Demo 0.3.1 - Patch notes — Sword & Banner Playtest Steam update #2596217

Diplomacy A faction that wants your land writes before it marches. It sends a demand naming a daily tribute, and a war only follows if you refuse or ignore it. Taking your first town no longer means a kingdom declaring on you out of nowhere a few days later What a faction demands is now worth having. Its price is set by what marching on you would actually win them, so refusing is a real decision rather than a formality. Pay it and no war comes while the payments are current Kings weigh a war in silver: what the best fief they could take is worth, what the campaign will cost them, and what it leaves open at home. A war has to pay for itself before it is worth starting, so nobody mobilises a realm for one hamlet A king will not walk out of a war he started with nothing to show for it. Suing for peace the same week is refused, and only becomes acceptable as the fighting drags on and wears h...