to power.

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That is super annoying and would be better if it were conveyed to players clearly.
Its a good thing me and him will be alone, aside from hte 225 troops, 10 companions and family members surrounding me. those are incidental, they dont ruin the mood like a whole separate clan does.

Thank you for your response its been a huge help. Time to go get married.

As long as the current stockpiles/influx of grain meets demand for both, and caravans carry it out, there's no reason for there to be any limiting factor. If supply and demand are sufficient to keep both workforces busy, then both can run at capacity.

My apologies uploaded wrong screenshot in previous.

Everyone could fight better because they're trying to impress them and get laid?