The timer was removed for after you have made a choice to support a side. It keeps ticking if you haven't chosen to support a side.
We are working on a fix for that. It should come SoonTM.
it's a simple problem that resolves itself after 1 month in-game time give or take. I think that's related to the starting money not being set, so the economy starts as if there was none before. Maybe add a pre-set with RNG everytime the game starts anew so it doesn't look THAT weird.
So does this mean I can continue my 1.0.x savegame now more or less without problems or let's say "weirdness"? Did anybody try this? I am not complaining - happy to start a new game, just wanting to know.
I was able to, you should too, though I'd recommend restarting, because there were changes that don't seem to take effect on a old save (I've first tried the older save, than decided to restart, noticed quite a bit of change)
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New Feedback:
I think that Influence should be better explained at the beginning of the game (how it affects both nobles and mercenaries). Also, it's necessary to list all of the factors that can increase skills, currently it's kind of a guess work, some of the ways to increase certain skills are indeed listed, but by ploughing through the game I've noticed (and consequently learned) that many skills increase in kind of intuitive but not mentioned ways.
I'm also still struggling to understand how the "learning limit" thing works, it's quite difficult to guess which would be the most efficient way to distribute both attributes, and focus points. Current play I've ended up stacking everything into combat due to 3 reasons:
1- I've learned the hard way that many passive perks from non-combat trees are not working
2- The beginning is way too brutal in a way that you can barely deal with looters without using canon-fodder
3- The significance of the non-combat skills for early game is next to nil, and to increase them you must grind way too much, for that you must first survive bandits which kind of forces you into combat.
Currently the best way to play is pretty much like good ol'warband, go horse archer, win. Anything else is very difficult. And since I'm a "melee fanboy" I didn't, and I've struggled.
Now, even though I'm currently with 6 vigor and 4 focus points on 2-h, the speed at which it increases is incredibly slow. Does the system works like Warband on a snail back, or is it different? (in WB the amount of dmg would dictate how much the skill would increase).
Another skill that is too hard to level up is Smithing, it becomes a waiting game to click buttons, I'd say give us some weird mini-game that if we succeed we gain more skill points and increase the chances of a critical crafting.
