I'm not sure it's the best one, though. It will tend to cause Republics (and any realms with regularly-elected rulers) to end up with a scattering of random, probably-unwanted Duchies.
Oh god the infinite number of duchies made off of rural regions
An imperial region, sure. But please, for god's sake, not a new duchy.
don't know why you are complaining about the nature of the new system, as opposed to bugs in the new system
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unless you are saying... you want to be duke.. forever, someone else can get to be ruler or lord, but no one else can be both or duke. well, you ain't the duke.... so if there's to be only 1 duke position and you ain't it, then you'll have to boot someone else out of it with whatever means.
Well, yea, the level of bugginess that came with the new estate system is a little frustrating. I'd have expected it to be a little bit more polished before pushed live. Some of the bugginess is just the non-application of new features that I don't really like to begin with, though, so...
And yes, basically I do want to be duke forever. Ruler too, but hey, I chose to put monthly elections, I can suck up an occasional vote fluke now and then. Duke was never a position you had to constantly run for, why should it change with every election now? I chose a theocracy when I seceded namely so that I could appoint myself as duke should something ever cause me to temporarily lose rulership. And it doesn't seem like making dukeships become a monthly election issue was part of the plan with this change, but rather a by-product of the wish to have an unbroken chain of command. To which I reply: bring imperial regions back.
After all, the reason Fheuv'n even exists is because Guillaume, as a duke, managed to sway a bunch of Enweilian lords to swear fealty to his tiny remote outskirt city and then sway them into participating in the creation of a new independent realm in a quest for glory. It was always about the lords' allegiance to Guillaume, which is why he rewarded his lords with political power (unlike the knights, who did not bring in regions for the new realm). A new ruler may speak for the realm to foreigners, but that's no reason to cut the feudal ties binding all of the lords to Guillaume. Mind you, this new chain of command thing didn't !@#$ things up and create a new duchy and appointed a new duke, that was another issue. But this chain of command thing makes it a lot more complicated to fix things and return them to the way they used to be before the bug butt!@#$ed our feudal hierarchy by magically creating a new duchy and arbitrarily choosing a new duke.
You are not precisely a lower-down...
I ain't, but that doesn't mean this change will only affect me. I'm rather confident in my ability to retake, next month, what I had last month. Assuming Midnight of the South doesn't just TO Fheuvenem and put an end to our misery right now.
But I just picture myself in the days, striving for rulership against longstanding incumbents or mutes. With this change, dukes will become a much more "natural" choice for rulership, regardless of how active and deserving they are. I would have had a much harder time climbing up the ladder.
You will.
Really? You don't need to be part of the duchy to appoint yourself as its duke? Well that's reassuring. Thank god. This means that assuming we survive 'till then, next month I should be able to return things to the status quo.
However, it will mean temporarily losing Sandlakes, and having to re-appoint myself as lord of it. A lot of hassle for no good reason.
