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This post details how handing out of land by the King is done.
The way it handles giving a piece of land to someone is to calculate a “score” for all lords in the faction (including you). This score is based on their renown, number of holdings, whether or not they captured it (the one who starts the siege gets credit), a lot of luck, and if it's you: a tiny addition of the King’s relationship (too small of an addition in my opinion). It then takes the one with the highest score and awards them the land.
The part that actually handles the scoring is in calculate_troop_score_for_center in scripts.txt:
calculate_troop_score_for_center -1
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The first section deals with finding what centers a lord owns and adding up his holdings based on point values. The
4 there is the value of towns in this equation. The
2 is the value of castles. The
1 is the value of villages. I believe castles would count as 3, since you get the castle and the village. All this is added to a base of 1.
The next part adds in renown. The
500 there is the base number that morale gets added to, so even with 0 renown you have a chance of getting stuff. The next line takes that number and divides it by the score holdings score calculated above. Even just 1 castle with fief is going to cut your renown value down to ¼. Then the next line gets a random number from
50-100 and then multiplies that into the score (this is the big random part of it that frustrates many people). It then checks whether or not they captured the place personally – if they did it multiplies it by
3 and then divides it by
2. That effectively gives you a 50% higher score for capturing it. You could change these numbers to give the one capturing it an even bigger chance if you like.
The last part first checks if you’re the player, and if you are it calls the script that checks your relationship with the king. It then multiplies that relationship score by
2 and adds it to your score. Considering that maximum relationship is 100 and that by this point your score is going to be way up in the thousands, even if you have 0 renown, that multiply by 2 is pretty crappy – which means by default relationship to the king is a tiny factor, with the random roll of 50-100 playing the major part in whether or not you get land. That's all for the tweak, now a bit of discussion on it (also long!
)
For example, lets run a guy with 500 renown (a fairly decent renown) who owns 1 castle with village and has been working his ass off for the king (100 relationship) who conquered another castle and requested it.
500+500 = 1,000
/4 = 250
*(50-100) = 12,500 – 25,000
*1.5 = 18,750 – 37500
+200 = 18,950 – 37700
Your current castle weights pretty heavily against you getting another one, but the real killer would be a roll of 50 on the random – that means you have ½ the number that other lords might get. Capturing it yourself helped your roll quite a bit, but all that time you spent sucking up to the king nets you a whopping 0.53%-1.06% increase in score.
Now, if it was 20 times it would be 2000 points, a 5.33-10.66% score increase for the absolute maximum relationship possible in this case. That’s a bit better. Then you might change the 50-100 range to 50-60 to narrow the random gap (and make your relationship boost more on the 10% side). And maybe a change of the multiply/divide bit to make it 2x for capturing yourself. Now suddenly your chances of losing it solely on a random roll are way lower, capturing it yourself plays a much bigger part, and getting on the king’s good side actually has benefits. Adjusting the 500 to base renown to make renown more important might be a good idea too, just remember that it lowers the numbers and thus makes the relationship bonus even higher. It also might be good to set the castle number to 1, since owning a city is at least twice as good as owning a castle + fief – unless your plan is to stick all the castles off on the lords and keep the cities for yourself.
Let’s run it through again with these adjustments: 250 base renown, castle set to 1, capturing it yourself set to x2 instead of 1.5, 20x relationship bonus:
500+250
/3 = 250
*(50-60) = 12,500 – 15,000
*2 = 25,000 – 30,000
+2,000 = 27,000 – 32,000
The number is about the same, but the variability is way less – and the numbers that the other lords are going to get (the ones who didn’t capture it) are going to be significantly less. In this case having the 100 favor and capturing all of the stuff yourself would let you control a big chunk of lands without the king denying you at every turn to give it to that no-name with 0 land who hasn’t won a battle in a year. These are the settings I personally am going to use, you can use whatever ones you want.
Even if you don't make any changes, it's at least a good guide on how the system actually works.
-edit- I updated the 144115188075856122 to 144115188075856123 for 1.010 (due to global variable being added). This doesn't actually affect you if you're just changing the numbers, but if you pasted the whole thing in from the old version it would screw up the script.
-edit2- I changed the 144115188075856123 back to 144115188075856122 since in 1.011 the variable was moved to the bottom of the list and no longer offsets the other variables.
