I'm always worried that you'd never be able to complete all of them because you're traveling too much.

Time only passes during kingdom management, map travel, and resting. So unless automated kingdom management can somehow interfere with your quests, it shouldn't be a problem.

Can't help you there. I actually love timed quests. They make things more urgent and exciting.

Sounds worth it... Now to deal with tjose timed quests...

If you automate it, you can't get the super secret ending where you romance the fairy lady. That's about it, as far as I remember.

If you automate it, do you get less-than-desirable outcomes? Does it lock you out of "the best" ending or something? I'm just thinking of home hilariously bad ME3 is if you go by the default settings of the game....

Thanks for the analytical preview. I like the aesthetics etc. of the game. Interested to see what the final version will be like. I'm interested but still difficult to tell whether this will turn out good enough for me to get it.

My bad, I guess I didn't give Kingmaker enough attention at the time. I was already put off by the timer and the sudden addition of (timed) management officially killed it for me. I wonder why this fluff keeps creeping into RPGs. You can argue that mechanics like crafting, item maintenance and upgrade, terrible as they are, have some connection to the RPG world, but why this? They rarely get enough work to stand on their own and even if they do, you don't really hear people going "hey check out that new Warhammer title, I hear there's some sick management system implemented."

That's not exactly true. You can and should automate Kingdom Management in Kingmaker. In fact, I question the sanity of anyone who doesn't do it about as much as that of developers who keep putting these bloated, superfluous, barely functioning systems in their games.Speaking of, you hear they're planning to put some management systems into Rogue Trader now? Ain't that swell.

I enjoy stronghold quests, stronghold management - not so much (unless I'm playing Stronghold, heh). Stronghold management in PoE 1 was a low-effort stretch-goal fulfilment, but at least it was an optional side activity, while ship management and naval combat in PoE 2 were both terrible and unavoidable. Kingdom management in Kingmaker was much more involved, but still not my thing and worst of all - unavoidable. At least in WotR you can skip campaign management, altough this locks you out of some of the better endings.