currently, during appointing some lord, I found that all eligible candidates have the same claim strength. when i appointed one of them, locals protested "as they were other nobles with the same claim." i mean LOL 
is there any opportunity that appointment will not cause additional punishment?
*Seriously*? This is really lame. I don't care how realistic it is, that's just another example of penalties being thrown on people for no good reason where there weren't any before. See thread: Acquiring new regions becoming historically harder.
There's no fun in that at all.
Give the region a stat *boost* if the one with the strongest claim is appointed, no change if one of equal claim is appointed, and whatever if the strongest claim(s) are ignored (as long as its reasonable). Penalties no matter what (or almost) just suck.
