https://nwpublic.eu/ Mon, 25 May 2026 21:59:50 +0000 MyBB https://nwpublic.eu/thread-1661.html Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:36:14 +0000 Mask]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-1661.html
We're bringing back our memorial event for our beloved friend Black Knight, that passed away on the 27th of November 2020.

We want to remember him by playing on 2 servers this time so we can gather atleast 100 players!
The names of the 50 player slot servers are EU_Commander and EU_Commander Test.

The event will start on the 14th of November at 19:00 CET / 18:00 GMT UK time.

There is also a surprise stored for you all and that is a new historical map that we want to introduce after the memorial event so stay tuned for that!

We will gather on our Discord group in the voice channels, that way we can communicate with eachother during the event.
Our Discord link:
-->  https://discord.gg/d7FScH3

We hope to see you all on the event.

Sincerely,
EUC Admin Team]]>
We're bringing back our memorial event for our beloved friend Black Knight, that passed away on the 27th of November 2020.

We want to remember him by playing on 2 servers this time so we can gather atleast 100 players!
The names of the 50 player slot servers are EU_Commander and EU_Commander Test.

The event will start on the 14th of November at 19:00 CET / 18:00 GMT UK time.

There is also a surprise stored for you all and that is a new historical map that we want to introduce after the memorial event so stay tuned for that!

We will gather on our Discord group in the voice channels, that way we can communicate with eachother during the event.
Our Discord link:
-->  https://discord.gg/d7FScH3

We hope to see you all on the event.

Sincerely,
EUC Admin Team]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-891.html Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:54:35 +0000 Mask]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-891.html Hello everyone,






my colleagues and i want to organize an remembering gathering on the 26th of November this week on a Friday evening at 20:30 CET.





The reason of that day is that our former Head Admin Black Knight (Bojan) that has passed away on the 27th of November 2020 we want to remember him this way as it was a great aspect from him to play some EU Commander battle.







It will include Commander Battle gameplay with us were we can share and talk our thoughts of BK and with some competitive gameplay i'll recon it will be a night to remember.



If you are able to attend then please click on the thumbs up icon down of the description on our  Discord group if you can make it on a Friday evening on the 26th at 20:30 CET.



There is no hard feelings if you cannot make it.



On the day itself it will be publicly announced on Discord as everyone is welcome on the remembering gathering were we all meet up in one of the EUC voice channels.





NWP Discord group: https://discord.gg/HrrdXFJT3H




See you all this Friday!





Sincerely,

EUC Admin Team]]> Hello everyone,






my colleagues and i want to organize an remembering gathering on the 26th of November this week on a Friday evening at 20:30 CET.





The reason of that day is that our former Head Admin Black Knight (Bojan) that has passed away on the 27th of November 2020 we want to remember him this way as it was a great aspect from him to play some EU Commander battle.







It will include Commander Battle gameplay with us were we can share and talk our thoughts of BK and with some competitive gameplay i'll recon it will be a night to remember.



If you are able to attend then please click on the thumbs up icon down of the description on our  Discord group if you can make it on a Friday evening on the 26th at 20:30 CET.



There is no hard feelings if you cannot make it.



On the day itself it will be publicly announced on Discord as everyone is welcome on the remembering gathering were we all meet up in one of the EUC voice channels.





NWP Discord group: https://discord.gg/HrrdXFJT3H




See you all this Friday!





Sincerely,

EUC Admin Team]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-658.html Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:59:23 +0000 imkegta]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-658.html
It's link to my profile in Steam:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/imkegta/]]>
It's link to my profile in Steam:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/imkegta/]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-413.html Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:41:28 +0000 Superfleischboy]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-413.html
at rare occasions it can happen that players keep spamming the map vote. They create a vote for a map and if it gets rejected, they rejoin the server and do it all over again until the vote is accepted or he gets tired.

