How do I increase a town prosperity?

[Elvis]

Thanks in advance :)

[T R A I T O R]

do quests for them, but do ALOT of quests, and make sure the trade routes are free of bandit scum and enemy lords and don't let it's villages be raided

[Elvis]

Ok thanks, I start doing the quests :)

[T R A I T O R]

ok

[T R A I T O R]

happy to help

but remember! powerful lords come before towns! if the town wants you to tell Cound Delinard and um... Boyar Meriga to screw off about a war, don't do it, because they can have big armies, and may be really important assets for your own empire.

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

I am guessing the town is your fief? Quests help because prosperity goes directly with how much your plebs like you, also patrol your territory. Make sure those peasents get to the city to trade!

[Meadows]

Do quests for villiage elders or guild masters. Kill bandits and protect the traders you see walking around your feif. Build a mill.

[Chill°bucket]

Do also quests for all villages in the surrounding, not only from the city, keep the region free from bandits and clear the caravan routes from bandits. If the caravans don't reach your destination city it can't prosper (prosperous villages and clean caravan routes are most important I think). Make a production facility in the city. If you have money buy armor and other things.

[Dragonrubi]

Hmmm… I was googling for the same question and came here.

I am not sure if the “quest theory” is right.

I did a lot of quests to my fief and I have a +47 relation with them and when I ask they say they are fine they love me. However I received the message that my village gone from poor to very poor :(

I also don’t see raiders around there.

So why my town devolved?

[Miiiiiiiiiiiiike]

Originally posted by dragonrubi:

So why my town devolved?

Do the farmers reach the markets at towns/castles, or are they attacked by bandits.

Villages can just go through bad times, for some reason or another.

Have you made a bakery/mill in your village which increases prosperity by 5%. That will help a little.

Overall, villages always go up and down in prosperity ratings.

[Isha]

1) Stop them from being pillaged by the enemy
2) Hunt down bandits and enemies that will try to kill the peasants as they go to their town to trade
3) Do missions (get them grain, cattle, train them)
4) Kill bandits if they've infested the town

If you do all those things your village will become rich and stay there.

[Dragonrubi]

Done all that, yet instead of evolve my village devolved.

In the official forum I found this, makes sense to me so no case to keep working in prosperity if this is right :/

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=85421.0

doing quests, purchasing improvements, gaurding the villagers as they travel to town and back, and checking in regularly to make sure they aren't beset by bandits, as well as keeping enemy lords from raiding them are all ways to improve or maintain prsoperity, allegedly purchasing goods from them also improves their value, but i can't confirm this

unfortunately, they are all ultimately pointless. its far too easy to for a villages economy to tank, to the point of being a certainty. even if you pursue it to the exclusion of the rest of the game its likely your village will still decline in value or at best, not increase in value. its a lost cause, and not worth the effort. a prosperous village really doesn't grant much over a poor one, not to be worth the investment in time and money.

I would strongly advise against even trying, sure do the quests and purchase the improvements, but not to make them more prosperous, instead to increase relations for recruiting soldiers, to gain experience, or because the improvement provides a needed benefit.

you may notice NPC towns doing quite well and gaining propserity, unfortunately its because they don't play by anything close to the same rules as you. so you can't use them as an example. where the player is concerned, its not an aspect of the game that was ever completed

[Isha]

I think village prosperity is also tied to its town. So if all the other villages are doing poorly and the caravans from the town are getting killed it will affect your village. Just a guess.

[Miiiiiiiiiiiiike]

I think it also depends if the faction you are with is in a lot of wars, doing poorly as a whole or not etc etc.

I guess you are playing vanilla warband. Certain mods may change aspects.

[Denouncedlord]

the wiki said the villages surrounding tthe town changed the prosperity of the town itself

[› Fae Viking Princess]

Originally posted by ClassyDots:

happy to help

but remember! powerful lords come before towns! if the town wants you to tell Cound Delinard and um... Boyar Meriga to screw off about a war, don't do it, because they can have big armies, and may be really important assets for your own empire.

I've never had negative relations for ending a war unless I use my relations with them. If you have the money and persuation it's much better to end the war that way.