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Why?
So that he may then appoint himself to the duchy.Otherwise, the ruler has theoretically no chance of becoming a lord unless a duke steps down. A rather rare event.Though I wonder how this applies to realm with elections.Also makes me wonder about dukes who lose their region due to capture: are they still dukes?
I'd rather limit the ruler's power. Better to encourage him to empower himself by giving others (allies) power positions than by hoarding them.
Wait... government members can't become region lords?
This is a bit ridiculous, in my opinion. I can't be both General and a lord?So not only are Generals stuck with the thankless task of ordering around their feckless countrymen and taking the blame when they screw up -- I'm not saying this is the case in my realm, just hypothetically speaking -- but Generals are also unable to at least finance themselves with a region lordship, and have to continually go begging for money?
The end results of this is that people will step down from their position only to be reappointed after they get their lordships. This is against the spirit of the game, but faced with these kind of rules, it will happen.
Lords cannot be appointed. I am not sure what is the spirit of this change, but I fail to see good reasons to maintain it, unless it comes with something else we have yet to see.
Apparently the "it's an unfinished system" part got forgotten.
after the cleanup run today (which should be over by the time I post this) - is this still buggy?