Hello, I've played majesty 2 and enjoyed it(yes i abused the trading posts in it). I played this as the King at a LAN game and thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of the interesting antics that happened was building structures close together blocked the walking path of the Player heroes and my villages, to fix this the players forced attacked the flour mill allowing the players to return to their grinding. fortunately through this we discovered a minor bug where i couldnt build a replacement flour mill but thankfully the map has mills around it so i still got my income from them, we all laughed about this after. Another thing was me as King was spamming the world chat for donations towards 'OUR' kingdom due to the lack of suficient income from players through the marketplace and tavern, this was fun with a bit of light humor mixed in resulting in players using the player trade to give me gold allowing me to upgrade and build faster, i'm not sure if the market prices increases for each upgrade teir for equipment or not but having them increase a lot would benefit the king more.
I cant wait to play this game at the next LAN and i encourage you all to play it with a 5-12 people LAN as it is a lot of fun. Previous experience in majesty isnt required but is helpful as there arent hints telling you what to do.