Best source of money is battle loot. Fight more battles, sell more loot, ransom more prisoners.

Growing fiefs takes a long time.

If you cannot make money in this game, it's not the game that sucks.

for noobs :
cheatengine.

for newbs : kill enemies - sell loot.
(forest bandits are cheap upkeep for the power they bring..)

+ you can do some trade.. use a guide to find optimal buy & sell cities and prices

but my main unlimited moneyprinter is the breeder perk..

Originalmente postado por Uncle D4NG3R:

Can't make money through economy because this game sucks balls

Get yourself 4 companions/family members with over 100 in one-handed or two-handed. Go to any city with a tournament and you can win noble horses that you can sell for up to 20k each. Save scum until you get one if you want to; there's 4 noble horses that sell in the 15k-20k range so it shouldn't take long. This should not only level up your melee skills, but also increase your renown and wealth pretty quickly so your clan can level up. This is important.

Once your clan level up a bit get 5 more companions/family members for a total of 9 with over 100 in melee skills. Then you can get the highest tier rewards from tournaments, with helmets that sell for up to 60k each. You basically don't have to worry about money at that point.

This shouldn't be hard; your brother is already over 100 in most combat skills. Once you get about 100k from selling tournament rewards, buy yourself and your brother spouses with good combat skills from other clans. This alone will get you three fighters without costing you any companion spots. Unfortunately the player for some reason never counts as a champion, so only companions/family members will work.

There's also A LOT of tournaments around. Ask the tournament master at any arena if you're having trouble finding one.

Also buy trade goods and sell them as you go from city to city. Depending on your route, you should buy what the next town you're going to DOESN'T have (just check the produces of it's trade bound villages), and that almost always will net you a profit, even if they're extremely close to each other. This will level up your trade skill which allows you to sell stuff for more.

Also bet on all of your tournaments. You will be top of the arena leaderboard pretty quickly if you go with this strategy, but it'll still get you plenty of extra money early on.

What are you doing that's such a drain on your wealth? Making money is quite easy in this game even without doing cheese like some people have recommended.

I'm going to assume your issue is that you fully upgrade every soldier and over do things with garrisons as that's the norm for people that complain about this? I'm a huge fan of not over upgrading troops, or over recruiting depending on what you are doing. To me the game is also far more fun when you have real fair battles rather than running around with a massive maxed out army while you abuse the AI.

If you are still in the early game hunting bandits keep your troop count low and only upgrade troops enough so losses are not problematic. Personally I go with around 20 men at T2-T3, they are cheap, easy to replace, and plenty for taking out bandits.

Once I become a mercenary I get more troops (around 30-40) but I still keep them around T3 with my focus being on hunting bandits and joining battles between lords. The mercenary contract alone pays for your army + recruits with plenty left over and battle loot should quickly make you plenty of coin at this point.

As I become a newbie Lord I will have around 60 men in my army and keep most at T3 with a portion being at T4 and maybe a few at T5. At this point I'm part of a faction and will build workshops that profit me more than the cost of my army as it's not fully upgraded. Soon as I get settlements I fill them with t3 troops and make a profit on all of them. Battle loot gets better and as my clan level grows along with my skills I expand my army. It's really only when I'm a king and moving into the endgame when I use a larger number of fully upgraded troops. I try to keep my army comparable to other lords around my level so things make sense.

At no point past the early game do I lose money with my armies compared to what I passively earn so I have plenty of gold.

With the Roguery skill you get more battle loot and with trade you can sell the loot you get for more coin. While I'm no fan of Tournament spam they are a good source of income with no risk. Trade is also not bad if you know what you are doing, If I know I can pick up cheap goods that sell for a profit while I'm traveling I will make sure to look out for good deals.

Lords have some easy missions that pay very well, for example I always keep some of the horses the lords of my nation ask for as it's a quick and massive profit.

Just take your time, don't over upgrade, over recruit, or worry about buying the best equipment right away and gold will never be an issue.

I honestly don't recommend playing as a mercenary. You might get some money early, but getting to clan tier 3 is easy enough, and once you're tier 3 you can join factions as an actual member and get land. Fiefs are by far the most stable form of long-term investment in this game.

