Bandit Spawns

[JulietPapaOscar]

How exactly does it work? Unfortunately I've encountered a bandit hideout bug that causes an infinite loading screen on ANY hideout I enter, so I can't clear them...but I go anywhere and there are bandits EVERYWHERE which is probably wreaking havoc on the economy

What causes them to spawn? I don't want to constantly have to track each one down (they're starting to get big too, just saw one of 50 looters, yay xp farm for recruits!)

 

[Ichon]

Bandits endlessly spawn to provide a source of grind XP/money. They also grow in size- so far the larger groups of Bandits seem to be around 40 and Looters 50. But 4 groups of 40 Bandits could be in a Hideout for total of 120 + the final 5 with the boss. So far the most I have seen in a Hide out was 93 but I have only played until day 180 in a single campaign.

 

[Pejot]

Bandits endlessly spawn to provide a source of grind XP/money. They also grow in size- so far the larger groups of Bandits seem to be around 40 and Looters 50. But 4 groups of 40 Bandits could be in a Hideout for total of 120 + the final 5 with the boss. So far the most I have seen in a Hide out was 93 but I have only played until day 180 in a single campaign.

Once I saw looters band of 160 in 1.0.3.
Now I newest patch I have problem finding band bigger then 8 but maybe it's due to war attrition mod and lords taking them out.

 

[Lornloth00]

Hideouts could have phases if they have large numbers.

 

[zeidrich]

I did some research on this recently. But the short answer is that bandit hideouts spawn bandits and looters. The game tries to keep the number of hideouts at or below 50% of their maximum density. .

Hideouts are invisible originally, only the player can detect them by coming close enough to them for them to be in their scouting range. The difficulty of scouting a hideout is limited by the number of troops inside it, so you might not see it even within your normal scouting radius if it's not too populated. Hideouts are actually permanent locations, but only "infested" hideouts count. Weekly, if the number of infested hideouts is less than 50% of the maximum, it will try to spawn a random amount of hideouts up to 50% of the maximum density.

The game will try and keep a relative static number of bandits and looters around nearby hideouts up to a certain maximum. What the game cares about is actual mobile parties, it doesn't care about how many are in it. Hourly at night time, it will check to see if there's too many bandits around, and if not, it will have a chance to spawn another group of bandits or looters of the appropriate bandit faction.

The number of bandits and looters scales based on the player's level and the number of days elapsed and a bit of a random factor.

The number of looters and bandits isn't something you will ever be able to reduce. The best you can do is maybe kill the big stacks and ignore the little ones, and then by random luck the next one might spawn small, and if you keep ignoring them, it can eventually fill up to the maximum number of allowed parties and stop spawning. But as soon as it decides to spawn another it will choose to do it based on your a dice roll multiplied by a function of your level and the number of days elapsed from the start of the campaign, and that might be a big group.

Clearing out bandit camps will change how many parties spawn, but only for about a week until the game tries to fill back up the depleted bandits. But it won't have an impact on the strength of the parties.