Returned to game after long absence, is my experience the new normal?

Started a new run post DLC/patch and immediately found:

  1. Smithing is harder now. Still okay
  2. Friendly NPCs do nearly nothing.
  3. Got a few castles and one town early once I became a vassal, but haven’t even been on the options list since. Have personally sieged and conquered dozens of fiefs only to not end up owning them. The new owner loses them almost immediately to lack of defense or rebellion.
  4. Adversary NPCs raid villages constantly and aggressively. Friendly NPCs do zero raiding.
  5. Unless I focused on perks to hold prisoners, they immediately escape and pop back up with 50+ high tier troops quickly.

I’m in this endless grind and not advancing because I can’t get any more fiefs. Any suggestions?

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u/Gene-Hackmans_Dog — 18 days ago

Can a reference frame be rotating?

If I’m on a spaceship and the ship was the reference frame, why would spinning the ship create artificial gravity?

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u/Gene-Hackmans_Dog — 25 days ago
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My peppers looked great but I noticed today that many of them have similar looking damage to the new growth. All the small/new leaves are curled up and deformed. Any ideas what is going wrong? I’m in central California.

My ideas:

  1. Maybe a bug infestation came and went a few weeks ago and now I’m just seeing the result. I don’t see any bugs now.

  2. I under watered them about two weeks ago when we had a heat wave.

u/Gene-Hackmans_Dog — 1 month ago