Arena Tournaments help. Raising villages of factions at war with yours. Various ways should work. As far as the load times go, that sucks. I personally have not seen long load times.
Basically my first "real" playthrough and I'm trying to create my own kingdom for the first time, so I need 900 renown. Currently sitting at 405. Right now I've just been killing any bandits and running around declaring on the minor factions (Hidden hand, Ghilman, Wolfskins etc.) who are independent to get some bigger battles, but it'd still
Imperial Towns have a tournament preference that will be familiar for anyone coming from other Mount and Blade games. Sword and Board (Shield), Spear on Horseback, Archers, a good all around tournament with a notable absence of any two handed weapons, besides the odd spear. They tend to emphasize one handed weapons.
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