I only have limited hours to play in so so far haven't made it to the new world and haven't become even a faction Lord as of yet so can only comment on so muchI only encountered them in passing on my Merchant character, I found them friendly and courteous.. at first I was worried they'd confiscate my properties and bar me entry to their captured cities. But not they were very nice to me as a lowly JourneymanThey have held onto their cities so far for that game, they own most of the cities/castles in the far east of the map, the Argonic Empire has been wiped out (not sure how that happened) their furthest west holding is one of the old swadian castles off dhirim, they are about as powerful as a standard main factionHard to pick... I'll go for something really inane but something I really like, the ability to purchase property in towns you can walk around in and rent out. It gives me something to aim for past sitting on a big pile of gold. This includes building farms! I only wish you could rest at farms so i'd have somewhere to retire when reading/resting in game.Other than the standard Native gripes I don't like the tournaments, they are weak and seem a bit "tacked on" and could do with re-development using the current system of a base model.It sucks when you win a tournament to get a lovely turd of "Fine Turquoise" when the person who comes 2nd place get's a helmet that's mere value is thrice the main prize. And as i've moaned in the other threads the enemies (who are not Lords or Companions) are ridiculously over powered and make it distinctly un-fun.So far i've only seen the enemy use a cannon which made me jump when an explosion went off in front of me as I wasn't aware they were any more than eye candy. I also pulled off a great shot with a musket taking out the canoneer! i'll be sure to try them out soon.It's better than in earlier versions, it can feel a bit blocky at times (The invisible walls when harvesting), and sometimes it does not seem to work (had that issue with sawing wood) overall I like it as it expands warband in "non-combatant" areas and fleshes out the world increasing atmosphere, something Mount and Blade and most mods so far have failed to do and end up stale and repetitive after a while.The only other mod that has achieved this in anyway to my knowledge is Persistent World, and I think your system is a good compromise when it comes to singleplayer resource gatheringNot got this far yet!no idea, I have to press SHIFT + F12 everytime I start to remove the annoying blur effect which makes it look like I forgot to wear my glasses (I don't even wear glasses), so I don't know if this disables whatever these are.I have used the volley fire, it is very satisfying watching a mass of crossbowmen fire at once! However I don't like the numpad based abilities. I remember that being a mod in the original mount and blade and I think the Silverstag system is preferable.These forumsI play with the music off so I can listen to audiobooks/watch things whilst I playIt's easier than Clash of Kings but harder than Native. Though it doesn't really compare as i've also noticed in this game that as fast as it's fortunes go they disappear due to the mass of outlets for money above just trying to buy the best equipment and pay an army.I will update my signature here at some point I reckon