I like the new strat A LOT, real solid job.
Some really tedious parts are gone, like all thine hard work, and less harassing people to round up resources.
The system where you buy goods off fiefs themselves, and people generate gold/troops wherever is fantastic. No longer do we have to tell people to stay in town, and login every few days to transfer goods/troops, now we can just say take your party and get into the wild and do some trading/raiding, so everyone in clan actually has involvement and is active on map doing actual productive things and are much more enthusiastic about strat. Before we couldn't get more than a handful of people to bother to login once a week to avoid warping, now everyone is checking map at least once a day.
So basically, much less burden on clan admins, much more for everyone else to do. I can just tell people go out and trade and make money and don't have to worry about inefficiencies. Don't have to worry about gear smithing either, it's all set up in a town shop. The transfer menus are no longer a nightmare either which is nice. Don't have to put together mega-caravans, with 2000-3000 goods and 800 man escort, I have a feeling these freight train caravans will be obsolete, no fiefs will be able to handle that much S&D dumps. When we go to war, people can upgrade their armies by themselves too, recruit their own troops, and then go buy their own gear, and then go out and raid/fight.
A lot of comments about raiding, I would say they should loot goods/gear out of towncentre. You could also have option to do quick raid vs thourough raid, the latter raids visitors too, but they also get included in fight. One thing tho, people who raid should not be allowed to go right into the fief they just raided and sell the stuff they just acquired. Need to be flagged for at least 48 hours so that's impossible.
