My recommendation is somewhat related to this post: https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/player-parties-ai.446406/
However, my recommendation is very specific. If nothing else, Taleworlds would you please allow us to equip our companions who are leading parties. Right now, if I want to give a party leader better armor and equipment, I have to disband his party, take the companion into my party, and then I can equip them. This is ridiculous and cumbersome.
I have two choices when I do this:
Choice 1: I can disband my companion's party outright. This option allows me to very quickly get my companion back into my party and equip them. However, the con is that I lose all those troops my companion recruited into his party (or which I gave to them).
Choice 2: I can inspect my companion's troops and take them all into my party or put them in garrison. This allows me to keep the troops, rather than lose them. Next I have to disband my companion's party. Then I hunt down my companion who may or may not remain in the city where I disbanded them (something is broke at this point. The companion is not immediately available to be brought into my party after disbanding). When I find them, take them into my party, and equip them. After that, I have to create a new party, put that companion back in charge and figure out which troops I took from them initially because I prefer to give them back the exact troops they had. So, I keep my troops, but this method takes a very long time.
Both choices are horrible. I feel like it would be an easy fix (a very easy fix) for you all to allow us to simply equip our companions. In fact, please allow us to equip our companions at all times regardless of what they're doing. This is similar to the situation with distributing focus points and skill levels. We used to only be able to do that specifically with companions who were in our party. You all (Taleworlds) changed that and made it better. I can now distro focus points and skill points to all my companions at any time. I appreciate that you all did that.
Please, please fix the game so I can also equip my companions at any time. Choice 2 above used to be semi-functional because I could immediately take my companion into my party after disbanding them. But as of 1.6.2, when I disband my companion's party, there's some disbanding period and even though I can see my companion in the city I'm in, I don't have the option to take them into my party. So, essentially, with 1.6.2, you all broke choice number 2 above. So, if you don't want to carry out my recommendation, please at the very least fix choice 2 so I can do that without having to wait for some random disbanding timeline before I can take my companion back into my party.
However, my recommendation is very specific. If nothing else, Taleworlds would you please allow us to equip our companions who are leading parties. Right now, if I want to give a party leader better armor and equipment, I have to disband his party, take the companion into my party, and then I can equip them. This is ridiculous and cumbersome.
I have two choices when I do this:
Choice 1: I can disband my companion's party outright. This option allows me to very quickly get my companion back into my party and equip them. However, the con is that I lose all those troops my companion recruited into his party (or which I gave to them).
Choice 2: I can inspect my companion's troops and take them all into my party or put them in garrison. This allows me to keep the troops, rather than lose them. Next I have to disband my companion's party. Then I hunt down my companion who may or may not remain in the city where I disbanded them (something is broke at this point. The companion is not immediately available to be brought into my party after disbanding). When I find them, take them into my party, and equip them. After that, I have to create a new party, put that companion back in charge and figure out which troops I took from them initially because I prefer to give them back the exact troops they had. So, I keep my troops, but this method takes a very long time.
Both choices are horrible. I feel like it would be an easy fix (a very easy fix) for you all to allow us to simply equip our companions. In fact, please allow us to equip our companions at all times regardless of what they're doing. This is similar to the situation with distributing focus points and skill levels. We used to only be able to do that specifically with companions who were in our party. You all (Taleworlds) changed that and made it better. I can now distro focus points and skill points to all my companions at any time. I appreciate that you all did that.
Please, please fix the game so I can also equip my companions at any time. Choice 2 above used to be semi-functional because I could immediately take my companion into my party after disbanding them. But as of 1.6.2, when I disband my companion's party, there's some disbanding period and even though I can see my companion in the city I'm in, I don't have the option to take them into my party. So, essentially, with 1.6.2, you all broke choice number 2 above. So, if you don't want to carry out my recommendation, please at the very least fix choice 2 so I can do that without having to wait for some random disbanding timeline before I can take my companion back into my party.