No more loot and no hair

[hans123]

Hi, two problems:
1. Im getting no more loot after battles since a few ingame days. It just skips the loot screen.
2. Sometimes all characters have no more hair, but its not too tragic since everbody wears a helmet most of the time.
Its just weird when i walk around in town with no hair on my head.
Thx.

 

[The Mercenary]

I take it you visited the barbershop recently.

I'm not sure what the error is, but it sounds like an M&B, not an NE bug. I've seen that happen to a couple people in native.

 

[hans123]

A reinstall didnt work. It still skips the looting screen after i win a battle. I press tab, then it shows the battle stats and maybe a captured lord, but after that it goes right to the world map. I fought against larger armies, where at least an armor or sword should be dropped, but nothing. I also let the dark knights invade and let Achilles create a raiding Party (before).
The first time it showed up was where i fought against the dark knights and was wondering why no armors dropped. After a couple tests against Bandits i realized there is no looting screen anymore.

Any ideas?


Edit: I just tested it with the classic looting system and it works, but the expansion looting system doenst .

 

[DamienZharkoff]

A reinstall didnt work. It still skips the looting screen after i win a battle. I press tab, then it shows the battle stats and maybe a captured lord, but after that it goes right to the world map. I fought against larger armies, where at least an armor or sword should be dropped, but nothing. I also let the dark knights invade and let Achilles create a raiding Party (before).
The first time it showed up was where i fought against the dark knights and was wondering why no armors dropped. After a couple tests against Bandits i realized there is no looting screen anymore.

Any ideas?


Edit: I just tested it with the classic looting system and it works, but the expansion looting system doenst .

Is your mount & blade up to date? It could be you are using 1.003 or something?

 

[hans123]

Im using Mount&Blade 1.011 and NE 5.80 (actually 5.82, but it shows 5.80) + Siege Pack + Battle Sizer + GE 2.5. Everything has worked fine.. it happened yesterday, but i didnt change anything.

Is there a limit for looting equipment or do i have to upgrade my loot skill (currently at 1)? I turned to level 40 not too long ago, might that be the problem?

 

[Pellagus]

When you got to level 40, you must have accidentally invoked the Yul Brynner option. Either that or something is missing from your Native install. Did you install the Isaac Hayes patch by mistake?

 

[hans123]

I didnt install anything except the mods mentioned above. I havent heard anything about a "Yul Brynner option". What is it and were can i deactivate it?

Thanks for replies.

 

[Pellagus]

I didnt install anything except the mods mentioned above. I havent heard anything about a "Yul Brynner option". What is it and were can i deactivate it?

Thanks for replies.

Sorry man, it was a joke.    Seriously, it sounds like something is either corrupt or missing from your Native (i.e. Mount & Blade) installation rather than Native Expansion. Do you get the same problem in Native?

Edit: Felt a bit bad about the Yul Brynner joke, so I did a quick search on the forums for mentions of 'missing hair'. A few people have suggested graphics cards might be the problem. I can't see this being your problem unless you've recntly updated drivers for your card. You could try running in DX9 instead of DX10 as a test. I still think you'll need to reinstall M&B to solve your problem.

 

[hans123]

Thanks for the search and no worries about the joke . So i think i got the hair problem fixed with a complete reinstallation.

The looting screen appears in Native and it also appears in Native Expansion when i turn on the Classic Looting System. The problem is i want to play with the Expansion Looting System, which doenst work.
I checked an older save game and there the Expansion Looting System works (Day 112). But the newer ones at Day>150 don't.

 

[hans123]

Its obvious that the problem comes with the newer save games since the old ones work fine. I compared them and the major difference is the army size. I put some of the men in towns and tested it with less and with about 220 the loot screen appears, but above it doesnt. I dont know the exact size where it starts not working.
Maybe someone could test if the same problem occurs with their save game. Would be great! Thx.

 

[The Mercenary]

That's due to you having so many troops that they take all the loot, and there's none left for you.

 

[hans123]

Really? Why is that, i mean they cant do anything with the loot. Its weird because i remember fighting the dark knights with at least 200 men and got tons of loot. So you basically cant use more than the 220 men if you want to get some loot after battles?

 

[amade]

Really? Why is that, i mean they cant do anything with the loot. Its weird because i remember fighting the dark knights with at least 200 men and got tons of loot. So you basically cant use more than the 220 men if you want to get some loot after battles?

It's just to make it more realistic, the spoils of war are shared among the victors. They don't actually do anything with them in-game as such. However, a sharp drop off in loot received does sound a bit odd. Have you tried increasing your loot skill to see if it has any effect?

 

[Josef_the_Pretender]

And read this whole thread too (I just pointed at a specific entry that's relevant)

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,65054.msg1694227.html#msg1694227

I'm not sure what variation on that, that NE uses, but the thread as a whole is informative. There are apparently some restrictions based on what your troops are wearing as well, which would explain you getting DK armour etc, but not normal stuff.

Edit: though I must say, I've been trailing about in one game with 326 men and I always got loot. They were all infantry - maybe I got the cavalry items as loot

 

[Ruthven]

That's due to you having so many troops that they take all the loot, and there's none left for you.

That's no good, you're their bloody commander.

"Hey guys, can I have anything...?"
"No."
"Aw... Well, get ready to move out at dawn, okay?"
"No, screw you."

 

[Josef_the_Pretender]

When that happens, you take them to Khergit Land and set them free. Let's see how they get on without any orders then, eh? 

(this from someone who's wished before that he could sell his own Lords to Ramun)

 

[hans123]

@Josef:
Interesting post there! What was your loot skill with the 320 men?

@amade:
I made a few tests with the loot skill. I fought against the Queen with Looting at 1 with almost 300 men and got nothing. I reloaded and upgraded the loot skill to 4 and repeated the battle - i got some nice loot. After that I fought the DKs again and got tons of loot with looting at 4.

I guess it was the looting skill which caused it.

Thx for replies!

 

[Josef_the_Pretender]

You had looting at 1 all this time? 

As punishment/reward, go and hire the DVD of the Magnificent Seven. There's a large gap in your education