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Plot Lords aims to improve the questing system of the game by adding fresh new quests to break the monotony and repetitiveness of the current quests. Have fun trying out new tasks and figuring out new ways to accomplish them. The new quests coexist with the regular quests so you don't have to worry about losing anything Bannerlord provides.
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Plot Lords aims to improve the questing system of the game. It adds brand-new quests that are coexistent with the regular ones, making sure you can experience both of them.
While playing the game (and at the start of a new campaign) the quest will slowly be attributed by the game to NPC's. To represent when one of these quests are added, a message in chat will appear with the name of the settlement the quest was added to.
Besides that, in the menu screen, a new option is added: "Pre-add quests". Like the name implies, this pre-adds the quests to the campaign. It doesn't have much impact on high-end computers but might help with lag while playing the game on a slower computer.
How many quests can the mod provide? Well, close to infinite, actually. This can happen because while you're playing with the mod, the quests are being procedurally generated. There's an algorithm that takes a Motivation from an NPC, and starting from a set of Strategies, Rules and Actions a tree like quest is formed and given to the NPC so that the NPC can then give it to the player. The quests can feature subquests and alternative ways to be completed.
This mod is the final product of a university thesis on game development and artificial intelligence, and as of the 23rd of November 2021 it has been completed and delivered. To everyone that helped by playing with the mod, submitting crash reports, commenting and filling out the questionnaire, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. It has been a journey to reach this point and your feedback was very helpful.
With that said, I will no longer support this mod and no further updates will be released. If someone wants to keep updating the mod, you're free to do so, just remember to properly credit me. This is the github for the mod. The code is a mess and is not commented, good luck. Any questions, I'm free on discord to answer questions.
If you run into any trouble or if you want to get in touch with the creator or other members of the community then join our discord server and choose orange to be redirected to the Plot Lords discord rooms where the creator publishes announcements and patch notes, and where you can chat.
Installation:
We recommend that you install the files manually by copying the plot lords module into the game's modules.
Updating the mod:
The best way to update the mod is to just drag the new folder into the modules folder and replace the files windows says are in conflict.
If you create a new folder for the new version you will have to copy the files in the "SaveFiles" folder from the old version to the same folder in the new version.
It's also highly advisable that you press the "Pre-Add Quests" button after updating.
If you don't deal with the save files from update to update, the mod will cancel any ongoing quests that don't have their save files so that the game doesn't crash.
Uninstalling the mod:
It's now possible to uninstall the mod without it crashing.
While in-game, you just need to press CTRL+K, this will delete all the created issues and cancel the ongoing quests. Then, without moving, just save and exit. Afterwards, leave the game and disable/uninstall the mod.
WARNING:
Even though it has been thoroughly tested, the mod still contains some bugs, so play at your own risk. Why does the mod even crash? The short answer is: my mod is trying to grab something, chosen from a random list provided by Bannerlord itself, but then, for some reason, that something ends up being null, or some property ends up being null, so the mod crashes.
Thank you very much for playing this mod!
More Mods:
Want to try even more mods? Check out the ones created by my colleagues!
Cunning Lords
Friendly Lords
General Lords
New Lords
While playing the game (and at the start of a new campaign) the quest will slowly be attributed by the game to NPC's. To represent when one of these quests are added, a message in chat will appear with the name of the settlement the quest was added to.
Besides that, in the menu screen, a new option is added: "Pre-add quests". Like the name implies, this pre-adds the quests to the campaign. It doesn't have much impact on high-end computers but might help with lag while playing the game on a slower computer.
How many quests can the mod provide? Well, close to infinite, actually. This can happen because while you're playing with the mod, the quests are being procedurally generated. There's an algorithm that takes a Motivation from an NPC, and starting from a set of Strategies, Rules and Actions a tree like quest is formed and given to the NPC so that the NPC can then give it to the player. The quests can feature subquests and alternative ways to be completed.
This mod is the final product of a university thesis on game development and artificial intelligence, and as of the 23rd of November 2021 it has been completed and delivered. To everyone that helped by playing with the mod, submitting crash reports, commenting and filling out the questionnaire, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. It has been a journey to reach this point and your feedback was very helpful.
With that said, I will no longer support this mod and no further updates will be released. If someone wants to keep updating the mod, you're free to do so, just remember to properly credit me. This is the github for the mod. The code is a mess and is not commented, good luck. Any questions, I'm free on discord to answer questions.
Installation:
We recommend that you install the files manually by copying the plot lords module into the game's modules.
Updating the mod:
The best way to update the mod is to just drag the new folder into the modules folder and replace the files windows says are in conflict.
If you create a new folder for the new version you will have to copy the files in the "SaveFiles" folder from the old version to the same folder in the new version.
It's also highly advisable that you press the "Pre-Add Quests" button after updating.
If you don't deal with the save files from update to update, the mod will cancel any ongoing quests that don't have their save files so that the game doesn't crash.
Uninstalling the mod:
It's now possible to uninstall the mod without it crashing.
While in-game, you just need to press CTRL+K, this will delete all the created issues and cancel the ongoing quests. Then, without moving, just save and exit. Afterwards, leave the game and disable/uninstall the mod.
WARNING:
Even though it has been thoroughly tested, the mod still contains some bugs, so play at your own risk. Why does the mod even crash? The short answer is: my mod is trying to grab something, chosen from a random list provided by Bannerlord itself, but then, for some reason, that something ends up being null, or some property ends up being null, so the mod crashes.
Thank you very much for playing this mod!
More Mods:
Want to try even more mods? Check out the ones created by my colleagues!
Cunning Lords
Friendly Lords
General Lords
New Lords