I think its tied to faction strength.
Hmmm this could be! In normal games I have large amount of land (power) when I make a faction and hire mercs! In this game I just took 1 castle to put horses in and though, why not make a faction? Without even clan parties my power is minimal on paper.
The relation thing can be fixed by "Saving their bums"
What I might do is after I finish off the faction leader and am done killing, I will attack them and let them go to re-build relations. Of course.... then it doesn't matter as there's nobody I need protection from unless there's some buggery like the minor factions still being hired by phantom factions and raiding me!
Space managment in BL (like in M&B btw) is crucial.
That is : where you are, where you go, has to be where important actions (battles, recruitment) is.
Yeah this is what I describe as campaign time, the time you use up with your character that allows other parties to also move and do stuff. I view this as the primary recourse of the game.
It reminds me of a device that there was in Warband : we could build Watchtowers in the villages, so as to have informations (maybe being advertised when village was raided, don't remember exaclty)
Yes this was an excellent feature, of course Bannerlord gives us too much information about where enemies are and what they're doing anyways. I would like the warband upgrade (walls?) that made the raid time take X2 as long! Of course raiding is different but perhaps reducing the rate of material lost or causing a delay before it starts.
Instead I have to go find them 3/4 of the map away, while I'm at war, leaving my land unprotected.
And the AI does it via magic telepathy, they can even be locked up and get mercs. Honestly they should be sending you messengers too.
If only Eisenhower had balls this big. Down with the military-industrial complex.
They can be the farmers or the fertilizer, thier choice.
I agree that we should be able to hire mercs despite bad relations.
They should just want more money if anything. Not that they should hate you so much for killing lords, although I guess technically the game considers them lords too so I guess.... but it's not good for gameplay because it just makes them the same as other clans, just less useful because they can't be landed.