Should it be a punishable/bannable offense?]]>
at rare occasions it can happen that players keep spamming the map vote. They create a vote for a map and if it gets rejected, they rejoin the server and do it all over again until the vote is accepted or he gets tired.

Should it be a punishable/bannable offense?]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-327.html Tue, 16 Jun 2020 23:48:50 +0000 Aurdegos]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-327.html or should the admins because I'm pretty sure that not many people from the pleb roam this forum. Whatever.

Before this new year there was, as you know, a channel on the discord dedicated to achievements. When I asked where it was gone, Montgomery answered me "No one had really used it in quite a while and we wanted to tidy up the discord" (05/01/2020). I can understand the will to minimise the discord, since it has a big amount a people and a good number of channel in which the uninitiate can be lost.

However, some players start asking questions about how we can get a skin (the most recent I have in mind is LeBorain #1345964 yesterday (16/06/2020)). Moreover there's new fresh meat coming every month on the server, some didn't even knew what kind of server/gameplay was minisiege (ex recently : gonzo #1266544). These guys never heard of those kind of achievements and their reward.

So, I am here to ask you this : is it possible to bring back the achievments channel on discord ? Or if you want to keep it up like that, maybe a thread on general discussion, since there's achievements for Minisiege and EU_Commander. This way you could make a broadcast in those server for the forum, like for the discord, to maybe bring some people here. Now it's up to you

Thank you for reading (and as always, sorry for the bad english).
See you soon,
Cordially Aurdegos (Aurde)]]> or should the admins because I'm pretty sure that not many people from the pleb roam this forum. Whatever.

Before this new year there was, as you know, a channel on the discord dedicated to achievements. When I asked where it was gone, Montgomery answered me "No one had really used it in quite a while and we wanted to tidy up the discord" (05/01/2020). I can understand the will to minimise the discord, since it has a big amount a people and a good number of channel in which the uninitiate can be lost.

However, some players start asking questions about how we can get a skin (the most recent I have in mind is LeBorain #1345964 yesterday (16/06/2020)). Moreover there's new fresh meat coming every month on the server, some didn't even knew what kind of server/gameplay was minisiege (ex recently : gonzo #1266544). These guys never heard of those kind of achievements and their reward.

So, I am here to ask you this : is it possible to bring back the achievments channel on discord ? Or if you want to keep it up like that, maybe a thread on general discussion, since there's achievements for Minisiege and EU_Commander. This way you could make a broadcast in those server for the forum, like for the discord, to maybe bring some people here. Now it's up to you

Thank you for reading (and as always, sorry for the bad english).
See you soon,
Cordially Aurdegos (Aurde)]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-198.html Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:23:24 +0000 1steIvN_boc]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-198.html
Taleworlds is planning to release its long awaited follow-up to Mount & Blade Warband, Bannerlord, at the end of the month. It is explicitely not going to release "server files", i.e. the files server owners need to set up a Bannerlord gaming server.

Will a lack of server software kill M&B? That certainly appears to be the contention of a number of participants on https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?...ers.392115

What are the numbers?

As measured on 11 March 2020.

According to https://store.steampowered.com/stats/, Mount and Blade Warband is currently the 56th most popular game as measured by the number of people having played the game today.

This includes players both for MP and SP.

At the time of measuring (16:00 CET), 12,064 was the peak number of people playing today, but with most of the players being in Europe, that number should go up as schools and offices go out.

On http://www.mnbcentral.net, the Native and Napoleonic Wars mods are persistently the most popular. This only measures MP.

On 16:20, according to the master server list (of which the above server is a reflection), listed 686 players online. There were no major events going on. At this point in time, the number of players on Chinese servers was dropping and the number of players on European servers was rising. (Rotation of the planet relative to its closest star, yada yada yada.) I think we can estimate that around European event times there should be around 1,000 players on a server, most of which in Napoleonic Wars, because organised battles make the most sense there.

As many as 90 % of the M&B players could be SP players.

