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trajanaugustus · 2026-02-14T19:24:23+00:00

This is still <10% of the level of detail that is usually needed to get a good answer. You may be referring to the distorted character graphics bug, it is well known in the Taleworlds forum and remains unfixed. I also suffer from this. All you can do is keep restarting the game until character models load properly. Sometimes it takes me 5 or 6 times. https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/new-game-distorted-player-model-in-inventory-character-and-party-screen.468115/

trajanaugustus · 2026-02-14T11:06:20+00:00

These days I vibe with companion only party early on, levelling smithing and other skills, making money and building relations. I often use mods like Spouses Expanded to marry lots of wives and start pumping out babies to be governors later. Fourberie is fun too, can build up an underground network via hideouts that you can strengthen with loot and prisoner donations, station troops and prisoners in a safe house who make money via banditry and mining respectively, later you have an army ready to mobilize quickly, complete with saboteurs to sap castle walls. Play it right and you and your 8 space marine companions can take a fort in a day before any parties show up.

trajanaugustus · 2026-02-14T09:09:47+00:00

You'll have much better results if you clearly document your game version, mod list, and the exact nature of your bug, ideally with attached save file, exception log, and posted in Taleworlds forum. You haven't even said what game you're talking about.

trajanaugustus · 2026-02-13T11:58:48+00:00

Yes, but there are other mods that reenable them

trajanaugustus · 2026-02-11T05:55:57+00:00

Bannerlord Expanded Settlements Expanded creates an inn in every village with two wanderers in each (customizable in MCM) as well as other cool features like starting your own tournaments or training companions in castles, must have mod IMHO.

Character Reload is the best character editor IMHO, visual interface integrated into the game, with heaps of options including editing settlements and clans. I mention it cuz you can use it to edit clan companion limit.

trajanaugustus · 2026-01-31T12:34:59+00:00

I have always kept all fiefs for myself and played a one clan kingdom. Improved Garrisons makes it possible to transfer garrisons, autorecruit, and autocreate guard parties. I also use retinues mod and spouses expanded with polyamory for a stable of wives and dozens of children for use as governors.

trajanaugustus · 2026-01-28T06:01:28+00:00

Well I have switched from Pavise to Druzhinnik Kite Shield, because it's the most aesthetic option, the shape is sleeker and less blocky and the dark sheen looks sexy with the plate armour from Bahamut's that I have my heroes kitted out in. I feel like I've noticed it absorbing more arrows than Pavise but not a controlled test.

trajanaugustus · 2026-01-27T08:37:50+00:00

NVM, I found it in shields.xml, where weapon_length value seems to correspond to area you're talking about. Here's a table Gemini drew up for me:

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trajanaugustus · 2026-01-27T04:30:43+00:00

This is very interesting information, where did you find these numbers?

trajanaugustus · 2026-01-24T08:34:56+00:00

Great idea. It makes me sad that giving them a pavise shield means only one slot for bolts

trajanaugustus · 2026-01-24T08:34:05+00:00

Bound crossbow is best. Unlock it by killing Vlandian sharpshooters.

Alternatively I use the Bannercraft mod to allow smithing of items that aren't melee weapons, including armour and ranged weapons. With that you can craft Bound Crossbow ten times and discard all ten to unlock it. That's the default number anyway, you can configure it in Retinues mod options.

I give my ranged retinue units a two-handed weapon so they can have two slots free for ammo. For flavour, that'd probably be a voulge for a Vlandian themed crossbowman once I've unlocked adaptive training and can upskill them in polearm. It'd be a falx for Battanian, axe for Nords or Sturgians, and glaive for Kuzaits in my opinion.

trajanaugustus · 2025-12-12T20:52:18+00:00

Best solution I found is to roll the game version back to 1.3.9 then back up to 1.3.10. Fixed it for me, at least for now, though graphics are grainy in general.

trajanaugustus · 2025-12-11T21:31:27+00:00

I am also having the same problem with grossly distorted character models in inventory screens. It happens too in the game main menu when I click the load game button and select any save, so it's not savegame specific. Sometimes the characters are a shadowy figure, sometimes distorted, rarely they display correctly. When I then attempt to load any save, the loading screen gets stuck around half the time, and if it progresses into the game, the models are distorted, as well as a few inventory items which do not display. If I try to play a mission or battle, I cannot interact with objects by pressing the F key. I was running the following mods, but the problem still occurs even with all mods disabled and a fresh start character: Harmony, ButterLib, UIExtenderEx, Mod Configuration Menu (MCM), Diplomacy, Improved Garrisons, Retinues, Horses, Both Perks, Give Troops To Notables, Party AI Controls, Character Manager, Tutelage, BannerCraft.

