Raid intents give you way more herd than advertised

[Voy]

I'm going to snitch, raiding can not make it this easy to grow your herd.

You all know the numbers for nomadic raid intents:

Pillage: 50% gold, 100% herd
Capture: 25% gold, 50% herd
Plunder: 100% gold, 150% herd
Adventure: 50% gold, 100% herd

If you bring 10 loot back, you get 5 gold and 10 herd according to the UI with the pillage intent as a nomad.

The real outcome is way more.

Pillage: 50% gold, 400% herd
Capture: 25% gold, 200% herd
Plunder: 100% gold, 600% herd
Adventure: 50% gold, 400% herd

With the same 10 loot you still get the same gold count, but the herd count will be 40, 20, 60, and 40, respectively.

Try it out yourself.

This would explain some of why nomads snowball so quickly since you can raid some insane amount of herd quickly. It undermines alternative ways to get herd such as intrigue.

The code is in common\raids\intents\raid_intents

 

[DawramBashere]

Ah, that explains why I ended up with 2000 Herd instead of the stated 500 after rampaging through the Rus Principalities. The actual gain feels too high, while the stated number is too low—something in the middle would strike a better balance. Besides, by the time you can raid effectively, your monthly Herd income is already better than the stated reward anyway.

 

[One Proud Bavarian]

Gonna be a huge nerf to Nomad gameplay when this is fixed LOL

 

[t.et7.8.637.77]

So, I'm currently finding it pretty difficult to get the 75k horse capital needed for the final government level! It was quite a grind to get to my current 26k, and it kept getting reduced because I was at war and lost people. I find it really exhausting to increase the number of horses, and it's actually incredibly difficult. Harder than playing tribal. How do you do it?

 

[Voy]

So, I'm currently finding it pretty difficult to get the 75k horse capital needed for the final government level! It was quite a grind to get to my current 26k, and it kept getting reduced because I was at war and lost people. I find it really exhausting to increase the number of horses, and it's actually incredibly difficult. Harder than playing tribal. How do you do it?

Tributaries and raiding will sort most of that out for you currently.

 

[Aragorn2448]

I created a mod to address this error

Steam Workshop::Nomadic Raid Fix

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