Originally posted by Myll:

Gents,
The group of you have done some great initial work. Let me offer you some polishing suggestions that are not truly Bugs, but in certain situations, as your Mod is using the construct of the foundational Native game, there could be a mismatch and a tweak may be required, or it's a Quality of Life (QoL) type game issue (and I hope other Mod Players speak up here with these type suggestions also).

- Quests to deliver items across the map, such as to deliver Wine to a Tavern keep. So in Native game, and the smaller-scale map size, you always had enough time at zero Pathfinding skill, to make it from the furthest apart Towns in the game. That is not true on your large map. So you can be offered a 7-day delivery quest and can't effectively make it across the map before quest expiration. Not sure if you play-tested for this one, but I think you should tweak all delivery quests with a play-testing Main Character that is at Pathfinding of zero skill to ensure that even a starting character has enough speed for the time allotted to accomplish the trip across the map. A suggested fix if you are going to standardize all these delivery quests to a single "maximum days" allowed, is to figure out the Minimum time to cross the map from furthest-apart Towns, and then lock that in as the going Quest maximum time to replace the default 7 day limit. Maybe it's 10 days, or something, but it may be a bridge too far to do some Auto-Calc based time allotted based on the game crunching numbers on travel distance and the player's Pathfinding skill, or such -- which would make the Quest's limits dynamic, but could be tough to code, which is why I say to consider just changing to a standard fixed number.

- First Recruiting attempt didn't actually provide the single troop. You should look at the code for a player's first attempt to Recruit, after paying off a village mayor 50 coin to then enable at least one Recruit to be obtained. I had enough coin, paid 50 to the mayor, then he says there is 1 troop willing to join, and I invite to group and coin is paid but upon exiting out of the town, that one troop is not in my group. This was the very first recruiting attempt in the game (quite a loss when you barely have 60-70 coin at start of game). It's these first-time playing, "first look" glitches to especially avoid like the plague.

- Formations should have a Default vs your custom set-up. First off, this is made from the perspective that when one attacks, they don't ask to start from a standstill but are stepping off running toward the enemy but then the player gives commands to form as a unit. I don't think it was wise that for what is normally in Native Game, the rapid process that many of us long-time Native players use, which is the rapid combo F1-F2 Keys (Everyone listen, Everyone follow me), then F2-F3 (Everyone Spread Out). In Native, that normally creates a "Line Formation" to left and right of Main Character, which is arguably the most standard, basic formation in history "Men, Form the Line!!" -- so why undo that Line Formation in the default Native setup? Your default has troops vary in their placement in terms of depth, fore/aft of the Main Character - some far forward of the Main Character, to the point they are literally right in front of the ranged weapons firing line (they're basically stepping straight out ahead of Main Character as if saying, "Please shoot me in the back of the head." I think you should play-test this and tweak the standard F1-F2, F2-F3 formation to restore the Line (formation, that is). I don't mind unique formation orders, but why fix something that isn't broken, specifically regarding the core Line Formation with a spread follow-on? Also, if you compare/contrast your Mod vs Native, note that this entire Line in Native is arrayed perpendicular to the enemy's attack axis, which is another intent of the original game that you should consider preserving.

- Cost mismatches. Fix the cost of Recruits at Villages so that stated cost in Village Elder's dialogue equals actual cost. For example, the Village Elder, after being bribed for 50 coin, is then asked if there are Recruits he could arrange, and his on-screen dialogue says that one troop will cost 10 coin, but after you click the button for the transaction, the game withdraws 30 coin from your account instead.

- Remove all cattle-moving quests (Town-to-Town deliveries of cattle). And you may think I'm joking, but seriously, find a way, any way, to dig into the Native game portion of code to "disable" all Cattle-moving quests given from the Towns' Guild Masters. Simply put - you built an ultra-large scaled map, especially a long axis from Western Europe all the way to the near-East of Asia (and even a portion of the Middle East). You've created an alternate game, now modify the underlying conditions from Native that are "incompatible." In a normal map format Native game, cow-moving is a nearly always "Bypass, no Thanks" quest to refuse. In this Mod? You must be a glutton for punishment to move cows Town to Town in this mod, and you can end up with cattle-moving quest that originate in modern Portugal and are supposed to travel all the way to the Caspian Sea. In real life? Not a single cow would be left alive after that journey. It's illogical, not just un-fun. This may not be an easy task to remove these cow-moving quests from your Mod's game, but I think it will be worth the effort to get all of them out of a Guild Master's random quest queue.