Uh yes you can. I have done it multiple playthroughs.
Here's some things yo
Do you have the trade perks/level? That helps a lot.
Are you trading the right stuff for each city (each city has specialized productions)
Are you checking what workshops are located in the city? That matters.
Do you check the prices comparing to prices in the other cities?

I'm not even sure why you have trouble making money in bannerlord. Smithing -> Using perks that increase the sale price of crafted gear.. -> then make javelins, buy pugios and tribesman throwing knives and smelt them down for mats.. It's literally overpowered.

Also if you're trying to merch, as in buy low from one settlement, sell high in another, you're going to need perks that increase your speed, and then buy horses for your troops to ride on, but there are perks to increase party speed through infantry troops i believe. Check the skill trees if you are still lost. You should be investing in the trade skill no matter what if you're trying to make money through that part of the game.

Originalmente postado por Oedipus's Stepdad:

I honestly don't recommend playing as a mercenary. You might get some money early, but getting to clan tier 3 is easy enough, and once you're tier 3 you can join factions as an actual member and get land. Fiefs are by far the most stable form of long-term investment in this game.

merc is the only way to play bannerlord till max clan tier 6.
fiefs are a joke for income, its nothing

a merc get 5-10k daily income and can sell billion loot and prisoners.
you jump from one battle to the next every second (you can always leave a kingdom).

if you have woundet troops, free some prisoners of a enemy party or fief...
you never have a downtime like when you play vassal.

Be a blacksmith and become a bagijillionare by lvl 3. No need for any other sources, really. Just lots and lots of firewood.

Originalmente postado por Yerahmeel:

Be a blacksmith and become a bagijillionare by lvl 3. No need for any other sources, really. Just lots and lots of firewood.

Too bad you have to run from town to town every .5sec after you've managed to unlock a recipe that prints money... because Town are apparently not made out of it lol.

BUT.... but you're 100% right, smithing is a money maker.

Originalmente postado por Dropdead:

Originalmente postado por Yerahmeel:

Be a blacksmith and become a bagijillionare by lvl 3. No need for any other sources, really. Just lots and lots of firewood.

Too bad you have to run from town to town every .5sec after you've managed to unlock a recipe that prints money... because Town are apparently not made out of it lol.

BUT.... but you're 100% right, smithing is a money maker.

Almost, but not quite, as OP as battle loot. And if you are a mercenary, you get paid twice -- once when you collect your merc earnings, and once when you sell your loot.

Nothing beats f1 > f3 > go pee > collect loot.

Originalmente postado por Dropdead:

Originalmente postado por Yerahmeel:

Be a blacksmith and become a bagijillionare by lvl 3. No need for any other sources, really. Just lots and lots of firewood.

Too bad you have to run from town to town every .5sec after you've managed to unlock a recipe that prints money... because Town are apparently not made out of it lol.

BUT.... but you're 100% right, smithing is a money maker.

breeder perk is better.

1 win a few wotans from tournaments
2 pick breeder perk
3 full inventory with 100000 horses (ignore herding speed penalty)
sell all horses you get but keep wotans until you have a few hundred wotans..
than sell all horses but wotans.
every 100 wotans in inventory now = 20k/day

(i currently have a little over 500 wotans and 100 million after 4 years.. and i not earned a dime smithing (in fact I sunk nearly 40 mil now in buying stuff to melt down)

Originalmente postado por Rakshasa:

Originalmente postado por Barick:

What are you doing that's such a drain on your wealth?

stop pretending like you don't know how to easily bankrupt yourself. you know how much max tier unit upkeep is. i'll tell you how to ruin the game: only join battles you know you can win, become a mercenary for a dominating faction, upgrade all of your units to max because you didn't take a loss, gather every companion you meet and level them up, garrison your first fief because it's in the middle of a warzone 2 days of riding away from your faction. congrats now you're sitting at 5k-10k denar deficit per day with a 1000 prosperity town if you're lucky and you get the pleasure of sitting in your only fief defending it for the next 4 in game weeks because raganvald is literally on the other side of the map raiding a village with his army.

thus you never take nor become a vassal. independent rule ftw.
1 lord to rule them all.

as for troop upkeep : bandits. especially forest bandits.
powerful as tier 4 fians.
but cost 8 gold not 12.