Loot Yield and Party size

[Robin of Spiritwood]

Someone had asked if bigger parties give more loot.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835408806
This is maybe 3 times more than a small 5 unit force.

This is a 20+ sized combat force with animals, playing Free Mode scaling.
The drawback of course is the wages. Nevertheless, if careful in combat, it is profitable to fight with a medium-large party. You can see our current Krown balance at 95000.

[Greedogre]

this is good, in fact anything encourage bigger party size is great, since the class and many mechanism of the game is rather dull when stand alone. personally i think fun start to have when there are bigger party size when you start to fight in a combination of small group of characters.

[Goox]

Bigger size requires: more wage, more food, more time to clear a battle - so, agree that the devs should design some ways to encourage/compensate for those facts.

[Kerensky]

Interesting.

I was running with 7 warriors for a long time, I should have documented better some loot rewards at that number.

Recently added two rogues who just sit in the back of the battlefield and generate VP with the 'out of combat adjacent to ally' trait.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835632314

Got what is probably the best cloth armor I have seen so far, level 10 yellow double sockets.
Too busy oogling this armor to properly have capture the entire loot list. heh

I'll screencap some more battles today and see how loot sits with this group of 11 combat units. 7 actual characters, 2 animals, 2 non fighting combatants.

[Kerensky]

So here is the result of about an hour's worth of slaughter. All I have time for before work.

First two combats were very sad, an easy and medium tavern contract.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835671091
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835671104

Fighting a few police patrols wasn't much better, but a little better.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835671110
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835671122
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835671133

This very hard contract was quite stingy on rewards
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835671146

But this weapon merchant was a triple blue with 2 stolen goods
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835671158

So small teams definitely good at quick battles, but need a lot of battles to get a lot of loot. I imagine a very large team battle takes considerably longer.

In the end it probably balances out. Small team fights more and gets less, large team fights less and gets more.

But I notice as battles get larger, the scattering of enemies into small pockets is quite annoying. I much prefer a cluster of enemies all together than 4 packs of 4 all scattered all over the place. That's annoying to have to chase down, especially in like a swamp fight.

[Kerensky]

Im also on default difficulty. I wonder how difficulty change affects loot. It would be unfortunate if it did, because there's no way to change difficulty mid campaign, only can be set on starting a brand new game yea?

[Kerensky]

I just fought at least 28, possible more, Guards all at once, thanks to the new Wanted system.

It is just raining loot with that many enemies.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2838517332

Blue quality armor, a ++ two socket armor, three weapons, and a shield.

[Kerensky]

I feel like a band of 12 generates a decent amount of loot.

But it is painfully clear that you need to take on huge amounts of enemies to really make the loot rain. The guards with their extra 2 waves of troops has made that painfully clear.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2842319854

[Robin of Spiritwood]

Some really great loot, and useful hard data too. I like it.