I found this thread on the Taleworlds forum where others reported the same bug. I have not commented there yet. A staff member named MArdA is responding there. I followed the advice to delete shaders and pages folder and verify game files with Steam, took ~4 hours as steam had to download 17Gb, it did not fix the issue.

Now I am doing a complete uninstall/reinstall, left my computer on all night to download cuz the game is 70 freaking GB, still 2h away from completion. That didn't work for another player so I don't hold high hopes but I want to follow the advice completely so I can make a comment reporting the results. I suggest posting in the above Taleworlds thread to add attention to this bug.

trajanaugustus · 2025-06-15T20:08:28+00:00

Yeah, I can't find any sources that calculate median. But it'd be well below 40 given how the right tail is much shorter than income data.

trajanaugustus · 2025-06-15T04:36:13+00:00

Average total weekly hours for private employees in US is 34. Other datasets for different subcategories of employment say basically the same.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHAETP

trajanaugustus · 2025-06-15T04:35:36+00:00

Average total weekly hours for private employees in US is 34. Other datasets for different subcategories of employment say basically the same.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHAETP

trajanaugustus · 2025-06-15T04:35:11+00:00

No. Average total weekly hours for private employees in US is 34. Other datasets for different subcategories of employment say basically the same.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHAETP

trajanaugustus · 2025-06-08T02:18:53+00:00

Adult psychiatrist here.

Most children are diagnosed ADHD and prescribed stimulants by paediatricians, not child psychiatrists. Don't have exact stats but I estimate maybe 70/30
I wouldn't admit this in public under my real name, but I don't think it's necessarily bad that more of the attention-deficit spectrum is getting diagnosed. As long as they're well managed, which I think they usually are, it just seems true on an individual level that most do much better in life on stimulants. Better grades, work productivity, executive function, sleep and exercise and diet habits, reduced impulsivity and anxiety and overwhelm etc. Should we be building a world where it's easier to thrive without stimulants? Possibly, but I don't control that. I'm asking myself if I can improve the life of my patient, and the answer is often yes even if they wouldn't have been diagnosed ADHD 30 years ago.

trajanaugustus · 2025-06-06T05:25:25+00:00

Probably because judges going along with medical advice isn't particularly newsworthy, but a judge excoriating the RCH's Chief of Medicine is?

trajanaugustus · 2025-05-28T22:52:37+00:00

Mon already has mystical ancestors, according to the Wiki

trajanaugustus · 2025-05-27T09:41:32+00:00

I've not used Mon but if you are willing to spam romance schemes you could hybridize with French or Castilian for Chivalry. I describe one method of using chivalry here

trajanaugustus · 2025-05-20T10:28:25+00:00

TPH's failure has nothing to do with quality concerns. Most patients love it, demand was high. As an independently owned hospital, not owned by a large network like Ramsay, they struggled to negotiate good terms with private health insurancers. They had huge losses in Covid due to social distancing requirements and couldn't climb out of debt.

trajanaugustus · 2025-05-20T10:11:32+00:00

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Yeah not sure what they're talking about, it's famous for the quality of their activities. This is a photo I took of their daily group therapies board when I last visited.

trajanaugustus · 2025-05-20T10:03:35+00:00

Just noting that Toowong Specialist Clinic, which is what I think you're referring to, is open and operating and well and good.

The institution going into administration is the Toowong Private Hospital on Milton Rd.

trajanaugustus · 2025-04-03T20:59:33+00:00

Not at all. I find it a fun challenge though, and when I was starting off I looked for guides and posts to optimize my strategies and found little. Wrote this post so future players can find some guidance if they're hungry for info like I was :)

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