As in Native Warband, it becomes a grind. Once the player character has found the best equipment, conquered a couple of factions, and taken out most of the Unique Spawns, there isn't all that much of interest left. My view is that, by the time CKOs become truly great most players will have burned out on PoP. 3.12.1 As Knight Companion (KB) 3.13 Appointment to the Order of Merit (OM) 3.14 Appointment to the Order of the Star of India. Cities with knighthood orders randomly spawn small patrols of that. 3.9 Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter 3.10 Knight Companion of the Order of the Thistle 3.11 Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) 3.12 Appointment to the Order of the Bath. It takes years of game-time to get something going that is only 10% better than what we can get within the first year or so. /rebates/&252fbest-knighthood-order-pendor. Help the knighthood order in the field after theyve joined battle with a third faction. /rebates/&252fbest-knighthood-order-pendor. For example, I captured both Elf-lords and unlocked their equipment, but wasn't impressed with the selection when my CKs finally had the stats to equip it (the armor was Noldor Ancient Plate, which wasn't even Reinforced let alone Lordly). And we can unlock equipment for our CKO as well (some of which is unique), but it isn't much better than what top-tier Adventurers have.

It's something like a 10 million outlay to develop Knights that aren't much better than top-tier Adventurers. What happens is, we assign companions to auto-train them for months on end after which, we throw money their way to progressively up-tier their stats. By that I mean, we don't get to actually train our custom Knights on the battlefield.

While the Knighthood Orders are a passable concept, the CKO for the player is not implemented well.

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