Living Wanderers - AI Overhaul

LIVING WANDERERS

GETTING STARTED

Install, load a campaign. Defaults: 150 wanderers alive at once, hiring from 400 to 28,000 gold, 8 companions plus 4 per clan tier. Wanderers already in your save are converted, so no new game.

Mod Options opens on a Playstyle dropdown: Close to vanilla, Balanced, Crowded world, Rare and formidable, Leave my settings alone. Pick one and press Apply. Under it sit 73 settings in 15 groups.

FEATURES

Each has its own switch.

[]🎭  Eleven trades. Archer, Berserker, Captain, Wandering Knight, Surgeon, Explorer, Slinger, Engineer, Merchant, Master Blacksmith, Veteran. Each sets skill bands (130 to 180 in its craft, under 20 where it has none), attributes, focus, build, armour, weapons and mount.[/]

[]🎲  Rarity and gender lean with the trade. Veteran is 13. 3% of births, Captain 2. 4%. A Berserker is three times likelier to be a man, a Slinger three times likelier to be a woman.[/]

[]📖  Encyclopedia portraits. Four sentences per wanderer, drawn from 16 origins, 22 trades, 10 temperaments and 5 standings, seeded from the character so it never changes between readings.[/]

[]💰  Pricing. Skills 45% of the weight, attributes 20%, traits 17%, age 10%, equipment 8%. From 45 years old the price drops up to 15%, and relation is worth up to a third of the difference. Every weight is a slider.[/]

[]⚜️  Role bonuses. Wanderers lift the party carrying them, scaling with how many of that trade are aboard: Surgeon healing, Wandering Knight map speed on land, Merchant wages, Captain morale, Master Blacksmith training, Explorer raid loot, Berserker and Archer damage dealt, Veteran and Slinger damage taken, Engineer siege construction. Lord parties get this too, not only yours.[/]

[]👥  Companion limit. Optional override: 8 plus 4 per clan tier, so a tier 3 clan holds 20.[/]

[]🏰  AI recruitment. Lords hire from the same taverns you do: a daily check, 15% chance of acting, paid from their own treasury, never below 25,000 gold left over. They pay about 10% less than you. A hired wanderer is gone.[/]

[]🤝  Poaching, two roads. Talk to a companion directly and name a price, about 1. 5x the open rate. Or open the subject with the lord who employs them, hear his list, and settle on one: about 1. 75x, and he names the figure. A born clan member runs about 3x. Either way it costs 5 relation with that clan, and lords poach each other on the same terms.[/]

[*]🎁  Gifts. An item or gold raises relation, roughly one a week each. Each trade wants different things, they will tell you