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>is too short because average player doesn't play as one long enough
>game lets you fuck yourself
>community fix is to cheese the hell out of things
>devs never fix the progression
being able to become a vassal at like tier3 is the problem. One AI war you can't stop and suddenly your 6 hour old campaign sees you with 4 castles you can't defend and an army you can't pay because you did the 2nd dumbest thing possible other than starting a player kingdom.
As a mercenary the midgame actually works as well as the system is able to
>the 4th 4 way AI war of the year is free money to fund your 250man doomstack at 30,000 denars a day from mopping up lords with armies of recruits
>castles that are taken repeatedly? Prosperity ground to nothing? Not your problem lol
>get 100 relation with every clan in your faction by dropping 10 lords in their dungeon
>stack levels and combat, charisma, horsemanship, and scouting XP
What still kills the game is that the only way to buy fiefs is to do the iron caravan buy-sell glitch, which gives you real progression to spending the time to stack millions as a mercenary; buying a correct culture safe location fief. That then allows you to continue doing what you do in the infinite AI wars without having some worthless frontier castle or twelve the AI will never defend for you.
