Just adding to the pile of complaints about this nonsensical nerf. Tournaments are hardly the only exploitable thing in this game, and they were completely pointless in their pre-1.0.7 incarnation as well. They did NOT need a nerf based upon balancing a single-player game mode that is going to be full of bugginess and exploits for months/years to come, at all.
Ways to make tournaments better:
1. Force all competitors to wear the same armor (Warband did this, I have no idea why this isn't implemented)
2. Increase max bet drastically, increase bet odds on player depending on how many tournaments they have won (with a 3-month/1-year cooldown that tapers you back down to initial odds over time)
3. Tournament rewards should be specific to region (no regional armor rewards that don't fit the tournament region, not doing this was so lazy)
4. Chance of rarer tournament rewards on a % basis, with more expensive rewards rarer to see, and hiding what that item is from the player (simply show that the reward is armor, helmet, weapon, etc on the intro screen)
5. Fix the AI, don't nerf components of the game into uselessness because you're afraid of players exploiting a buggy early access game. Exploits will be in large supply for a long time, do NOT make parts of the game useless and un-fun in illogical efforts to balance an early access single-player game mode. Seriously, this is the dumbest thing I've seen in awhile
EDIT: Wow, while I was typing ID10T16 mentioned a lot of the same suggestions. Totally agreed, and I'm a little creeped out by the username and suggestion similarity haha.
Ways to make tournaments better:
1. Force all competitors to wear the same armor (Warband did this, I have no idea why this isn't implemented)
2. Increase max bet drastically, increase bet odds on player depending on how many tournaments they have won (with a 3-month/1-year cooldown that tapers you back down to initial odds over time)
3. Tournament rewards should be specific to region (no regional armor rewards that don't fit the tournament region, not doing this was so lazy)
4. Chance of rarer tournament rewards on a % basis, with more expensive rewards rarer to see, and hiding what that item is from the player (simply show that the reward is armor, helmet, weapon, etc on the intro screen)
5. Fix the AI, don't nerf components of the game into uselessness because you're afraid of players exploiting a buggy early access game. Exploits will be in large supply for a long time, do NOT make parts of the game useless and un-fun in illogical efforts to balance an early access single-player game mode. Seriously, this is the dumbest thing I've seen in awhile
EDIT: Wow, while I was typing ID10T16 mentioned a lot of the same suggestions. Totally agreed, and I'm a little creeped out by the username and suggestion similarity haha.