Because they are still a small company with different cultural background and haven't used to having such a influx of new players. What they will learn in time is that community matters and if you want to make money with future DLCs you better not piss them off.
Some perks will provide passive XP. Auto-Resolution will continue to be tweaked.
The crafting system is not finalized and will likely see tweaks. However, the bulletin points you list are handled by our artists while your inquiry relates to gameplay design and code.
The new perk designs have 2 effects. I think overall they will provide more utility."New perks that will likely be added on a per skill basis. You can see the beginning of this in our latest beta version (e1.4.0)."
So more nerfing in the future?
AI banners are not a priority at the moment. We may look into this later.
Our game simulates a medieval world (to some degree). We will continue to examine its overall health or balance in terms of providing a fun and sustainable experience and challenge. The listed bulletin points are some of the factors that matter in this regard. (To provide an example, we added a significant amount of female clan members to allow for a more healthy or sustainable population. Previously, the male female ratio was unbalanced which made for very few marriages and children. Excessive snowballing is another example of a "simulation health" issue.)
It refers to fixes & improvements to the current AI bandit hideouts that you can encounter on the worldmap. Player hideouts are not planned as far as I know.
Yes. These are already built into the game in a rudimentary fashion, but death and succession decisions are currently suffering some bugs. We are working on fixing them. In regards to the pregnancy system, I presume you mean additional fertility balancing and potentially points of interaction for the player. This is something we are discussing but it's not a high priority atm.
For now, this refers to balancing consequences and how to communicate them.
We currently do not have such plans.
At least it's only for the time being, hopefully such an option will become available in the game eventually once the primary functions are mostly improved/fixed. For now I am content with the aging feature (and the death by old age that comes with it) that is simply not working instead, essentially making my character having an eternal life, minus the eternal youth part. I prefer playing a M&B game with fancier graphics without having to worry about my character kicking the bucket while transforming into something as wrinkled as a hairless animal too soon. This is one of the only handful of games that I actually come to enjoy after so long, I don't want it becoming the type of game that will end in a stupor just because my character suddenly died from some 'natural' causes despite playing on sandbox.
You could also have the community design them for you. Things like designs of banners, scenes and / or artwork you can get help from the community, much more efficient and less likely that people will dislike it.
Thank you for answering so many questions. Please keep up the communication, it is incredibly valuable to players.
is this you saying theres plans to add these perks or they are already there.
The situation that annoys me is when you start new kingdom and have 0 vassals you take a banch of fiefs and get stuck with them as you have no option to transfer them later. Moreover I feel they have abandoned a lot of good decisions from previos games just for the sake of creating something new. In addition I guess they could at least let you to appoint one nominee for the poll.
