What to do for cash / growth in early game between wars while staying honorable, bandits are rare? [Floris, if relevant]

I've played Warband for over a hundred hours, a bit under half of it on Floris, and I'm having difficulty with this routinely. I've got a party of 59, not enough fame for vassalage, and I'm milling around the Kindom of Rhodoks as the faction I'd like to be with. The lords are rarely offering me quests and the Rhodok lands are chock full of manhunters so the bandit population is pretty culled.

This is the early game, so I can't set up enterprises in town, and if there's no war on in my faction, there's no mercing, so there's no stable income and I have to hope I get a good fight or quest each week to pay for my crew. So what can I do in this downtime?

Village quests outside of bandit defense are basically 'spend all your money on us' so that's out of the question for now. A dishonorable character can raid a village or caravan, but in my case I'll be encouraging my medic Jeremus to ditch me. Should I just try adventuring around another part of the world hoping I can find some more bandit fights?

Or would it be better off to ditch Jeremus, find someone who doesn't mind raiding to be my medic instead, and just tank the honor hits with some honorable deeds?

Submitted July 30, 2018 at 06:09AM by PoliteTimesplitter https://ift.tt/2LT39lq