Resolved Mercenaries & Vasalls running out of troops

[swally0ne]

Summary: You see quite often that mercenaries and Vasalls are out of troops and waiting in a village without recruiting. I got some vasalls after creating a kingdom and found out that this is most likely happening because of a lack of money. So now iam running around giving my vasalls money even if they have more settlements than i do so they can finally recruit. It makes the game unplayable unless you stay as a vasall forever. You can barely invite Parties into an Army as they are constantly below 40%. You see that all of the factions Vasalls loose a load of people all of the sudden by travelling around. It seems like that especially Battania is suffering from that.
in addition, ai armies still quit sieges suddenly.
You can reach out to the savefile "justagirl3" to take a look here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IiFQ_WGgZVzf6FsgWZcpl8vDH4nmZ9nq
How to Reproduce: Play the game.
Have you used cheats and if so which: No
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[volovos]

Yeah something similar happens whenever I invite parties. Whenever you invite an NPC lord they travel straight to your army without making any stops. This is a problem because it seems like NPC don't carry a lot of food so by the time they arrive to your army, their entire party is wounded.

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Are you still experiencing this issue on the latest version of the game?

 

[swally0ne]

Are you still experiencing this issue on the latest version of the game?

hello marda!
everything seems fine on the vassall side. i saw no issues.
sadly i can't confirm this for the mercenary side.
to me it seems like the mercenaries are only able to recruit troops as soon as they get money from the mercenary contract.
the issue gets visible if you take a look at mercenaries which are joining an (economy-) weak faction or stay independent for a certain while. i hired mercenaries where there was not a single party leader able to recruit over the 40% req for army join. they stayed below that 40% for very long. after some successful fights they started recruiting. if they dont win fights/run away they'll stay below the 40% for a long time (i assume they can't recruit a lot->no fights->no contracts).
i hope i can make you a save file this weekend.

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Thank you for the insight. Will be waiting for the file. Cheers.

 

[swally0ne]

Thank you for the insight. Will be waiting for the file. Cheers.

pm'd

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Got the file, forwarded. Thank you!

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Are you still experiencing this issue on the latest version of the game? (v1.0.2)

 

[swally0ne]

Are you still experiencing this issue on the latest version of the game? (v1.0.2)

iam not done with testing but seems good so far! thanks for the work!

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Thanks for the reply. Have fun playing!

 

[swally0ne]

Thanks for the reply. Have fun playing!

Unfortunately, in 1.1.0 the issue is even worse:

after a couple of years in the game and the first war interactions, a lot of party leaders are running on low ammount of troops. this has happened to me and others on several runs.

we do think this is because of a combination of issues, while the biggest one is the amount and steadiness of war declarations and wars happening in 1.1.0 leading to a lot of unit losses. that is making towns and villages empty of recruits and party leaders are not really able to recruit. that is causing a downwards spiral of more and more party leaders running out of units.

yet they are recruiting, if they can.

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Forwarding thank you