Replace the micromanagy Accolade system with a Squire based system?

[SpiritRiven]

Currently, the Accolade UI is cumbersome and a pain to manage.

I propose (Based on a Reddit post) that the system be replaced, or at least augmented with a Squire based sucession system in which we no longer need to be navigating through the painfully obtuse (And buggy) UI to constantly find successors every time we have a battle and lose a few knights.

I shredder to imagine having a Medieval game and squires not even being a thing

 

[Silens]

Yes, a simple system to take on an able-bodied young squire, who then gets shaped towards fulfilling the requirements of the primary attribute of the respective accolade.

And as to not game the system, like guardian/unguardian children as a witch around the 15th birthday, it should be based on total time spent as a squire.

I can see it work.

 

[Metz]

Page, Squire, then Knight. Have Knight branch off into Knight Errant (wanders for a while), Knight Bachelor (serves you), or Monastic Knight (joins a holy order and may help you in different ways if they become the Grand Master).

 

[Tbeaz161]

This could be a good way to fix the system.

I think its hands down my least favourite system in the game right now - I would actually enjoy it more if it had not been added to the game i think, and I NEVER say things 100% negative like that.

It's simply a nightmare to Interact and babysit- and i dont find it really adds much flavour/roleplay or interesting mechanisms.

For mechanics it only address modifiers- the laziest and least interesting gameplay system in my eyes

And the system lacks particularly interesting roleplay beyond something life "well I like this guy so I'll gives him an accolade as an awards - oh he diet, i guess I'll just give it to randos for the next 200 years so the notification leaves me alone"

I can see squire systems helping with this.

 

[Metz]

Page, Squire, then Knight. Have Knight branch off into Knight Errant (wanders for a while), Knight Bachelor (serves you), or Monastic Knight (joins a holy order and may help you in different ways if they become the Grand Master).

Furthermore, it ensures that all your knights are competent enough to be accolades. In a way, their experience as pages and squires will already mold them into the type of accolade you want them to have once they become knights.

 

[guiskj]

Yes, the dev that made the Accolade system is on record saying it was a late addition to Tours& Tournaments ,with a clunky implementation.

What I dislike the most about it is that it is not an Accolate system at all, it is a better+more MaA system, adding even more bonuses to something that is already suffered from power creep.

The Devs should rethink Accolades altogether into a progression system for the Knight system, where the progression goes from Squire > Knight > Acclaimed Knight > Landed Title.

The system then becomes a vehicle for farming knights and giving those characters a path to a landed title, if they do not have it, or a better title (like a baron getting a county).

The main in-game benefit of this system for the player, apart from better knights, should renown-based. Accolate MaA bonus and retinue should be completely scrapped.

 

[tanktop tiger]

And the worst part is that they are inherited without being linked to the title, a golden opportunity to fix things when they added administrative government. In successions, if the heir has their own knights, leaving them as inheritance can result in them becoming inactive or even disappearing. The acclaimed knight should belong to the title they serve, not the lord, in addition to adding some flavor, such as a mandatory barony for that title, preventing them from fleeing to weave inspiration or do anything else.

 

[Tbeaz161]

Yes its extremely frustrating to all of a sudden inheiret titles you know / care nothing about or have to figure out what happened to yours. Tieing to title is a good idea.

Realm maintenance update seems popular- hopefully they are encouraged to continue doing such things and we get more reworked content