In Progress Can purchase settlements as a Non-Kingdom - No war?

[rules05]

Summary: I have been playing as a trader. I have amassed a nice sized collection of settlements. (4 Towns, ~7 Castles). Is it intended that other kingdoms can't declare war on my clan? I did create a kingdom at some point and had a couple kingdom's immediately declare war on me, I reloaded the save before I did that and have kept it as a clan. Personally, I think the war system is still broken and nonsensical.

How to Reproduce: Do what I did.

Quest/Settlement Name (if related): Any.

Media (Screenshots & Video): New account or I would post a picture or two.

Version: Created this game in 1.4.1 (newest beta)

Installed community-made modifications: No mods.

Computer Specs:
OS: Windows 10
GPU: Radeon RX480
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700
RAM: 32GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 wifi
Storage Device (HDD/SSD): Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500gb

SAVE FILES:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t295sn9jokundis/Trader.sav?dl=0 (Clan)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xcn9xcko8fnlr1l/Kingdom.sav?dl=0 (After KingdomCreation)

 

[KyDeezy]

It is kinda cool that it's possible to beat the entire game without a fight with current war and diplomacy mechanism. But agreed it needs work.

 

[elysebluemoon]

Forwarding this issue to the QA team for further investigation. Thanks for reporting. In the meantime, can you share your save files? You can use a cloud service and post an open link on this thread.

 

[Doofus]

Sort of related. I took over a town at clan level between 2 and 3. Made peace with the enemy kingdom. Have played many hours (20 or 30 Maybe more?) since and no one has declared war on me. I planned to start an independent kingdom, but afterwards found out you have to be level 4 clan to start a non-quest kingdom. It takes forever to get to level 4 without any major battles and in this play-through I don't want to be a vassal of another kingdom. I assume I could start a war with another kingdom, but they won't start one with me. Not sure if I want to start one with them since they can form armies and I can't. You should be able to start a kingdom at any level. Back to the point of your thread though, even though for the purposes of the game I'm basically a bandit that took over a town, no one wants to take it back from me.

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

Sort of related. I took over a town at clan level between 2 and 3. Made peace with the enemy kingdom. Have played many hours (20 or 30 Maybe more?) since and no one has declared war on me. I planned to start an independent kingdom, but afterwards found out you have to be level 4 clan to start a non-quest kingdom. It takes forever to get to level 4 without any major battles and in this play-through I don't want to be a vassal of another kingdom. I assume I could start a war with another kingdom, but they won't start one with me. Not sure if I want to start one with them since they can form armies and I can't. You should be able to start a kingdom at any level. Back to the point of your thread though, even though for the purposes of the game I'm basically a bandit that took over a town, no one wants to take it back from me.

I think this is an oversight in giving the player a little wiggle room to take a fief and then continue the main quest by talking to the NPC, without getting dog-piled before ever becoming a Kingdom. But I can confirm factions seem to never attack you if you're a lone Clan with a town (or many many heh heh) aside from if you start a fight with them, which you can make peace after and they leave you alone seemingly indefinitely.

Not sure if I want to start one with them since they can form armies and I can't.
But you took property on your own so you must be competent? Have more confidence, you can beat 10X your size with good units and tactics.
I would count this as a blessing as becoming a Kingdom will absolutely plunge you into a multi front war that will never end. Because it seems to be incredibly difficult for the Dev team to balance out campaign stuff, I would enjoy this ability to control the pace of the game via not being in a kingdom/faction

 

[Doofus]

But you took property on your own so you must be competent? Have more confidence, you can beat 10X your size with good units and tactics.

I can easily beat an army at least 5x my size & maybe beat a significantly larger army when I'm well stocked. But they will be back a day later with another large army & I can't restock anywhere near as fast as they can. Thats why I decided not to do the Neretzes quest this time. Having grouped armies I feel I could beat any single kingdom, even with their spammed armies. But fighting 2 or more major kingdoms sending 500+ at me every day was eventually unplayable. I survived a long time, but each battle took about 10 active, good, units from me. I went from having 250 in the battle to 150 after a while and wouldn't have lasted much longer than when I quit. Also, quite frankly, I'd rather play my own style than be led around on a leash.

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

I can easily beat an army at least 5x my size & maybe beat a significantly larger army when I'm well stocked. But they will be back a day later with another large army & I can't restock anywhere near as fast as they can. Thats why I decided not to do the Neretzes quest this time. Having grouped armies I feel I could beat any single kingdom, even with their spammed armies. But fighting 2 or more major kingdoms sending 500+ at me every day was eventually unplayable. I survived a long time, but each battle took about 10 active, good, units from me. I went from having 250 in the battle to 150 after a while and wouldn't have lasted much longer than when I quit. Also, quite frankly, I'd rather play my own style than be led around on a leash.

Cut off their heads and they eventually stop coming back