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Tom once said it was acceptable:

http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,6241.0/msg,136246.html

This has been discussed before:

http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,5149.msg119708.html#top
http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,4009.msg100477.html#top

OK, there may still be some glitches in the allegiance fix sections of the cleanup script. I'll try and take a look at that today or tomorrow.

Not much I can do about your case, since you've named a new Duke. Do let me know if you notice any other similar issues.

Thanks! There are no more issues to fix for this specific case I think.

Update: I have managed to select a New Duke this morning.

This is not intended, but is a completely separate issue.

When did this secession happen?

The secession of Rhîntaurardh on EC, last friday.

After secession my character was ruler, Margravine and had an estate, but lost the title of Duke. At turn change the autofix script kicked her out of the lordship and estate and now she's only ruler. She does not seem to be available to be named Duke.

I'm also confused about who can be named Duke. In a secession where my character was both margrave and duke, it lost these positions after becoming ruler. Is this intended?

To what end?

What else would they do? Why would a realm go to war if there is no conceivable gain to be had?

I fear alliance wide channels would be detrimental, as they could cement alliance blocks even more tightly than they are right now. Alliances that want to talk to each other already have options through guilds and religions; these are not perfects, but their imperfections are related to IC contingencies and are actually helpful to the feeling of the game.

A fully continent-wide channel however, with absolutely no way for anyone to hide anything posted there, would be interesting. It would be a great channel for RPs and might even foster additional conversation.

Care should be taken that this does not mean every noble is automatically added to everyone's contact list.

All sufficiently advanced evilness is indistinguishable from success.

About damn time! Sirion broken down into single city realms? Good.

Sirion has 8 duchies and 58 nobles - that would amount to ~7 nobles per single-city realm.

Removed April's fools

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2014 Jan. 26th (peak count)	880	577	304
2014 March 1st (Beginning of freezing)	825	539	288
April 10th	797	541	293
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2014 June 16th (WI created)	784	491	277
2014 July 3rd	757	460	248
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Can IVF fight off the Riombaran 150+ soldier units, or all the crazy SF? Rio can walk in and crush nearly anyone other than Thalmarkin, or some grand coalition. Morek could do the same against anyone close. (Assuming they can get organized.)

Also, concerning this: IVF and Nothoi together could take on Riombara and it would be a fair fight. Morek is disproportionately huge compared to its neighbours though, I'll give you that, but Luria is a match.

If those northern peninsula regions were rogue, nobably would probably have noticed the Lurians land until too late. As it was, you almost took Nifelheim. And you could have created a new realm up there, with a little bit of creativity and some focus.

As you said, we could have. We tried and we failed; this is a game where failure can occur. This doesn't mean it should be made easier; the game already provides ways for barely held regions to be taken away. There is no need for the devs to do the player's jobs.

Riombara and Morek both take the nobles/region ration to the extreme, and both are bad for the game, overall. Neither on has any nearby enemies, and neither one likely will, until they collapse. They are simply too big and powerful. All those extra regions producing gold for the dukes provides crazy incomes.

If you want to reduce again the gold that can be extracted from lordless regions, I'd be fine with that - actually I'd be fine with making them cost money if need be.

Riombara isn't powerful because it has many empty regions - that's confusing cause and effect.

I do agree that we need to have motivations for war, and taking land is a great motivation. But when situations like Morek/Riombara arise, the absurdity of the situation is just shoved in your face. Something needs to be done about it. And the players need to come up with some other reason for lopping the heads off their enemies than "I want your land". Like maybe "Your god is evil. And your horse smells funny, too."

And we can thank Thalmarkin for creating for launching a great war in Beluaterra. Having more rogue regions would change nothing. In Dwilight I think it would actually stop the war - it would create space for the western refugees to create a realm, which they would probably do, and then all the fighting would stop for a while.

adopting a policy of leaving all of those extra regions completely devoid of infrastructure in a deliberate campaign to make settling the more difficult,

Is that a thing that's actually happening?

In Riombara it's not. Riombara has been trying for a while to launch a new colony in these lands - there is simply no one willing to go. We were trying to ensure the infrastructure was good actually and it's been ruled illegal.

In Morek Luria is actually trying to take regions away from Morek. There was a serious raid where Luria bought a bunch of regions some weeks ago. It failed because Morek defended itself - and I expect they would. Even if the regions were rogue, I would expect Morek to assault any Lurians that would try to establish themselves in their backyard.

We already have a low enough density that grabbing land is not hard. If we make it any easier we will remove any incentive for war and we will be left with realms with no enemies and no reasons to make any.