there's a lot of rep grind now, is it a good thing?

[bravesirknight]

Well I've put a ton of hours into .960. It's a great version at any rate. What I'm noticing over time though is there's a huge amount of grinding to help make conditions favorable for you. Want to be marshall? You're going to have to do quests for everyone in the faction 20 times, and somehow take care of your own affairs as well. Want to make your fiefs better? Get ready to constantly do stuff for each one because it seems they're always going poor and don't get better unless you hold their hand all the time by doing... more quests! Then what's even funnier is you get quests from other people that lower your reps, like Lords asking you to do taxes, or killing people in their town. Suddenly people you hardly even know won't give you recruits. Maybe you should do quests for them to.

Now this would be okay that there's so much of this stuff going on, but what bugs me is I'm clearly the military force to be reckoned with. I do all the damn grunt work for my empire, taking on castles and cities that the rest of them are too lily livered to even dream about. I train guys like crazy and garrison up like crazy. I defend not just my interests but everyone else's... and what do I get... sorry we're not going to help you today because we have a -1 toward you because one time you stepped on a bug in Suno and that's bad luck.  Or the King telling me to go **** myself for taking that castle, but I can have 900 dinars for the effort. Note to King: that's not a lot of money. I feel like you're the old granny giving us a nickel for raking 20 acres of leaves. ****er.

The moral of this story is find a way to rebel as soon as possible, and lock all the kings in a prison tower for the rest of their lives. 

 

[MrRipYourHeadOff]

Yeah I agree. The early game is really tough and takes a long time to get on your feet, that was my main problem. Seems like the end game is tough too though because all of your AI friends are useless.

 

[Triosta]

Then don't do all that stuff. Become a Sea Raider. Name yourself Sea Raider and dress like a Sea Raider, and get nothing but Sea Raider troops.

"What is your name?" "My name is Sea Raider. I will drink from your skull!"

 

[Will Greaves]

Or the King telling me to go **** myself for taking that castle, but I can have 900 dinars for the effort. Note to King: that's not a lot of money. I feel like you're the old granny giving us a nickel for raking 20 acres of leaves. ****er.

Ha!  Good call.

 

[Sinan]

I'm trying to get around that. I want MY empire.. all MINE !

 

[Alex]

I haven't seen a problem with any of your complaints. Your actions have consequences and by progressing in some areas you end up treading on peoples toes. I like it all. Once I've got a castle and a fief or two I tend to become unstoppable as I can afford over 100 elite troops of my faction and start beating on enemy armies like no ones business.

 

[GhostHawk]

Skys the limit, become robin hood!

Take a castle for a base someplace, let several factions declare war against you. Then go do what YOU want to do. 

 

[napancux]

Take a castle for a base someplace..Then go do what YOU want to do.

Meaning spend your entire game, from that point, defending your castle against all the other lords who will rush from all over the Calradia to try and capture it, despite their own wars and stuff.
What can I say? w00t!

 

[cobrakral]

in my opinion  the best statue in M&B is being a Marshall, then you can control all the lords even the king has to follow you... i do not need to think about my troops expenses because i have just 40 men and i use other lords  army   and always i have enough soldier to defend the castles and conquer the castles...

one question do you know how can  you help other lords to recruit more soldier  and have better soldiers?

i found 2 way :
1- after conquering the enemy castle or beating the enemy lord i do not rescue the prisoners so the other lords who joined the battle can recruit them . since i can always recruit as many as i want and train in a short term it is fine for me . and also some lords asks you to train some knights fro them i try to take this missions aswell

2- when i conquer a castle i do not claim it so other lords can have it and since they have more fiefs their wealth is increasing and they can recruit more soldier.

Please add other ways to do it if there is

 

[vimsu]

This is really anoying, and let me tell you why: if you want your faction to suceed in taking over the world, the marshal must have a good plan. But because of the crappy AI, they don't.
So, you must be the marshal. But, if you want to be he mashal, you have to go trough all that ****.

I rest my case.

 

[Engima]

I dont mind some of the quests, but yes, collecting taxes sucks, delivering letters sucks, scouting kinda sucks. It makes me feel like a kiss-ass. - ''Yes, lord yaroglek! it will be no trouble at all lord yaroglek!!'' 

 

[napancux]

But, if you want to be he mashal, you have to go trough all that ****.

Actually, you just need to save your fellow lord's arses a couple of times. It will make you marshall without any of that 'go get it boy' stuff. Just hang around warparties and join the battles.
I find being a marshal troublesome, though. And, worst of all, you can't quit unless you get defeated (at least I think so).

 

[HardCode]

Just when in the history of gaming did "playing the game" get replaced with this (false) concept of "grinding"??? If you don't like doing things in the game, then you don't like the game. Play something else?

 

[Gabeed]

I, for one, enjoy the "grinding" in regards to helping out one's own fief.  I feel like Balian of Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven, hanging around my fief all the time and protecting it until Graveth calls up a massive campaign.  This is a very open-ended game, and you don't have to become marshal and siege cities as quickly as possible.  You don't have to "grind" if you don't want to.