A little confused

[AA0]

So I played my first game of custom settlements and found there was almost nothing to do.  Is this normal? 

I picked a settlement somewhat close to the main one.  I spent most of my time picking off their peasants and building my town, training peasants and building up a military, at first.  Shortly after that I went hero hunting and got a few of them, but can't find any way to increase relations more.

The bandit town is weak, they send out small patrols that are overwhelmed by local forces.  Their numbers keep shrinking and shrinking over time, if you kill more patrols they get weaker, but there is nothing else to attack.  Am I missing something? Is there something else to do?  The adventure groups and merc groups are in the 1400+ range for party size, the large town keeps taking villages and losing them to bandits and constantly moves back and forth between the two taking and losing them.  There are no bandits to attack, and the few that did exist were so incredibly weak and low in numbers you could never level up. 

I love the idea of the mod, and I built up a town to the full version, I just can't find anything to do. 

 

[Rize]

Try becoming an ally with the bandits, it's much more fun this way. Peasant parties are always bigger, and almost always chase you more, and your town grows faster too, because you can raid peasant settlements and they bring population and resources home. I had e0m1 with 800+ population!
Besides, this mod is still in beta, missions, diplomacy and stuff to do will be added in future versions.

 

[AA0]

I realize it was in beta, I was just wondering if there was something I was missing to the game play. 

I guess bandit spawns needs to be put in to make it more playable, and take a strain off the only town.  Since I prefer to not side with the bandits I guess I'll just keep looking in for now. 

I believe at E1M0 I had 600ish peasants, and 250ish garrison (I capped that early on)  but it came to the point where I said now what?  I hit rest here with only my heros and walked away from the computer until the summary screens would pop up. 

 

[Kaibur]

When i'm not playing normally or scene editing/troop editing, I tend to start a new game, build a quick military/economy, and wait for Custow and 4 camps to be occupied by a hero. Then I upgrade them all to towns using the cheat menu, and let things go from there.
Or I just do a cavalry charge at Charfield. Fun times

 

[haplo888]

As a ruler, I found armed bands of mercenaries rampaging around my lands to be quite threathening once their numbers started getting around 100.  The vagabands have been quite entertaining, and profitable, since.

Haplo

 

[AA0]

Alright, so I attempted to fight against the Mercs.  I really didn't realize that there was an unlimited number of reinforcement waves in this mod, I definitely would have chosen better troops to fight against since I was only allowed 13 on the field at a time.  This is kind of ridiculous though. 

 

[LuckyDuckly]

Well you won, so I think you should replace "ridiculous" with "awesome".

 

[Chris119119]

Try becoming an ally with the bandits, it's much more fun this way. Peasant parties are always bigger, and almost always chase you more, and your town grows faster too, because you can raid peasant settlements and they bring population and resources home. I had e0m1 with 800+ population!
Besides, this mod is still in beta, missions, diplomacy and stuff to do will be added in future versions.

wait if i raid a town all there population comes to me????

 

[LuckyDuckly]

No, the population will become your prisoners. The prisoners that the raided settlement had will join the resource caravan (a caravan carrying the city's resources) and, upon reaching your city, will join your army.

 

[Diavolo]

you will still get some peasants by raiding a village (preferably a big one like the bandit city) I often get from 5 till 20 peasants every time I raid one, and I got 80 the time I radied the bandit city.

 

[Berpol]

No, the population will become your prisoners. The prisoners that the raided settlement had will join the resource caravan (a caravan carrying the city's resources) and, upon reaching your city, will join your army.

In a sense yes, because imprisoned peasants and so on rejoin your population after a week or so. Only troop types stay imprisoned.

 

[Rize]

if you knock every peasant unconscious like i do you get all their population as prisoners and in a week they join your population

 

[AA0]

I got bored again and decided to attack the adventurer party.  I took 13 companions out (all only level 20) and lost 8 during the battle, but took out all 740+ adventurers. 

 

[LuckyDuckly]

No, the population will become your prisoners. The prisoners that the raided settlement had will join the resource caravan (a caravan carrying the city's resources) and, upon reaching your city, will join your army.

In a sense yes, because imprisoned peasants and so on rejoin your population after a week or so. Only troop types stay imprisoned.

Well I learned something new today. I thought they just ran away or something.

 

[Pode]

Alright, so I attempted to fight against the Mercs.  I really didn't realize that there was an unlimited number of reinforcement waves in this mod, I definitely would have chosen better troops to fight against since I was only allowed 13 on the field at a time.  This is kind of ridiculous though. 

I recall reading recently in War and Peace and War about a French peasant's revolt that was put down by a small band of knights who rode into town and swam out in the resulting river of blood.  Other than the 138 Mercenaries that should have given you a better run for your money, looks like that's what happened here.
I assume you have the battlesizer mod and so the 13 at a time is a hardware limitation of your machine?

 

[AA0]

ya, I used to keep it up at 200 but I've been putting some on youtube and the video capture makes anything too large lag enough that it throws me off.  I think its only 170ish now. 

My latest tactics, which is kind of exploitish, is to run around the map and side against any heros I want to impress.  Since there is no negative effect for that, and only a +5 relation when you let them go you can build up relations fast.  It always seems heros are over 50% health when they exit the battle, so they'll run right back to the bandits or whoever they are fighting and you can get easily get 30+ points with one or even 3 or 4 people in very short periods of time.