Whats the best way to make money?

[Blueberry Muffin]

I played the crap out of the original M&B and my way to make money was stealing stuff from villages and making sieges. Atm my army is not strong enough for a siege and looks like in Warband you get less food than in the original game from stealing the villages

How can I make tons of money? The very only way I have found is winning tournaments (4100 denars for winning a tournament and gambling 100 denars each fight, its a good deal) but I run out of money quickly and I cant find a way to make more money. Anyone can help me out?

[AxeKnight]

Buy enterprises. Start out by killing bandits in the north and selling their armour for your starting funds, then buy enterprises from each and every town so that you are never in that position again.

[terror923]

lies! the best way to make money is to start the game and go slowly towards success build your army to what your fund manages then buy a enterprise from a town grow your army more and buy another enterprise even at 100ish troops if you own all the enterprises youll have enough income to support a castle

other than enterprises my rankings would be
1. owning a town
owning a town you never get raided so you dont have to worry about defending it and you can even put minimal troops in it if a army does come by your faction will immediately counterreact or you can just tell a bunch of lords to attack in x direction

2. plundering towns/caravans while doing mercenary work
this is something you can do at any time of the game that the lords will allow you to join as a mercenary just goto the faction whos winning a war join as a mercenary loot the richest towns (look in location to see how wealthy a town is) once you suckled all the good towns tell your king you quit then go on the opposite faction and raid their towns if a lord happens to attack you just retreat to a closeby lord or just run away chances are no one will show up in time anyway

3 owning a castle
owning a castle can sometimes be a negative income since people use it to start their kingdom (put a bunch of troops in it then revolt) but it can be good income if you dont put a lot of troops in it

4. destroying bandits
nuff said

5. owning a village
villages always get plundered you can make a ton more money off bandits than the time it takes to protect a village

[St3amfails]

clubbing people over the head and selling them as slaves is pretty effective, especially considering the amount of people running around looking for fights

Long term, yes owning businesses and property is the key, but slave trading is a great starting point

[xxxfuntacionxxx]

Originally posted by St3amfails:

clubbing people over the head and selling them as slaves is pretty effective, especially considering the amount of people running around looking for fights

Long term, yes owning businesses and property is the key, but slave trading is a great starting point

I never thought I'd hear that sentence in my life but here we are LMAO

[stun]

old thread is old

the correct answer is to be in a 1man party so loot doesn't get diluted and hunt sea raiders for gear to sell, then buy businesses, then now that you have passive income maintain a larger force and capture a town

[Kamiyama]

Originally posted by stun:

old thread is old

the correct answer is to be in a 1man party so loot doesn't get diluted and hunt sea raiders for gear to sell, then buy businesses, then now that you have passive income maintain a larger force and capture a town

Is loot diluted by companions, or troops, or both?

[닝닝 공주님의 기사]

release remaster with coop option is best way to make money with little cost

[kharille]

Best get a city near bandits. Get everyone two handed maces and stack them in the city until the slave dealer arrives.

[stun]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

Is loot diluted by companions, or troops, or both?

Both. The player counts as 10 soldiers. Each companion counts as 3 soldiers. Non-companion soldiers all have 1 share, whether they're a knight or a farmer. Loot is divided evenly between these counts. So if you have 4 companions and 38 soldiers, you get 1/6 as much loot; both the items and the post-battle denars.

To wit, this is all accurate for warband (from https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/how-does-loot-really-work.348755/#post-8353561 ):

Long story short:
1) Total share = 10 + 3*Ncompanions + 1*Nsoldiers
Loot probability = 10*3*(Looting+10)*HeroPartyRole/(8*TotalShare)
HeroPartyRole = 1.0 if you fight an enemy alone (by "alone" I mean "just your own party"). 0.5 if you have an ally party of identical autocalc strength. Etc.
Loot probability is a value that is used by an engine in a mysterious way. No-one but those who have access to the engine can dig any deeper.
Items are looted from a pool of items that a troop has. The more copies of an item, the higher the chance to loot this item.
2) Troops are looted in the same order they are killed. The maximum buffer size is 288 items, so if you have a high Loot probability and a huge enemy party, you will not get all the loot, but only the loot from troops that were killed and looted first (the troop type is what matters since dead troops are stacked; so, for example, if you battle heretics, your first victim should be a demonic magnus, then a heretic magnus, then a heretic invoker, then a worshipper, and only then a minion; never kill a minion first, or your loot will be crap).
At the end of a battle 288 items are sorted by price and you get the most expensive 96 (or 93? I keep forgetting this number...).
3) Unique items don't loot.
The more expensive an item is, the lower the chance to loot it. An item that has a price of 10000 denars will have a roughly 7 times smaller probability to be looted than an item that's worth 10 denars.
Abundance does not affect looting chance.
A type of an item (like boots, gloves etc.) probably does not matter, but more tests are needed.
4) There is another thing.
If you fight a huge army consisting of one type of troops (like Rogue Knights) alone (for tests I just used a cheat key combination) or with a small party of allies (which means you have a very high loot probability), you will only get certain items but will never get other items. If you reduce the size of an enemy army, your loot will be more diverse.
Like:
400 knights => oh, I see morningstars, horses A, horses B, helmets C and shields D.
350 knight => now this + there are also bastard swords in the loot
300 knights => ... + there are also lances in the loot
250 knights => + there are also helmets E in the loot.
So there is also a certain sequence in which items are looted. But it's not based on abundance, price, position in item_kinds1.txt or position in a troop's item pool. I don't know what it is based on.

[Blueberry Muffin]

Ey yo I made this post back when I was in highschool. I have since moved to a different country, learned a new language, finished highschool, went to college, started a professional career, started and ended countless relationships, saw people come and go, and I'm still utter trash at making money in M&B

[ricklong]

Originally posted by Blueberry Muffin:

... and I'm still utter trash at making money in M&B

LOL but congrats on everything else.

FYI, just take some companions and have them kite sea raiders around the corners of the minimap while you pick them off with bow and spiked staff, The merchants in Rivacheg run out of cash from you selling all of the loot. I often have to store the best stuff in the easter-egg chest so I can sell it later. Then take use the money to buy a dye works in Rivacheg which will make a ton of cash every week.

[knaveofengland]

from start kill bandits then go to sea raiders use crossbow. tip against sea raiders fast horse ride in circles till they have no range weapons then crossbow them.
i normally get the heroes when i can outfit them with sea raiders gear , keep doing till you can have at least 100+ men or 300+ renown.
become a merc with any faction raid caravans and villages.
buy all the workshops and when you can have 150+ men then decide what you want to do.

[Machiavelli]

Loot a village

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Blueberry Muffin:

Ey yo I made this post back when I was in highschool. I have since moved to a different country, learned a new language, finished highschool, went to college, started a professional career, started and ended countless relationships, saw people come and go, and I'm still utter trash at making money in M&B

based for moving to usa