Should I do the Dragon Banner quest?

[SeattlePoliceman]

I have both pieces of the banner and about 100 days left to pick a side. But I can't tell if the pros outweigh the cons.

The conspiracy system just seems annoying from what I've read about it, but I have also read that the dragon banner quest is the only way to start your own faction (which I think is really stupid).

I've also read that you can just stay with another kingdom after accepting the quest, which makes it seem even more redundant as you can just stay sided with a kingdom even without starting it.

In your opinion, is the main quest worth doing?

[GIJoe597]

Originally posted by SeattlePoliceman:

In your opinion, is the main quest worth doing?

No.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Another 'No' vote here.

The cool kids know that this main quest is fubar, so they ignore it. They play campaign and rescue their siblings, then they blow off Neretzes' Folly and let it expire. No harm, no foul, no problem. They then play it like a sandbox, which is what it really is. You can still establish your own kingdom when the time comes without doing that main quest, and there are better banners to be had.

Be a cool kid. Don't let that main quest grind you down. It brings naught but heartbreak and despair.

[RJboxer]

Originally posted by GIJoe597:

Originally posted by SeattlePoliceman:

In your opinion, is the main quest worth doing?

No.

no to OP.

Agree with This reply

[Supply Side Jesus]

No. Avoid at all costs. Rescue your brother and never touch it again.

[Claytonium]

I did it once. I'll probably never do it again unless the devs fundamentally change it. You can indeed start your own kingdom without doing that quest.

[Action Man]

Skip the quest. Play it as sanbox. Conquer the world. Then watch the ending cutscene on Youtube if you're really curious.

[󠀡󠀡]

@op ,no, just dont.

[Ruffio]

If you well prepped for it, why not? If you rush to start the quest with a newly formed kingdom and one fief? No you shouldn't -)

[SeattlePoliceman]

Thank you for all the replies. The main quest is a steaming pile of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from what I've gathered here so I'll definitely just avoid it.

[CoffeeBro]

Don't do the main quest lol. Pure torture. The sandbox game is very fun.
So start in sandbox or main story, but don't do anything with the banners.

[RJboxer]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

If you well prepped for it, why not? If you rush to start the quest with a newly formed kingdom and one fief? No you shouldn't -)

You know your theory "Just conquer almost everything before hand" is not believed by... well anyone, right?

You have 20 years.. U mean to tell me you are capturing almost ALL of empire, or ALL of non empire in 20 years?

Ummm no.

But it is a good theory, I agree.

+1

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by RJboxer:

Originally posted by Ruffio:

If you well prepped for it, why not? If you rush to start the quest with a newly formed kingdom and one fief? No you shouldn't -)

You know your theory "Just conquer almost everything before hand" is not believed by... well anyone, right?

You have 20 years.. U mean to tell me you are capturing almost ALL of empire, or ALL of non empire in 20 years?

Ummm no.

But it is a good theory, I agree.

+1

Who says you should capture it all? What keep you from help others capture it, purpose is to reduce their strenght to be much more managable size. I don't think you realize how much you can influence the "who owns what" just working as a merc before you even embark at that stage.

If you more or less capture one of the empires before, and then prior helped reduce the others its more or less a cake walk compared to rush the thing as soon as you get one fief and form a kingdom.

In my current campaign just being a merc for the Aserai I put like most of Vlandia in the Aserai dungeons while Aserai doing land grabs. Of course then Aserai made peace because why not when they are on a steamroll right? sigh.

Once you ready to embark on gather fiefs before start a kingdom, make sure you got the perks from scout and riding that reduce chance of prisoners escape. You can with some grind end up with majority of their nobles as prisoners in your party and then its just a breeze to start take over fiefs with little interference at all. Maybe playstyle not for everyone, but I find its working fine for me -)

[xao2099]

I've only completed it once but,it was for the empire and it went pretty easy and went quick but, trying to make my own and helping make someone else a "non-empire" kingdom seems almost impossible unless you take out a huge chunk of the empire first before starting that part of quest.I would usually just ignore the rest after rescuing my fam.