That's a nice idea, but doesn't seem to work in practice. In my experience, most region lords don't see this as having power, they see it as an extra chore they have put up with.
the elusive autosell..
And you end up with situations like in Kindara, where a Duchess is apparently logging in enough to not auto-pause, but refuses to answer messages or appoint a lord to one of her rurals for more than a month. There's 1000 bushels of food stuck in that rural with no way to get it out while her city starves, and the duchess can't even be banned because she's a royal.
assassination. auto-de-fey? (though.. i guess that doesn't work against dukes, does it... hey.. maybe it should? though not sure how that works either, seeing as there's no "no duchy" setting for a region... make the priest a duke? of the region only? too powerful? replacing the duke wholesale would certainly be too powerful. boot the duke from the duchy? thus... duchy intact, just position vacant? rather powerful too) ruler change lordship rules to elections...