Minisiege, one of the most popular Napoleonic Wars public play servers, has had approximately 7,000 unique players since the restart of the leaderboard on 1 March 2020. I estimated this by looking at common names and looking at the ranking of players with the least kills and deaths (0 and 0, i.e. people who had logged on, looked and left) since the epoch.

https://nwp.caesim.id.lv/leaderboard

Note that though I am a Minisiege admin, I do not have perfect information.

The Taleworlds company page says the company employs a little over 90 developers; the company photo shows a little over 90 people (who may not all be developers).

https://www.taleworlds.com

There are no investor or press sections I could find on that website.

The average Turkish software developer makes 18,500 EURO per year.

The company seems to produce a single game, Mount & Blade - the most recent major incarnation of which, Warband, was published in 2010. Bannerlord was announced in 2012 and is scheduled for Early Access release this month.

According to Wikipedia, the game had sold 6 million copies as per July 2015.

"The post emphasizes that Taleworlds, unlike many other studios, isn't beholden to publishers, shareholders, or anyone else who might push it to cut back on features or scale in order to meet a schedule," according to PC Gamer.

Can 100 developers be paid for 10 years straight on the back of the proceeds of 6 million copies? Taleworlds is not "beholden" to stakeholders, i.e. investors, so presumably sales are their only source of income.

Salary to revenue ratio seems to be a bit of black magic, but 100 annual salaries of approximately 20,000 EURO over 10 years equal 20 million EURO. Copies of Mount and Blade have sold for wildly different prices, but even at an average of 10 EURO per copy, those 20 million EURO salary costs still fit comfortably inside 60 million EURO revenue. Note that the cost of doing business is much higher than just salaries; anywhere between 1:5 and 1:3 can be a healthy ratio from what 15-minute heroes on the internet tell me.

I think it is fair to say with the knowledge we have here, that if Bannerlord tanks, Taleworlds tank.

There are all manner of biases to be recognised in the numbers above that I do not want to go in right now. In the following I am simply going to assume that where a number describes players, that is a fairly accurate description of players, and where it says units sold, that too is a fairly accurate number of units sold.

Who does Taleworlds need to sell to?

i. Regular SP players.
ii. Regular MP players.
iii. Regular players of both SP and MP.
iv. Non-players or irregular players (i.e. people who buy the game based on hype or reviews, try it one or two times and then cast it aside).

I do not know what the retention rate is of M&B, but 6 million copies suggest that a lot of players may fall in that last category (iv) of Irregular Players.

Only categories ii and iii will be playing the events that require server software. I cautiously predict that ignoring those groups will mean little to the success of Bannerlord. Categories i, ii and iv (including new players for these categories) are all the intended target audience for Bannerlord and may buy the game regardless of how little love the clans (regiments in NW-speak) get from Taleworlds.

Since statistics are just another word for lies, and since all of the above is tentative or incomplete, I am probably WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING. Have at it.]]>
Taleworlds is planning to release its long awaited follow-up to Mount & Blade Warband, Bannerlord, at the end of the month. It is explicitely not going to release "server files", i.e. the files server owners need to set up a Bannerlord gaming server.

Will a lack of server software kill M&B? That certainly appears to be the contention of a number of participants on https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?...ers.392115

What are the numbers?

As measured on 11 March 2020.

According to https://store.steampowered.com/stats/, Mount and Blade Warband is currently the 56th most popular game as measured by the number of people having played the game today.

This includes players both for MP and SP.

At the time of measuring (16:00 CET), 12,064 was the peak number of people playing today, but with most of the players being in Europe, that number should go up as schools and offices go out.

On http://www.mnbcentral.net, the Native and Napoleonic Wars mods are persistently the most popular. This only measures MP.

