Quick questions about fiefs

[Sikker]

If you have a fief and made built some improvements in it, then lose the fief, and later recapture it again will it have the improvements again or do you need to rebuild them?
And what about if you were building an improvement but it wasnt finished yet?

Also, I found something a little confusing...I am a vassal of the Rhodoks and we captured Shariz, which comes with a couple of villages...but one of these villages (rushdigh or something) was never given to anyone. And even months later when I talked to the other vassals or the king, I couldn't ask who should receive the village. Is this a bug or am I missing something here?

 

[Aure]

Improvements remain after the village/castle/town is captured/raided even if they were not completed at that time, they will continue to build build.

When rewarding fiefs the king will start rewarding towns first, then castles then villages.

Example: Your faction captures a castle. A poll will be started to see who gets that castle (not the castle+village). If in this time you capture lets say another town and 2 castles, the poll for fief rewards will go like this: The town, then the 2 castles, and last all the villages (at this point i think the game/king rewards them in the order they were captured).

If that one village is all that remains from the fiefs not rewarded and there is no poll to decide who gets it, then its a bug or something.

 

[Sikker]

Okay thanks, then I just have a few more questions...
Do the improvements work when I don't own the fiefs? for example will it take longer for me to raid a village if I had built a watch tower there when I owned it?
And can other lords build their own improvements in fiefs?

 

[Sikker]

Well I just had the same bug again, we took over unuzdaq castle, it was awarded to me, yet no one gets the village amashke, even weeks later no one gets it. Meanwhile, Shariz got taken by the khergits, and the village that already had the bug, rushdigh, is once again given to no one, even if another faction takes it :/

Anyone had any experience with this bug, or know how to prevent it?

 

[pickled_heretic]

this is just speculation... but maybe lords force 1 village to be reserved as free no matter what?  that way, when you swear fealty to a lord, he has a property to give you.  that way lords can entice followers to their banner via promise of land.

 

[Lord Brutus]

I've seen games where Ruvar, a Nord village, began the game unassigned. Maybe Ragnar was saving it for a new lord.