On 16:20, according to the master server list (of which the above server is a reflection), listed 686 players online. There were no major events going on. At this point in time, the number of players on Chinese servers was dropping and the number of players on European servers was rising. (Rotation of the planet relative to its closest star, yada yada yada.) I think we can estimate that around European event times there should be around 1,000 players on a server, most of which in Napoleonic Wars, because organised battles make the most sense there.

As many as 90 % of the M&B players could be SP players.

Minisiege, one of the most popular Napoleonic Wars public play servers, has had approximately 7,000 unique players since the restart of the leaderboard on 1 March 2020. I estimated this by looking at common names and looking at the ranking of players with the least kills and deaths (0 and 0, i.e. people who had logged on, looked and left) since the epoch.

https://nwp.caesim.id.lv/leaderboard

Note that though I am a Minisiege admin, I do not have perfect information.

The Taleworlds company page says the company employs a little over 90 developers; the company photo shows a little over 90 people (who may not all be developers).

https://www.taleworlds.com

There are no investor or press sections I could find on that website.

The average Turkish software developer makes 18,500 EURO per year.

The company seems to produce a single game, Mount & Blade - the most recent major incarnation of which, Warband, was published in 2010. Bannerlord was announced in 2012 and is scheduled for Early Access release this month.

According to Wikipedia, the game had sold 6 million copies as per July 2015.

"The post emphasizes that Taleworlds, unlike many other studios, isn't beholden to publishers, shareholders, or anyone else who might push it to cut back on features or scale in order to meet a schedule," according to PC Gamer.

Can 100 developers be paid for 10 years straight on the back of the proceeds of 6 million copies? Taleworlds is not "beholden" to stakeholders, i.e. investors, so presumably sales are their only source of income.

Salary to revenue ratio seems to be a bit of black magic, but 100 annual salaries of approximately 20,000 EURO over 10 years equal 20 million EURO. Copies of Mount and Blade have sold for wildly different prices, but even at an average of 10 EURO per copy, those 20 million EURO salary costs still fit comfortably inside 60 million EURO revenue. Note that the cost of doing business is much higher than just salaries; anywhere between 1:5 and 1:3 can be a healthy ratio from what 15-minute heroes on the internet tell me.

I think it is fair to say with the knowledge we have here, that if Bannerlord tanks, Taleworlds tank.

There are all manner of biases to be recognised in the numbers above that I do not want to go in right now. In the following I am simply going to assume that where a number describes players, that is a fairly accurate description of players, and where it says units sold, that too is a fairly accurate number of units sold.

Who does Taleworlds need to sell to?

i. Regular SP players.
ii. Regular MP players.
iii. Regular players of both SP and MP.
iv. Non-players or irregular players (i.e. people who buy the game based on hype or reviews, try it one or two times and then cast it aside).

I do not know what the retention rate is of M&B, but 6 million copies suggest that a lot of players may fall in that last category (iv) of Irregular Players.

Only categories ii and iii will be playing the events that require server software. I cautiously predict that ignoring those groups will mean little to the success of Bannerlord. Categories i, ii and iv (including new players for these categories) are all the intended target audience for Bannerlord and may buy the game regardless of how little love the clans (regiments in NW-speak) get from Taleworlds.

Since statistics are just another word for lies, and since all of the above is tentative or incomplete, I am probably WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING. Have at it.]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-70.html Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:38:16 +0000 Gretel]]> https://nwpublic.eu/thread-70.html Submit your suggesstions and bug reports for our website under this thread.

List of known bugs:
- White themed quotes and code
- Default text size should be slightly larger
- "Awards" Section, when a user has website awards. are displayed above the awards text rather than below
- Awards sort from bottom up, not top down (very minor but annoys me)]]> Submit your suggesstions and bug reports for our website under this thread.

List of known bugs:
- White themed quotes and code
- Default text size should be slightly larger
- "Awards" Section, when a user has website awards. are displayed above the awards text rather than below
- Awards sort from bottom up, not top down (very minor but annoys me)]]>